Program for Day 2, August 5th 2006      (View Day 1)

Location: Room A, Fortaleza Convention Center
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Session 5: Physics and Folding (Chair - Goran Neshich)
9:00 Jeffery G. Saven. Theoretical Methods for the Design and Engineering of Proteins. (invited presentation)
9:30 Ilan Samish, Oksana Kerner, David Kaftan, Eran Goldberg, Avigdor Scherz. Datamining the Fourth Dimension from Crystal Structures: Structure-Function-Entropy Relationships in Membrane Proteins. (more)
9:50 Anna C.V. Johansson, Erik Lindahl. Simulation of Amino Acid Solvation Structure in Transmembrane Helices and Implications for Membrane Protein Folding. (more)
10:10 Ingo Ruczinski, Kevin W. Plaxco, Tobin R. Sosnick. On the Precision of Experimentally Determined Protein Folding Rates and [Phi]-Values. (more)
10:30 Coffee Break
11:00 Janet M. Thornton Gemma L. Holliday, Alex Gutteridge, James Torrance, Gail J. Bartlett, Daniel E. Almonacid, Noel M.O'Boyle, Peter Murray-Rust, John B. O. Mitchell. Using the Three Dimensional Structures of Enzymes to Understand Catalysis. (invited presentation)
Session 6: Disorder (Chair - Thomas Lengauer)
11:30 Zsuzsanna Dosztányi, Márk Sándor, István Simon. Prediction of Order and Disorder at the Domain Level. (more)
11:50 Avner Schlessinger, Marco Punta, Burkhard Rost. Identifying Natively Unstructured Proteins Using Residue Contact Predictions. (more)
12:10 Lunch and Laptop Session 2
15:00 Discussion 2: What are the greatest overlooked challenges in computational structural biology and what are the most over-studied low impact areas? (Chair - Steven Brenner)
Session 7: Protein-Protein Interactions and Domains (Chair - Steven Brenner)
15:45 Bingding Huang, Michael Schroeder. Integrate the Degree of Burial and Conservation of Surface Residues into Protein-protein Docking. (more)
16:05 Stefano Lise, David T Jones, Alice Walker-Taylor. Docking protein domains in contact space. (more)
16:25 Scooter Willis. Predicting Co-evolving Pairs in Pfam Based on Mutual Information of Mutation Events Measured Along the Phylogenetic Tree. (more)
16:45 Coffee Break
Session 8: Networks and Graphs (Chair - Rafael Najmanovich)
17:15 Frank P DiMaio, Jude W Shavlik, George N. PhillipsA Probabilistic Approach to Protein Backbone Tracing in Electron Density Maps. (more)
17:35 Antonio del Sol, Marcos J. Arauzo-Bravo, Dolors Amoros, Ruth Nussinov. Network Robustness and Modularity of Protein Structures in the Identification of Key Residues for the Allosteric Communications. (more)
17:55 Steven Brenner. The RNA Structural World. (invited presentation)
18:25 Closing remarks
18:30 The End: Shuttle back to Hotel.
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