TY - JOUR
T1 - Message from the ISCB
T2 - ISCB Ebola award for important future research on the computational biology of Ebola virus
AU - Karp, Peter D.
AU - Berger, Bonnie
AU - Kovats, Diane
AU - Lengauer, Thomas
AU - Linial, Michal
AU - Sabeti, Pardis
AU - Hide, Winston
AU - Rost, Burkhard
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/2/15
Y1 - 2015/2/15
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 and three-dimensional 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$2000, at its July 2016 annual meeting (ISCB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2016, Orlando, FL).
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 and three-dimensional 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$2000, at its July 2016 annual meeting (ISCB Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2016, Orlando, FL).
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84937512004&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv019
DO - 10.1093/bioinformatics/btv019
M3 - Review article
C2 - 25644272
AN - SCOPUS:84937512004
SN - 1367-4803
VL - 31
SP - 616
EP - 617
JO - Bioinformatics
JF - Bioinformatics
IS - 4
ER -
