Report on the 2011 Critical Assessment of Function Annotation (CAFA) meeting

Technical Report · Wed Jan 21 04:00:00 EST 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1167523· OSTI ID:1167523

Friedberg, Iddo ^[1]

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1. Miami Univ., Oxford, OH (United States); Miami University Oxford, Ohio

The Critical Assessment of Function Annotation meeting was held July 14-15, 2011 at the Austria Conference Center in Vienna, Austria. There were 73 registered delegates at the meeting. We thank the DOE for this award. It helped us organize and support a scientific meeting AFP 2011 as a special interest group (SIG) meeting associated with the ISMB 2011 conference. The conference was held in Vienna, Austria, in July 2011. The AFP SIG was held on July 15-16, 2011 (immediately preceding the conference). The meeting consisted of two components, the first being a series of talks (invited and contributed) and discussion sections dedicated to protein function research, with an emphasis on the theory and practice of computational methods utilized in functional annotation. The second component provided a large-scale assessment of computational methods through participation in the Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA). The meeting was exciting and, based on feedback, quite successful. There were 73 registered participants. The schedule was only slightly different from the one proposed, due to two cancellations. Dr. Olga Troyanskaya has canceled and we invited Dr. David Jones instead. Similarly, instead of Dr. Richard Roberts, Dr. Simon Kasif gave a closing keynote. The remaining invited speakers were Janet Thornton (EBI) and Amos Bairoch (University of Geneva).

• Research Organization: Miami Univ., Oxford, OH (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Biological and Environmental Research (BER) (SC-23)
• DOE Contract Number: SC0006807
• OSTI ID: 1167523
• Report Number(s): Final Report DOE--MIAMIOH-06807
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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