TY - JOUR
T1 - ISCB Ebola Award for Important Future Research on the Computational Biology of Ebola Virus
AU - Kovats, Diane
AU - Karp, Peter D.
AU - Berger, Bonnie
AU - Lengauer, Thomas
AU - Linial, Michal
AU - Sabeti, Pardis
AU - Hide, Winston
AU - Rost, Burkhard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Karp PD et al.
PY - 2015/1/15
Y1 - 2015/1/15
N2 - Speed is of the essence in combating Ebola; thus, computational approaches should form a significant component of Ebola research. As for the development of any modern drug, computational biology is uniquely positioned to contribute through comparative analysis of the genome sequences of Ebola strains as well as 3-D protein modeling. Other computational approaches to Ebola may include large-scale docking studies of Ebola proteins with human proteins and with small-molecule libraries, computational modeling of the spread of the virus, computational mining of the Ebola literature, and creation of a curated Ebola database. Taken together, such computational efforts could significantly accelerate traditional scientific approaches. In recognition of the need for important and immediate solutions from the field of computational biology against Ebola, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) announces a prize for an important computational advance in fighting the Ebola virus. ISCB will confer the ISCB Fight against Ebola Award, along with a prize of US$2,000, at its July 2016 annual meeting (ISCB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2016, Orlando, Florida).
AB - Speed is of the essence in combating Ebola; thus, computational approaches should form a significant component of Ebola research. As for the development of any modern drug, computational biology is uniquely positioned to contribute through comparative analysis of the genome sequences of Ebola strains as well as 3-D protein modeling. Other computational approaches to Ebola may include large-scale docking studies of Ebola proteins with human proteins and with small-molecule libraries, computational modeling of the spread of the virus, computational mining of the Ebola literature, and creation of a curated Ebola database. Taken together, such computational efforts could significantly accelerate traditional scientific approaches. In recognition of the need for important and immediate solutions from the field of computational biology against Ebola, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) announces a prize for an important computational advance in fighting the Ebola virus. ISCB will confer the ISCB Fight against Ebola Award, along with a prize of US$2,000, at its July 2016 annual meeting (ISCB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) 2016, Orlando, Florida).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84931291669&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.12688/f1000research.6038.1
DO - 10.12688/f1000research.6038.1
M3 - Editorial
AN - SCOPUS:84931291669
SN - 2046-1402
VL - 4
JO - F1000Research
JF - F1000Research
ER -
