The rapid advancement of computational techniques brings bioinformatics to the forefront in the race to understand the functions and disease mechanisms at a molecular level. The cutting-edge computational methods have been developed to solve the challenging problems in biology, including tertiary structure prediction, complex structural interaction and energy prediction, deep learning-based simulations of biomolecules, etc. With the structures of biomolecules in hand, atomic simulations, coarse-grained models, and other computational methods have significantly accelerated scientific discoveries in biological and medical research and successfully implemented them to study health-related problems.

This workshop aims to bring bioinformatics researchers from multi-disciplinary backgrounds together to share expertise in diverse aspects of structure prediction and applications for proteins and RNAs. The themes will be centered around bioinformatics methods in biological and medical research and will range from: structure perdition, new computational and bioinformatics methodologies and algorithms enabling multi-omics integration, platforms to facilitate data sharing and applications of multi-omics approaches. We may also invite several keynote speakers during the workshop.

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We strongly encourage authors to submit their original studies in structure prediction and applications for proteins and RNAs for this workshop. Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to,the following:

  • Protein/RNA tertiary structure prediction (or with experimental restraints)

  • Protein/RNA structure simulation with experimental restraints

  • Protein/RNA tertiary structure design

  • Protein-protein/DNA/RNA complex structure prediction

  • Complex structural interaction energy prediction

  • Coarse-grained method

  • Deep learning-based method

  • Drug design

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Please submit a full-length paper (upto 8 page IEEE 2-column format) through the online submission system (you can download the format instruction here (http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.) Electronic submissions (in PDF or Postscript format) are required. Selected participants will be asked to submit their revised papers in a format to be specified at the time of acceptance.

Workshop submission site
2022 International Workshop on computational methods to structure prediction and applications for proteins and RNAs

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Due date for full workshop papers submission	October 5, 2022
Notification of paper acceptance to authors	November 5, 2022
Camera-ready of accepted papers	November 21, 2022
Workshops	December 6-9, 2022

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1.Yunjie Zhao, Professor, Central China Normal University, China

    Email: yjzhaowh@mail.ccnu.edu.cn

2.Bengong Zhang, Professor, Wuhan Textile University, China

    Email: bgzhang@wtu.edu.cn

3.Zhou Gong, Associate Professor, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

    Email: gongzhou@wipm.ac.cn

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• Lin Li, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at El Paso, USA

• Jian Wang, Assistant Professor, Penn State University College of Medicine, USA

• Yazhou Shi, Associate Professor, Wuhan Textile University, China

• Weiwei Gao, Associate Professor, Dalian University of Technology, China

• Lijian Yang, Associate Professor, Central China Normal University, China

• Xuefeng Liu, Associate Professor, Chengdu University of Technology, China