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Structural bioinformatics is shaping its community

[3D-BioInfo logo]A new initiative to form an ELIXIR community of structural bioinformaticians in Europe, named 3D-BioInfo, has been proposed. A launch meeting is being held on 19 October 2018 in Basel, Switzerland, and anyone interested in participating is invited to attend.

Structural bioinformatics has a broad impact across the life sciences and provides tools to archive, visualise, analyse, annotate and predict molecular structures. The science of structural bioinformatics is traditionally very strong in Europe offering many software tools, methodologies and databases, as well as community-wide prediction challenges. Its applications cover research activities from structural biology to drug discovery and personalised medicine. It is envisaged that establishing an ELIXIR Community will facilitate deeper integration of the broad range of tools and services already available.

See here for more information.