Message from the ISCB: ISCB Ebola award for important future research on the computational biology of Ebola virus.

Bioinformatics
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UNLABELLED: 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).

CONTACT: dkovats@iscb.org or rost@in.tum.de.

Year of Publication
2015
Journal
Bioinformatics
Volume
31
Issue
4
Pages
616-7
Date Published
2015 Feb 15
ISSN
1367-4811
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DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btv019
PubMed ID
25644272
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