{Please pass on!} The Automated Function Prediction meeting will take place as a Special Interest Group (SIG) satellite meeting of ISMB 2005 in Detroit, MI, USA. Current speakers include: Michael Sternberg, Imperial College, London; Olivier Lichtarge, Baylor College of Medicine; Russ Altman, Stanford University; Patricia Babbitt, UCSF and Adam Godzik, The Burnham Institute. We are also seeking talk abstracts and poster abstracts from researchers in the field of automated function prediction. Abstracts are due April 26, 2005, a week from today. An abstract submitted to the AFP will be in the conference proceedings, but is not considered a publication, so you may publish your results elsewhere as well. With that in mind, Protein Science journal will publish selected talks from the meeting in a special section devoted to the topic of automated function predction. Talks and posters are sought in, but not limited to, the following topics: * Function prediction using sequence based methods. This would include "classic" methods such as detection of functional motifs and inferring function from sequence similarity. * Function from genomic information: prediction by genomic location; locus comparison with other organisms; function gain and loss. * Phylogeny based methods * Function from molecular interactions * Function from structure * Function prediction using combined methods * "Meta-talks" discussing the limitations and horizons of computational function prediction. * Assessing function prediction programs For more information please see: http://ffas.burnham.org/AFP Abstract submission instructions and templates can be found at: http://ffas.burnham.org/AFP/Speakers http://ffas.burnham.org/AFP/posters We are looking forward to seeing you in June. Iddo Friedberg, in the name of the AFP organizing committee. -- Iddo Friedberg, Ph.D. The Burnham Institute 10901 N. Torrey Pines Rd. La Jolla, CA 92037, USA Tel: +1 (858) 646 3100 x3516 Fax: +1 (858) 646 3171 http://ffas.ljcrf.edu/~iddo ------------------------------------- Automated Protein Function Prediction Meeting, June 24, 2005 http://ffas.burnham.org/AFP