Pier Luigi Martelli

Curriculum Vitae

PERSONAL INFORMATION Pier Luigi Martelli

[email protected] www.biocomp.unibo.it/gigi

Sex Male | Date of birth 07 January 1972 | Nationality Italian

EDUCATION AND TRAINING

1998–2001 PhD in Physics EQF level 8 University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Advanced Physics,Biophysics, Computational Methods

1991–1997 Master Degree in Physics EQF level 7 University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy) Physics, Mathematics

WORK EXPERIENCE

01 March 2006–Present Permanent researcher in Biochemistry (BIO/10) University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Research activity in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Biocomputing Group of the University of Bologna. Lecturer for the“In silico biology” course at the International Master Degree in Bioinformatics

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01 October 2005–30 September Contract Researcher (Young Researcher contract) for the FIRB2003 Project “LIBI: 2006 International Laboratory of Bioinformatics”. University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Research activity in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Biocomputing Group of the University of Bologna

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01 August 2003–31 July 2006 Contract Researcher (Assegno di Ricerca) for the FIRB2001 Project “Bioinformatics for Genomics an Proteomics” University of Bologna, Bologna (Italy)

Research activity in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Biocomputing Group of the University of Bologna. Business or sector

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02 May 2002–30 April 2006 Fellow Researcher. Fellowship from the CNR Target Project on Molecular Genetics National Council for Research (CNR), Roma (Italy)

Research activity in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Biocomputing Group of the University of Bologna.

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01 March 2001–28 February 2002 Fellow Researcher INBB Consortium- Istituto Nazionale di Biostrutture e Biosistemi, Roma (Italy)

Research activity in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Biocomputing Group of the University of Bologna.

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PERSONAL SKILLS

Mother tongue(s) Italian

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Teaching Activities ▪ Academic Year 2000-2001: Course module "Modellistica Molecolare" at University of Ferrara, Degree in Biology. ▪ April 2003: Special Course on "HMMs, Basics and applications to molecular biology" at Bioinformatics Group of Sanofi-Synthélabo (Labège, Toulouse, Francia) ▪ Academic Years 2002-2006: Course on "Fisica Computazionale Applicata alle Macromolecole" at University of Trento, Degree in Biomedical Physics and Technology ▪ April 2006: Assistant to the course "Pills of Bioinformatics". Universidad Tecnica Particular de Loja (Ecuador) ▪ May 2006: Module on "Advanced computational biology” at Sabanci University (Tuzla-Istanbul, Turkey) ▪ Academic Years 2004-2008: Special Course on "Probabilistic models for biological sequences” at Complutense University in Madrid (Spain), Master in Bioinformatics. ▪ January 2012: Special course in "Basic and Avdanced Bioinformatics" at Sultan Qabuus University (Muscat, Oman)

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▪ October 2012: Lectures on "Programming in Perl for NGS data analysis". RGB NET (Cost Action) Training School on "Rabbit and Pig Genome analysis" (Norwich, UK) ▪ June 2013: Lectures on "NGS Data Analysis" at the training school of PON project "Applicazione di biotecnologie molecolari e microrganismi protecnologici per la caratterizzazione e valorizzazione delle filiere lattiero-casearia e prodotti da forno di produzioni tipiche." (S. Margherita al Belice, AG) ▪ 2006-current: Teaching activity at the International Master Degree in Bioinformatics of the University of Bologna (courses: Bio-medical databases, Computational Biology, Models of Biological Systems, Systems and In Silico Biology)

Research Activity Protein folding and theoretical molecular Biophysics Since 1996, PLM has been involved in theoretical investigations on problems related to the protein folding by means of computational tools, mainly based on neural networks and genetic algorithms. In particular, the analysis of the predictive properties of feed-forward neural networks enabled the definition of an entropic criterion for selecting segment in alpha-helical structure that are likely to be the nucleation sites for the protein folding. Development of tools for the prediction of protein structure and function

