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Carnegie Mellon Researchers to Host Second Annual Biological Language Conference
The event, hosted by Carnegie Mellon's Centre for Biological Language Modeling in cooperation with the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, will showcase ongoing results in understanding protein dynamics, function and structure by combining language technologies with computational biology.
Two years ago, the National Science Foundation awarded $9 million to Carnegie Mellon and University of Pittsburgh researchers and their colleagues at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston University and the National Canadian Research Council to advance this new field, which combines the use of computational tools, machine learning methods and high-level language processing to better understand how proteins work inside cells. As in languages, where there are sequences of letters that fall into patterns that make them understandable, there are sequences of amino acids in proteins that can be read to understand their structure, dynamics and function. Sequences of amino acids and their constituents can be thought of as syllables or words that have particular properties.
"This conference will serve as a forum of communication for people working on the language technology aspect of computational biology with people who bring other approaches," said Roni Rosenfeld, associate professor of computer science and co-chair of the event.
For more information on the conference, see http://flan.blm.cs.cmu.edu/blc2004/
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