Rita Casadio is a
Professor
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of
Biochemistry
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at the
University of Bologna
The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...
.
Career
Her work in
machine learning
Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence.
Machine ...
has been used for
protein structure prediction
Protein structure prediction is the inference of the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence—that is, the prediction of its secondary and tertiary structure from primary structure. Structure prediction is different ...
and methods from her group have been highly ranked in international competitions, such as the
Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction (CASP) and the
Critical Assessment of Function Annotation
The Critical Assessment of Functional Annotation (CAFA) is an experiment designed to provide a large-scale assessment of computational methods dedicated to predicting protein function. Different algorithms are evaluated by their ability to predict ...
(CAFA).
Awards and honours
She was elected a
Fellow
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In learned or professional societies, it refers to a privileged member who is specially elected in recognition of their work and achievements.
Within the context of higher education ...
of the
International Society for Computational Biology
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a scholarly society for researchers in computational biology and bioinformatics. The society was founded in 1997 to provide a stable financial home for the Intelligent Systems for Mole ...
(ISCB) in 2020 for outstanding contributions to the fields of
computational biology
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and
bioinformatics
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.
See also
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ELIXIR
ELIXIR (the European life-sciences Infrastructure for biological Information) is an initiative that will allow life science laboratories across Europe to share and store their research data as part of an organised network. Its goal is to bring t ...
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Living people
Italian bioinformaticians
Academic staff of the University of Bologna
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century women scientists
Women biochemists
Computational biologists
Women computational biologists
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