Since 1997 PLM is involved in the design and development of tools based on machine learning techniques for the prediction of structural and functional features of proteins ,starting from their residue sequences. In particular, PLM designed and implemented hybrid systems of neural networks (NN) and hidden Markov models (HMM) able also to elaborate the information contained in sequence profiles out of multiple sequence algnments. These tools have been adopted for developing predictors for

-) the topology of membrane proteins, both with alpha-helical and beta-barrel structures;

-) the bonding state of cysteine residues in proteins;

-) the presence and localization of GPI-anchors;

-) the presence and localization of target peptides and signal peptides. Prediction of the relationship between SNPs and diseases

PLM collaborated in the implementation of SNPs&GO , a tool based on SVM for predicting whether a residue mutation is conducive to human disease. For the first time, this tool exploits the information contained in functional annotations encoded with the Gene Ontology terms. Several independent evaluations assessed that SNPs&GO is one of the best performing tools, among those available for the specific task at hand.

Prediction of the subcellular localization of eukaryotic proteins

PLM collaborated in the implementation of BaCelLo, a decision tree of support vector machines (SVM) able to discriminate up to four different localization in animals and fungi and up to five localizations in plants. BaCelLo represents the state of the art in the prediction of subcellular localization of eukaryotic proteins.

Protein modeling and investigations on the structure-function relationship

PLM studies the structure-function relationship using tools for protein modelling, molecular dynamics simulations, and molecular docking. In collaboration with experimental groups PLM achieved the following results: -) the computation of the three-dimensional models of proteins from thermophilic organisms, in order to elucidate the features conducive to thermostability; -) the modelling and dynamic simulations of enzymes immobilized in membranes in bioreactors, in order to study the effects of immobilization on the structural stability; -) the simulation of the destabilizing effect of the double mutation at positions 7 and 14 on the sperm whale myoglobin;

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-) the simulation of the mobility of tryptophan residues in the beta-galactosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus and the correlation with its fluorescence emission properties; -) the discovery and characterization of a fusogenic peptide in the glycoprotein H of Herpes simplex virus; -) the modelling of the C-terminal segment of the subunit B of the glyceraldheide-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Spinacea olearia; this peptide is particularly important for the regulation of the enzyme in relation to dark/light metabolisms.

Present and Past Collaborations ▪ University of Copenhagen (Denmark): Prof. Anders Krogh ▪ McGill University (Montreal, Canada): Prof. James Coulton ▪ BIOSAPIENS EU Consortium ▪ CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai (China): Dr. Christine Nardini ▪ CHIRON Vaccines SpA: Dr. Giulio Ratti ▪ CNR Institute for Protein Biochemistry and Enzimology in Naples: Dr. Carlo Raia, Prof Mosè Rossi ▪ CNR Insitute for Biomembranes and Bioenergetics in Bari: Prof. Graziano Pesole ▪ Second University of Napoli: Prof. Gustavo Damiano Mita, Prof. Gaetano Irace ▪ University of Milano-Bicocca: Prof. Paolo Tortora ▪ University of Rome "La Sapienza": Prof. Anna Tramontano ▪ University of Ferrara: Prof. Carlo Bergamini

Honours and awards The paper: Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Krogh A and Casadio R (2002) A sequence-profile-based HMM for predicting and discriminating beta barrel membrane proteins- Bioinformatics 18: S46-S53 presented at the 10th International Conference on "Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology" (ISMB02), Edmonton Canada, 3-7/8/2002 won the SGI best paper award

Publications 1. Compiani M, Fariselli P, Martelli P and Casadio R - An entropy criterion to detect minimally frustrated intermediates in native proteins - Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 95(16): 9290-9294 (1998) 2. Compiani M, Fariselli P, Martelli PL and Casadio R -Neural Networks to Study Invariant Features of Protein Folding- Theor Chem Acc 101: 21-26 (1999)

3. Casadio R, Compiani M, Fariselli P, Martelli PL - A Data Base of Minimally Frustrated Alpha Helical Segments Extracted from Proteins According to an Entropy Criterion- ISMB 7: 68-76 (1999)

