Project aims
Overall objective of IDPfun research is to address major current and future challenges in IDP field: to improve our understanding of IDP biological functions and translate this knowledge into major international databases for wider scientific community benefit. During the project lifetime we will solve a set of major problems in protein science and bioinformatics that are highly innovative:
Scientific objectives
- Creating novel ways to detect IDPs and their functions from sequence, structure and literature
- Classifying IDP function exhaustively in the context of evolution and sequence/structure features
- Understanding and modeling the mechanisms driving IDP function through conformations and their transitions
Technological objectives
- Translate the knowledge of IDP function into major databases (e.g. UniProt)
- Define ontologies for IDP classification
- Develop common guidelines for reliable IDP annotation
Societal objectives
- Raise awareness for IDPs in life sciences at large
- Train researchers to use novel IDP resources
- Improve the impact of European science in Latin America and vice versa
- Promote scientific excellence and best practices
Scientific focus
IDPfun project consists of five interlinked work packages, arranged in order to cover the ground from the current state of the art of IDP detection and classification, towards the definition of functional mechanisms and their translation towards wider scientific community by deploying gathered knowledge in public international databases, such as UniProt.
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Training, Management & Dissemination
WP5
WP5 will provide the dissemination-training-management layer covering the entire project. Meetings and visits are intended to recapitulate project advances and to concentrate resources providing network-wide training. Dissemination training schools will disseminate project objectives and results…