Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Title: Novel Computational Tools for Structural Bioinformatics

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • MIPT (Russia (Russian Federation)) - Department of Control and Applied Mathematics - Vadim Strijov

• Duration: 2016 - 2020

• Start year: 2016

• Abstract : The general scientific objectives of the forthcoming collaboration are the new developments of computational tools for structural bioinformatics. In particular, we plan to collaborate on several subjects: 1. Development of tractable approximations for intractable combinatorial problems in structural biology. 2. Development of new computational tools for scattering experiments. 3. Machine learning for structural bioinformatics.

• University of Stony Brook, lab of Dima Kozakov (USA). We have been collaborating on the development of novel protein docking methods.

• University of Vilnius, department of Bioinformatics (Lithuania). We have been collaborating on the development of novel protein docking methods.

• KU Copenhagen (Denmark), department of Chemistry. We collaborate on the integrative structural biology approaches.

• Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain), Bioinformatics Unit. We collaborate on the development of computational methods for protein flexibility.

• Francis Crick Institute, London (UK), Biomolecular Modelling Laboratory. We collaborate on the development of flexible protein docking methods.

Our team has obtained the PHC Gilibert grant for a 2-year collaboration with the Vilnius University (Lithuania). Our partner is the Department of Bioinformatics, http://www.bti.vu.lt/en/departments/department-of-bioinformatics.