Virtual Proteins will participate in the final the Capstone workshop of the NETIAM project to be held in Oxford, 14-15 March 2005. This final workshop in the NETIAM series will draw together and examine the findings of the four thematic workshops held in 2004 for which reports are now available at www.netiam.net. . This event closes the international NETIAM project (F6).

COMPLEXITY AT MOLECULAR LEVEL

This topic underpins much modern research in the biological and material sciences. These subjects are well known to pose mathematical modelling challenges on several length scales, of which the micron scale is generally crucial. However, micron-scale phenomena can be fully addressed only by using information from the molecular level. Examples are the rearrangement of the complex system of protein molecules during the phase change that is crucial to spinning spider silk, and the targetting of different body tissues by drugs, where molecular constituents can distort into complex geometrical shapes. The workshop will consider how to address such questions in the light of ab initio quantum mechanical calculations and new ideas for network-based atomistic and gene modelling.

More details about the presentation of Virtual Proteins at the last NETIAM conference in Eindhoven in December 2004 at Smits Institute NETIAM project