Note special day and time!
Tuesday, 26 February 2013 at 11:00 am
Room 1400 Biomedical and Physical Sciences Bldg.
Refreshments at 10:45 am
Speaker: Yaoqi Zhou, School of Informatics, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis
Title: Shedding light on the dark matter in the universe of protein structures and protein-RNA interactions
Abstract:
Most biological activities are directed and regulated by proteins. Despite
significant efforts, the structures and functions for the majority of proteins
remain unknown. On one hand, increasing structure coverage of protein sequences
since 2007 has not led to any expansion of the structure space itself. On the
other hand, function annotations continue to utilize antiquated homology-searching
tools that have limited sensitivity. In this talk, I will discuss two new
bioinformatic tools that take you deeper into the protein structure space and
protein-RNA interaction space that none has ever been there before.