4. Casadio R, Compiani M, Fariselli P, Jacoboni I and Martelli PL - Neural Networks predict protein folding and structure: artificial intelligence faces biomolecular complexity. SAR and QSAR in env res 11: 149-182 (2000)

5. Sirangelo I, Tavassi S, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Irace G - The effect of tryptophanyl substitution on folding and structure of myoglobin. Eur J Biochem 267: 3937-3945 (2000)

6. Bismuto E, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Irace G - Tryptophanyl fluorescence lifetime distribution of hypertermophilic beta-glycosidase from molecular dynamics simulation: a comparison with the experimental data. Protein Sci 9: 1730-1742 (2000)

7. Jacoboni I, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Compiani M, Casadio R - Predictions of protein segments with the same amino acid sequence and different secondary structure: a benchmark for predictive methods- Proteins 41: 535-544 (2000)

8. El-Sherif H, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Portaccio M, Bencivenga U, Mita DG -Urease immobilization on chemically grafted nylon membranes. Part 1: Isothermal characterization- J Mol Catal B: Enzym 14: 15-19 (2001)

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9. Jacoboni I, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, De Pinto V, Casadio R -Prediction of the transmembrane regions of beta barrel membrane proteins with a neural network based predictor- Protein sci 10: 779-787 (2001)

10. El Masry MM, De Maio A, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Moustafa AB, Rossi S, Mita DG -Influence of the immobilization process on the activity of beta galactosidase bound to nylon membranes grafted with glycidyl methacrylate. Part 1. Isothermal behavior- J Mol Catal B:Enzym 16: 175-189 (2001)

11. Casadio R, Martelli PL, Giordano A, Rossi M, Raia CA -A low-resolution 3D model of the tetrameric alcohol dehydrogenase from Sulfolobus solfataricus-Protein eng 15:215-223 (2002)

12. Bismuto E, Martelli PL, De Maio A, Mita DG, Irace G, Casadio R - Effect of molecular confinement on internal enzyme dynamics: Frequency domain fluorometry and molecular dynamics simulation studies- Biopolymers (Biospectroscopy) 67:85-95 (2002)

13. Casadio R, Compiani M, Facchiano A, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Jacoboni I, Rossi I -Protein structure prediction and biomolecular recognition: from protein sequence to peptidomimetic design with the human beta 3 integrin- SAR QSAR Envir Res 13:473-486 (2002)

14. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Krogh A, Casadio R -A sequence-profile-based HMM for predicting and discriminating beta barrel membrane proteins- Bioinformatics 18: S46-S53 (2002)SGI BEST PAPER AWARD at ISMB02 (Edmonton, Canada, August 2002)

15. Fariselli P, Martelli P, Casadio R -A neural network based method for predicting the disulfide connectivity in proteins- Knowledge based intelligent information engineering systems and allied technologies (KES 2002), (Damiani E et al., eds), Vol 1, pp 464-468, IOS Press, Amsterdam (2002)

16. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Malaguti L, Casadio R. -Prediction of the disulfide bonding state of cysteines in proteins with hidden neural networks- Protein Eng. 15:951-953 (2002)

17. Fariselli P, Finelli M, Marchignoli D, Martelli PL, Rossi I, and Casadio R -MaxSubSeq: an algorithm for segment-length optimization. The case study of the transmembrane spanning segments- Bioinformatics 19:500-505 (2003)

18. Casadio R, Fariselli P, Finocchiaro G, Martelli PL -Fishing new proteins in the twilight zone of genomes: The test case of outer membrane proteins in Escherichia coli K12, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and other Gram-negative bacteria- Protein Sci 12: 1158-1168 (2003)

19. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R -An ENSEMBLE machine learning approach for the prediction of all-alpha membrane proteins- Bioinformatics 19: I205-I211 (2003)

20. Occhipinti E, Martelli PL, Spinozzi F, Corsi F, Formantici C, Molteni L, Amenitsch H, Mariani P, Tortora P, Casadio R -3D structure of Sulfolobus solfataricus carboxypeptidase developed by molecular modeling is confirmed by site-directed mutagenesis and small angle X-ray scattering- Biophys J 85:1165-1175 (2003)

21. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Tasco G, Casadio R -The prediction of membrane protein structure and genome structural annotation- Compar Funct Genom 4:406-409 (2003)

22. Casadio R, Fariselli P, Martelli PL -In silico prediction of the structure of membrane proteins: Is it feasible?- Brief Bioinf 4:341-348 (2003)

23. Fariselli P, Zauli A, Rossi I, Finelli M, Martelli PL, Casadio R -A neural network method to improve prediction of protein-protein interaction sites in heterocomplexes- Proc 13th IEEE Workshop on Neural Networks for Signal Processing (NNSP'03): 33-41 (2003)

24. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R -Prediction of disulfide-bonded cysteines in proteomes with a hidden neural network- Proteomics 4:1665-1671 (2004)

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25. Durante D, Casadio R, Martelli PL, Tasco G, Portaccio M, De Luca P,Bencivenga U, Rossi S, Di Martino S, Grano V, Diano N, Mita DG -Isothermal and non-isothermal bioreactors in the detoxification of waste waters polluted by aromatic compounds by means of immobilised laccase from Rhus vernicifera- J Mol Catal B: Enzym 27:191-206 (2004)

26. Gianni T, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Campadelli-Fiume G -An internal fusion peptide in herpes simplex virus glycoprotein H enables fusion required for infection of cells- J Virol 79:2931-2940 (2005)

27. Fariselli P, Finelli M, Rossi I, Amico M, Zauli A, Martelli PL, Casadio R -TRAMPLE: the transmembrane protein labelling environment- Nucl Acids Res ; 33:W198-W201 (2005)

28. Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -A new decoding algorithm for hidden Markov models improves the prediction of the topology of all-beta membrane proteins- BMC Bioinformatics 6,Suppl 4:S12 (2005)

29. Occhipinti E, Bec N, Gambirasio B, Baietta G, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Balny C, Lange R, Tortora P -Pressure and temperature as tools for investigating the role of individual non-covalent interactions in enzymatic reactions Sulfolobus solfataricus carboxypeptidase as a model enzyme- Biochim Biophys Acta 1764:563-572 (2006)

30. Amico M, Finelli M, Rossi I, Zauli A, Elofsson A, Viklund H, von Heijne G, Jones D, Krogh A, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -PONGO: a web server for multiple predictions of all-alpha transmembrane proteins- Nucleic Acids Res 34(Web server issue):169-172 (2006)

31. Pierleoni A, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R -BaCelLo: a balanced subcellular localization predictor- Bioinformatics 22:e408-e416 (2006)

32. Casadio R, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Tasco G -Thinking the impossible: how to solve the protein folding problem with and without homologous structures and more- Methods Mol Biol 350:305-320 (2007)

33. Pierleoni A, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R -eSLDB: eukaryotic Subcellular Localization DataBase- Nucleic Acids Res 35:D208-212 (2007)

34. Tress ML, Martelli PL, Frankish A, Reeves GA, Wesselink JJ, Yeats C, Olason PL, Albrecht M, Hegyi H, Giorgetti A, Raimondo D, Lagarde J, Laskowski RA, Lopez G, Sadowski MI, Watson JD, Fariselli P, Rossi I, Nagy A, Kai W, Storling Z, Orsini M, Assenov Y, Blankenburg H, Huthmacher C, Ramirez F, Schlicker A, Denoeud F, Jones P, Kerrien S, Orchard S, Antonarakis SE, Reymond A, Birney E, Brunak S, Casadio R, Guigo R, Harrow J, Hermjakob H, Jones DT, Lengauer T, Orengo CA, Patthy L, Thornton JM, Tramontano A, Valencia A -The implications of alternative splicing in the ENCODE protein complement- Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:5495-54500 (2007)

35. Montanucci L, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R -Robust determinants of thermostability highlighted by a codon frequency index capable of discriminating thermophilic from mesophilic genomes- J Proteome Res 6:2502-2508 (2007)

