DIMACS Special Year on Computational Molecular Biology

离散数学和理论计算机科学中心DIMACS将举办“计算分子生物学特别年”，以跟进其非常成功的“分子生物学数学支持特别年”。特别年的动机是生物学和信息科学之间的接口方面的重大发展：以新颖和多样化的形式提供大量数据，需要信息科学家的专业知识；提供新技术和需要与基础算法研究相结合的强大实验工具；以及开发新的数学和计算工具，使人们能够在比以前复杂得多的水平上理解生物过程。特别年将包括研讨会、访问者，以及来自全国各地的博士后研究员和研究生的参与。活动将围绕一系列研讨会组织：不同生物数据的整合，序列基序识别，全基因组比较，学习随机过程，蛋白质结构(最新计算进展和未来方向)，生物信息学中基于系统的建模，几何搜索，基因表达数据分析，信号转导中的计算问题，蛋白质结构比较和预测评估，以及DNA拓扑学。该奖项是与斯隆基金会共同资助的。NSF的资金将专门用于支持来自代表不足的少数族裔的年轻科学家的出席。

DIMACS, the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science, will run a ``Special Year on Computational Molecular Biology'' to follow up on its highly successful ``Special Year on Mathematical Support for Molecular Biology.'' The special year is motivated by major developments at the interface between biology and information science: The availability of massive amounts of data in novel and diverse forms, requiring the expertise of information scientists; the availability of new technologies, powerful experimental tools that need to be integrated with fundamental algorithmic research; and the development of new mathematical and computational tools that make it possible to understand biological processes at a much more complex level than before. The special year will include workshops, visitors, and the involvement of postdoctoral fellows and graduate students from around the country. Activities will be organized around a series of workshops: Integration of Diverse Biological Data, Sequence Motif Recognition, Whole Genome Comparison, Learning Stochastic Processes, Protein Structure (Recent Computational Advances and Future Directions), System-based Modeling in Bioinformatics, Geometric Searching, Analysis of Gene Expression Data, Computational Issues in Signal Transduction, Protein Structure Comparison and Prediction Assessment, and DNA Topology. This award is co-funded with the Sloan Foundation. NSF funds will specifically be used to support the attendance of young scientists from underrepresented minorities.