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. 2004 Aug-Oct;5(6-7):480–490. doi: 10.1002/cfg.414

Workshop—Predicting the Structure of Biological Molecules

Damian Counsell 1,✉
PMCID: PMC2447431  PMID: 18629142

Abstract

This April, in Cambridge (UK), principal investigators from the Mathematical Biology Group of the Medical Research Council's National Institute of Medical Research organized a workshop in structural bioinformatics at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. Bioinformatics researchers of several nationalities from labs around the country presented and discussed their computational work in biomolecular structure prediction and analysis, and in protein evolution. The meeting was intensive and lively and gave attendees an overview of the healthy state of protein bioinformatics in the UK.

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