36. Fermani S, Sparla F, Falini G, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Pupillo P, Ripamonti A, Trost P -The molecular mechanism of thioredoxin regulation in photosynthetic A2B2-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase- Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 104:5495-5500 (2007)

37. Bartoli L, Capriotti E, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -The pros and cons of predicting protein contact maps- Methods Mol Biol 413:199-218 (2007)

38. Sommaruga S, De Palma A, Mauri PL, Trisciani M, Basilico F, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Tortora P, Occhipinti E -A combined approach of mass spectrometry, molecular modeling, and site-directed mutagenesis highlights key structural features responsible for the thermostability of Sulfolobus solfataricus carboxypeptidase- Proteins 71:1843-1852 (2008)

39. Casadio R, Martelli PL, Pierleoni A -The prediction of protein subcellular localization from sequence: a shortcut to functional genome annotation- Brief Funct Genomic Proteomic 7:63-73

(2008)

40. Montanucci L, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -Predicting protein thermostability changes from sequence upon multiple mutations- Bioinformatics 24:i190-195 (2008)

41. Bartoli L, Capriotti E, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -The pros and cons of predicting protein contact maps- Methods Mol Biol413:199-217 (2008)

42. Montanucci L, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Rossi I, Casadio R -In Silico Evidence of the Relationship Between miRNAs and siRNAs- Open Appl Inf Journal 2:9-13 (2008)

43. Pierleoni A, Martelli PL, Casadio R -PredGPI: a GPI anchor predictor- BMC Bioinformatics 9:392 (2008)

44. Calabrese R, Capriotti E, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -Functional annotations improve the predictive score of human disease-related mutations in proteins- Hum Mutat 30:1237-1244 (2009)

45. Bartoli L, Montanucci L, Fronza R, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Carota L, Donvito G, Maggi GP, Casadio R -The bologna annotation resource: a non hierarchical method for the functional and structural annotation of protein sequences relying on a comparative large-scale genome analysis- J Proteome Res 8:4362-4371 (2009)

46. Fariselli P, Savojardo C, Martelli PL, Casadio R -Grammatical-restrained hidden conditional random fields for bioinformatics applications- Algorithms Mol Biol 22:4-13 (2009)

47. Bartoli L, Martelli PL, Rossi I, Fariselli P, Casadio R -The Prediction of Protein-Protein Interacting Sites in Genome-Wide Protein Interaction Networks: The Test Case of the Human Cell Cycle- Curr Protein Pept Sci 11:601-608 (2010)

48. Fontanesi L, Martelli PL, Beretti F, Riggio V, Dall'Olio S, Colombo M, Casadio R, Russo V, Portolano B -An initial comparative map of copy number variations in the goat (Capra hircus) genome- BMC Genomics 11:639 (2010)

49. Fontanesi L, Beretti F, Martelli PL, Colombo M, Dall'Olio S, Occidente M, Portolano B, Casadio R, Matassino D, Russo V -A first comparative map of copy number variations in the sheep genome- Genomics 97:158-165 (2011)

50. Martelli PL, D'Antonio M, Bonizzoni P, Castrignano`T, D'Erchia AM, D'Onorio De Meo P, Fariselli P, Finelli M, Licciulli F, Mangiulli M, Mignone F, Pavesi G, Picardi E, Rizzi R, Rossi I, Valletti A, Zauli A, Zambelli F, Casadio R, Pesole G -ASPicDB: a database of annotated transcript and protein variants generated by alternative splicing- Nucleic Acids Res 39:D80-85 (2011)

51. Pierleoni A, Martelli PL, Casadio R -MemLoci: predicting subcellular localization of membrane proteins in Eukaryotes- Bioinformatics 27:1224-1230 (2011)

52. Pantaleo MA, Astolfi A, Indio V, Moore R, Thiessen N, Heinrich MC, Gnocchi C, Santini D, Catena F, Formica S, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Pession A, Biasco G -SDHA Loss-of-Function Mutations in KIT- PDGFRA Wild-Type Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Identified by Massively Parallel Sequencing- J Natl Cancer Inst 103:983-987 (2011)

