Section: Scientific Foundations

Sequence and Structure Modeling

This track concerns the search for relevant (e.g. functional) spatial or logical structures in macromolecules, either with intent to model specific spatial structures (secondary and tertiary structures, disulfide bounds, ...) or general biological mechanisms (transposition, ...). In the framework of language theory and combinatorial optimization, we address various types of problems: design of grammatical models on biological sequences and machine learning of grammatical models from sequences; efficient filtering and model matching in data banks; protein structure prediction.

Corresponding disciplinary fields are language theory, algorithmic on words, machine learning, data analysis and combinatorial optimization.