Predicting protein function is an ongoing challenge with many different methods being developed to tackle this in recent years. In a recent study published inBMC BioinformaticsPerkins and colleagues describe DomFun, a Ruby gem that looks at the association between separate protein domains and function before combining them at the protein level to generate protein-function predictions.
Biplab Kumar Datta is an Editorial Board Member ofBMC Public Health. He is an applied microeconomist working in the fields of global health and public health economics. After serving the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for nearly three years as a Prevention Effectiveness Fellow, he joined Augusta University as an Assistant Professor in the Institute of Public and Preventive Health.
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