Current Working Groups for the ROC

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Formal Ontology and Integration with OBO

• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu - Convener
• Barry Smith (SUNY, Buffalo) - phismith@buffalo.edu
• Karen Eilbeck (University of Utah) – keilbeck@genetics.utah.edu
• Suzanne Lewis (University of California, Berkeley) – suzi@fruitfly.org
• Thomas Bittner (SUNY, Buffalo) – bittner3@buffalo.edu
• Colin Batchelor (Royal Society of Chemistry) - BatchelorC@rsc.org
• Michel Dumontier (Carleton University)

Liaisons to Sequence Ontology

• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Eric Westhof (Université Louis Pasteur) - E.Westhof@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr
• Jim Brown (North Carolina State University) - james_brown@ncsu.edu

Base-Phosphate Interactions

• Judit Sponer (Masaryk University) - judit@ncbr.chemi.muni.cz - Convener
• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Jiri Sponer (Masaryk University) - sponer@ncbr.chemi.muni.cz
• Jesse Stombaugh (Bowling Green State University) - jstomba@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Craig Zirbel (Bowling Green State University) – zirbel@bgsu.edu

Base Stacking

• Francois Major (Université de Montréal) - francois.major@umontreal.ca – Convener
• Philippe Thibault (Université de Montréal) - thibaup@iro.umontreal.ca
• Eli Hershkovits (Georgia Institute of Technology) - eli@bme.gatech.edu

Backbone Conformation

• Jane Richardson (Duke University) - jsr@kinemage.biochem.duke.edu -Convener
• Helen Berman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
• John Westbrook (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - jwest@ndb.rutgers.edu
• Bohdan Schneider (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - bohdan@rcsb.rutgers.edu
• Laura Murray (Duke University) - ljw7@duke.edu
• Anna Marie Pyle (Yale University) - anna.pyle@yale.edu
• David Micallef (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - micallef@rcsb.rutgers.edu
• Gary Kapral (Duke University) - gary.kapral@gmail.com

Multiple Sequence Alignment

• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Eric Westhof (Université Louis Pasteur) - E.Westhof@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr
• Fabrice Jossinet (Université Louis Pasteur) - f.jossinet@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr
• Peter Clote (Boston College) - clote@bc.edu
• Jim Brown (North Carolina State University) - james_brown@ncsu.edu - Convener
• Franz Lang (Université de Montréal) - Franz.Lang@Umontreal.ca
• Rym Kachouri (Université Louis Pasteur) - R.Kachouri@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr
• Amanda Birmingham (Dharmacon) - amanda.birmingham@thermofisher.com
• Rob Knight (University of Colorado) - rob@spot.colorado.edu
• Gerhard Steger (Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf) - steger@biophys.uni-duesseldorf.de
• Jesse Stombaugh (Bowling Green State University) - jstomba@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Rob Knight (University of Colorado) - rob@spot.colorado.edu
• Francois Major (Université de Montréal) - francois.major@umontreal.ca
• Ali Mokdad (University of California, San Francisco) - mokdadali@hotmail.com

Integrated Motif Identification, Definition, and Annotation

• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu -Convener
• Eric Westhof (Université Louis Pasteur) - E.Westhof@ibmc.u-strasbg.fr
• Luc Jaeger (University of California, Santa Barbara) - jaeger@chem.ucsb.edu
• John Westbrook (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - jwest@ndb.rutgers.edu
• Jane Richardson (Duke University) - jsr@kinemage.biochem.duke.edu
• Francois Major (Université de Montréal) - francois.major@umontreal.ca
• Jesse Stombaugh (Bowling Green State University) - jstomba@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Kevin Keating (Yale University) - kevin.keating@yale.edu
• Craig Zirbel (Bowling Green State University) – zirbel@bgsu.edu
• Helen Berman (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
• Namhee Kim (New York University) - nk401@nyu.edu
• SCOR representative

Biochemical to Structure Mapping - Integrating diverse data to identify motifs

• Dave Mathews (University of Rochester) - david_mathews@urmc.rochester.edu – co-Convener
• Alain Laederach (Stanford University) - alain@helix.stanford.edu - co-Convener
• Doug Turner (University of Rochester) – turner@chem.rochester.edu
• Kevin Weeks (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) - weeks@unc.edu
• Rob Knight (University of Colorado) - rob@spot.colorado.edu
• Neocles Leontis (Bowling Green State University) - leontis@bgnet.bgsu.edu
• Francois Major (Université de Montréal) - francois.major@umontreal.ca
• Sarah Woodson (Johns Hopkins University) - swoodson@jhu.edu

RNA – protein, ligand, ion, etc. interactions

• Jamie Williamson (The Scripps Research Institute) - jrwill@scripps.edu - co-Convener
• Fareed Aboul-ela (Louisiana State University) - faboul@lsu.edu - co-Convener
• Eli Hershkovits (Georgia Institute of Technology) - eli@bme.gatech.edu
• Bohdan Schneider (Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey) - bohdan@rcsb.rutgers.edu
• Ali Mokdad (University of California, San Francisco) - mokdadali@hotmail.com
• Gary Kapral (Duke University) - gary.kapral@gmail.com
• Kristian Rother (IIMCB - Warsaw) - krother@genesilico.pl
• Steve Harvey representative
• Stephen Holbrook representative