From: Gustavo Stolovitzky <gustavo@us.ibm.com>

Date: Sun 23 May 2010 07:19:48 GMT+02:00

To: DREAM N-Z <DREAM_N-Z%IBMUS@us.ibm.com>

Subject: DREAM5 Systems Biology Prediction Challenges

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Call for Systems Biology Predictions
DREAM5: The 5^th DIALOGUE ON REVERSE ENGINEERING ASSESSMENT AND METHODS

Dear Colleague,
 
We would like to invite you to participate in the following DREAM5 challenges

1. Epitope-Antibody Recognition (EAR) Challenge - Predict the binding specificity of peptide-antibody interactions.  
2. TF-DNA Motif Recognition Challenge - Predict the specificity of a Transcription Factor binding to a 35-mer probe.  

These are two of the four challenges that we will be having this year. The remaining two challenges

3. Systems Genetics Challenge - Predict disease phenotypes and infer gene networks from Systems Genetics data  
4. Network Inference Challenge -Infer simulated and in-vivo gene regulatory networks.

will be posted in our website shortly.

To access the data sets, and descriptions of the DREAM5 challenges, please go to http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/dream/index.php/Challenges .
The best performers in these challenges will be invited  to present in the joint RECOMB Systems Biology/Regulatory Genomics/DREAM5 conference.
See http://recombsat.c2b2.columbia.edu/ for details on this conference.

To learn more about the DREAM project, please go to http://wiki.c2b2.columbia.edu/dream/index.php/The_DREAM_Project


DREAM5 Challenge Submission Timeline
Late May, 2010        Call for participation in the challenges. Challenges posted.
September 20, 2010        Predictions Submission Deadline.
Nov 16-20, 2010        RECOMB Systems Biology/Regulatory Genomics/DREAM5 conference. (The DREAM5 conference track is on November 16th.)


Sincerely,

DREAM5 Challenge Organizers:
Gustavo Stolovitzky (chair), IBM Research
Robert J Prill, IBM Research
Julio Saez Rodriguez, Sys Bio Dept, Harvard University.


DREAM5 is part of a project we call the DREAM (Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods) project.  
Its main objective is to catalyze the interaction between experiment and theory in the area of rigorous assessment of systems biology prediction methods.