Protein surface properties using signal processing and statistical tools

Joachim Giard (UCL)

Date and place: Monday December, 13th 12:30 pm at Amphi Stainier (B36)

The applications related to protein docking have a high number of degrees of freedom and, moreover, there is a huge amount of available information about protein structures. Consequently, it is generally time consuming to proceed to protein docking or to screen data bases searching for a protein with some required properties. There is thus a need for fast and efficient algorithms for protein structure analysis. In this presentation, tools to modelize protein surfaces and to analyze protein structures through their surfaces are presented. The possible links between surface properties and the prediction of sites of interest using machine learning tools are developped.