From owner-chemistry@ccl.net Wed Jan 11 16:48:01 2006 From: "IEJMD iejmd|yahoo.com" To: CCL Subject: CCL: Invitation to CoEPrA 2006 - Data Modeling Competition Message-Id: <-30459-060111160505-11732-CYuXm2lI+pPtMhBydKEtYg[*]server.ccl.net> X-Original-From: IEJMD Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 12:04:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 Sent to CCL by: IEJMD [iejmd!A!yahoo.com] CoEPrA 2006 - Comparative Evaluation of Prediction Algorithms http://www.coepra.org/ Dear Colleague, You are cordially invited to participate in the CoEPrA 2006 Competition, which will start on April 17, 2006. CoEPrA (Comparative Evaluation of Prediction Algorithms) is a modeling competition organized to provide an objective testing for various classification and regression algorithms via the process of blind prediction. The problems proposed in the CoEPrA experiment are selected from cheminformatics, drug design, QSAR, bioinformatics, computational biology, medicine, toxicology, microarray gene expression data, and proteomics. The goal of the CoEPrA competition is to advance the algorithms and software for modeling chemical, biological, and medical data, with special emphasis on the prediction of physico-chemical properties and biological activities from molecular descriptors derived from the chemical structure. In addition, CoEPrA will provide a reference database of modeling datasets that can be used to validate and compare new classification and regression algorithms. In each CoEPrA task the participants receive a calibration dataset and a prediction dataset. The model (classification or regression) derived from the calibration dataset is used to predict the dependent variable of the prediction dataset. These predictions must be deposited before the deadline of each task. The Organizers and Evaluators for each CoEPrA task will evaluate all predictions and will anounce the ranking of the participants. For details, see http://www.coepra.org/ Best regards, Ovidiu Ivanciuc ###################################### Ovidiu Ivanciuc Sealy Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology University of Texas Medical Branch, 301 University Boulevard, Galveston, Texas 77555-0857 USA Email: oiivanci%%utmb.edu Email: iejmd%%yahoo.com IEJMD: http://www.biochempress.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com