Computational approaches to noncoding RNAs

描述（由申请人提供）：我们打算组织一个名为“非编码rna的计算方法”的研讨会。研讨会将于2006年7月16日至7月28日在西班牙贝纳斯克科学中心举行。研讨会将重点关注功能性和调节性rna的发现和表征的计算方法。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): We intend to organize a workshop entitled "Computational approaches to noncoding RNAs". The workshop will take place from July 16th to July 28th, 2006 at the Benasque Center for Sciences, Benasque, Spain. The workshop will have a strong focus on computational methods for the discovery and characterization of functional and regulatory RNAs. The main goal of this workshop is to bring together the leaders in the field of RNA informatics. The participants will be mostly computational biologists which have already shown significant contributions in RNA bioinformatics. We will discuss the needs of the field, and will identify the new methods and algorithms that will shape the field in the near future. The workshop will be oriented towards performing actual research on the site. The main topics of discussion will be: (1) Algorithms for the prediction of two and three dimensional RNA structures. Inference of RNA function. (2) Computational methods for the discovery of novel RNA genes and tools for the systematic genomic annotation of RNA genes. (3) RNA structural alignments. (4) RNA homology searches. How to improve RNA similarity searches by taking into account the structure as well as the sequence information. (5) RNA-based phylogenetic methods. (6) ncRNA families and RNA databases.