8:45 Opening remarks - Marvin (Meir) Edelman & Ilan Samish Docking and Assemblies (Chair - David Gilbert), 9:00 – 10:15 9:00 Rob Russell (invited presentation): A Structural Perspective on Protein Interactions & Complexes. (Invited-1) 9:30 Maxim Tortov: Protein-Protein Docking Simulations with Local Backbone Flexibility. (36) 9:45 Q. Jane Su, Orit Foord, Scott Klakamp, Holly Tao, Larry L. Green: Modeling and Simulation of Antibody-Antigen Interaction: An Integrated Approach. (72) 10:00 Yuval Inbar, Haim J. Wolfson, Ruth Nussinov: Prediction of Multi-Molecular Assemblies by Multiple Combinatorial Docking. (76) 10:15 Coffee Break Structure Prediction (Chair - Ilan Samish), 10:45 – Noon 10:45 Ron Unger (invited presentation): Using Accumulated Dot Matrices to Detect RNA and Protein Structures. (Invited-2) 11:15 Andreas Heger & Liisa Holm: Fast Fold Recognition by Consensus Alignment within Transitive Closure. (18) 11:30 Johannes Soeding & Andrei N. Lupas: Homology Search By HMM-HMM Comparison Detects More Than Three Times As Many Remote Homologs as PSI-BLAST or HMMER. (41) 11:45 Jaspreet S. Sodhi, Kevin Bryson, Liam J. McGuffin, Jonathan J. Ward, Lornenz Wernisch, David T. Jones: Predicting the Location and Identity of Protein Functional Sites, Application to Genomic Fold Recognition. (53) 12:00 Lunch + Laptop Session 15:00 Discussion session - Challenges in Docking and Structure Prediction. Chair - David T. Jones Structure Analysis (Chair - Kim Henrick), 16:00 - 16:30 16:00 Eran Eyal, Marvin Edelman, Vladimir Sobolev: The Influence of Crystal Packing on Protein Structure. (15) 16:15 Oxana V. Galzitskaya, Sergiy O. Garbuzynskiy, Bogdan S. Melnik, Michail Y. Lobanov, Alexei V. Finkelstein: Comparison of X-ray and NMR Protein Structures. (22) 16:30 Coffee Break Structure Analysis II (Chair - Vladimr Sobolev), 17:00 - 18:00 17:00 Maxim Chapovalov & Roland L. Dunbrack: Using Statistical Analysis of Electron Density to Evaluate Protein Side-Chain Conformations and Rotamer Disorder. (31) 17:15 Inge Jonassen & William R. Taylor: A Method for Evaluating Structural Models using Structural Patterns. (47) 17:30 Gregorio Fernandez, Christine Kiel, Luis Serrano (invited presentation): In silico Prediction of Protein-Protein Interactions: How and When It Can Work. (Invited-3) 18:00 Break 19:00 Get-together Dinner at Moat House Hotel. Vegeterian and Kosher food is available. Please send requests to: 3dsig@weizmann.ac.il 20:30 Round Table session - The Role of Structural Bioinformatics in Computational Biology. John Moult (chair); Panel members - Geoffrey (Geoff) Barton, Douglas (Doug) Brutlag, Arne Elofsson, John Norvell, Janet Thornton. 22:00 Lights out... Top Day 2