I just realized I never linked to this. CAPRI is the Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions. It is a blind protein docking competition participated in by an international community. Really, the name is because they had to find an acronym that fit the location of the first assessment conference, Capri. This year’s assessment conference was in Barcelona, which was great to visit.
Where am I going? The first talk listed on this page has a write up I did of our group’s recent research on protein docking. (I’m the D. Hall in the author’s list on the talk.) So, if you want to know what I do for fun, you can read it.
It seems we’re quite good at what we’re doing. I’ll rip the first couple rows out of the table from another blog post:
# Human groups: Automatic Servers: Scoring Exp.: 1 Sandor Vajda CLUSPRO Alexandre Bonvin 2 Martin Zacharias HADDOCK Paul Bates
We don’t participate in the “Scoring Experiment”, but if you read the first link, you would know I’m in Sandor Vajda’s group and work on the ClusPro server, which were each evaluated as the best performing over the last couple years of CAPRI in protein docking. Suspend disbelief, but I actually work with some pretty smart people that manage to make me look good. Pretty exciting stuff.
