Project team

The main developers in this project are (in alphabetical order):

• Jaume Bacardit, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University
• Steven Head, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
• Laurence Herbert, School of Computer Science, University of Nottingham
• Natalio Krasnogor, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University
• Pawel Widera, School of Computing Science, Newcastle University

How to cite

To use the server, please cite the papers where these predictors were introduced:

• Prediction of Topological Contacts in Proteins Using Learning Classifier Systems
  Stout, M., Bacardit, J., Hirst, J.D., Smith, R.E. and Krasnogor, N.
  Soft Computing Journal, 13(3):245-258, 2009
  
• Prediction of Recursive Convex Hull Class Assignments for Protein Residues
  Stout, M., Bacardit, J., Hirst, J.D. and Krasnogor, N.
  Bioinformatics, 24(7):916-923, 2008
  
• Coordination number prediction using Learning Classifier Systems: Performance and interpretability
  J. Bacardit, M. Stout, J.D. Hirst, N. Krasnogor and J. Blazewicz
  In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO2006), pp. 247-254, ACM Press, 2006
  

Funding

The development of the prediction methods used in this server has been supported under the following grants:

• Robust Prediction with Explanatory Power for Protein Structure and Related Prediction Problems. EPSRC grant GR/T07534/01
• Principled Application of Learning Classifier Systems to Large-Scale Challenging Datasets (LCSxLCD). EPSRC grant EP/H016597/1