Bilateral Mobility Project
Reference: BMP-....-UNIPD-..
Home partner:
Contact at home instution:
Host partner:
University of Padua, Italy
Contact at host instution:
Prof. Silvio Tosatto
Email: elisa.zambon@unipd.it
Area:
11.9 Others Mathematics, Informatics
Level/Duration:
Doctorate – 10 months
Title:
Bioinformatics & Biocomputing
Description:
Department of Biology
Biocomputing UP is a research group based in Padua (Italy). It works on several aspects of
prediction of protein structure & function employing techniques at the intersection between
biology, medicine, chemistry, physics & computer science. Our aim is to integrate the
development of novel methods and their application to biologically relevant problems.
Current Lines of Research:
several aspects of prediction of protein structure & function employing what is generally
termed, depending on the context, bioinformatics or computational biology.
In particular, the main lines of research include:
Comparative Modelling and Fold Recognition
De Novo Folding and Local Sequence-Structure Relationship
Prediction of Structural Features Linked to Function
Energy Functions for Proteins
Sequence-to-Structure Alignment
Automated Structural Annotation
Detailed Analysis of Selected Protein Families
Structural bioinformatics of disease proteins
Website: http://protein.bio.unipd.it/
Erasmus Mundus Mobility with Asia (EMMA)