Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights

This year, the team would like to indicate in this section two kinds of highlights. Firstly, we would like to emphasize the high quality of some publications obtained by the team in high-level conferences and journals, such as CIKM, ICDM, IJCAI, KDD, and Bioinformatics.

Secondly, the application of KDDK process in the domain of Life Sciences made progress in 2011. Fast algorithms for 3D-shape protein classification and docking using polar Fourier correlations on graphics processor units (GPUs) have been published. The GPU-accelerated version of the Hex docking program (http://hex.loria.fr ) has had some 4,000 downloads in the last year, and the GPU-powered server (http://hexserver.loria.fr ) has performed some 13,000 docking runs for external users.