53. Piovesan D, Luigi Martelli P, Fariselli P, Zauli A, Rossi I, Casadio R -BAR-PLUS: the Bologna Annotation Resource Plus for functional and structural annotation of protein sequences- Nucleic Acids Res 39:W197-W202 (2011)

54. Pierleoni A, Indio V, Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -MemPype: a pipeline for the annotation of eukaryotic membrane proteins- Nucleic Acids Res 39:W375-W380 (2011)

55. Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Alhamdoosh M, Martelli PL, Pierleoni A, Casadio R-Improving the prediction of disulfide bonds in Eukaryotes with machine learning methods and protein subcellular

localization- Bioinformatics 27:2224-2230 (2011)

56. Pippucci T, Benelli M, Magi A, Martelli PL, Magini P, Torricelli F, Casadio R, Seri M, Romeo G -EX- HOM (EXome-HOMozygosity): a proof of principle- Hum Hered (2011, in press)

57. Casadio R, Vassura M, Tiwari S, Fariselli P, Martelli PL -Correlating disease related mutations to their effect on protein stability: a large scale analysis of the human proteome- Hum Mutat 72:45-53 (2011)

58. Pantaleo MA, Nannini M, Astolfi A, Biasco G; GIST Study Group Bologna -A distinct pediatric-type gastrointestinal stromal tumor in adults: potential role of succinate dehydrogenase subunit A mutations- Am J Surg Pathol 35:1750-1752 (2011)

59. Fontanesi L, Galimberti G, Calò DG, Fronza R, Martelli PL, Scotti E, Colombo M, Schiavo G, Casadio R, Buttazzoni L, Russo V -Identification and association analysis of several hundred single nucleotide polymorphisms within candidate genes for backfat thickness in Italian Large White pigs using a selective genotyping approach- J Anim Sci 90:2450-2464 (2012)

60. Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Balzani E, Casadio R -Predicting cancer-associated germline variations in proteins- BMC Genomics 13, Suppl 4:S8 (2012)

61. Fontanesi L, Martelli PL, Scotti E, Russo V, Rogel-Gaillard C, Casadio R, Vernesi C -Exploring copy number variation in the rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) genome by array comparative genome hybridization- Genomics 100:245-251 (2012)

62. Juritz E, Fornasari MS, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Casadio R, Parisi G -On the effect of protein conformation diversity in discriminating among neutral and disease related single amino acid substitutions- BMC Genomics 13, Suppl 4:S5 (2012)

63. Fontanesi L, Schiavo G, Galimberti G, Calò DG, Scotti E, Martelli PL, Buttazzoni L, Casadio R, Russo V -A genome wide association study for backfat thickness in Italian Large White pigs highlights new regions affecting fat deposition including neuronal genes- BMC Genomics 13:583 (2012)

64. Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Piovesan D, Martelli PL, Casadio R -Machine-learning methods to predict protein interaction sites in folded proteins- Lect Notes Comp Sci 7548:127-135 (2012)

65. Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -Prediction of disulfide connectivity in proteins with machine learning methods and correlated mutations- BMC Bioinformatics 14, Suppl 1:S10

66. Indio V, Martelli PL, Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Casadio R -The prediction of organelle- targetingpeptides in eukaryotic proteins with Grammatical-Restrained Hidden Conditional Random Fields- Bioinformatics 29:981-988 (2013)

67. Piovesan D, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Profiti G, Zauli A, Rossi I, Casadio R -How to inherit statisticallyvalidated annotation within BAR+ protein clusters- BMC Bioinformatics 14 Suppl 3:S4 (2013) 68. Di Lena P, Wu G, Martelli PL, Casadio R, Nardini C -MIMO: an efficient tool for molecularinteraction maps overlap- BMC Bioinformatics15;14:159 (2013) 69. Capriotti E, Calabrese R, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Altman RB, Casadio R -WS-SNPs&GO: a webserver for predicting the deleterious effect of human protein variants using functional annotation- BMCGenomics14 Suppl 3:S6 (2013) 70. Martelli PL, Fontanesi L, Piovesan D, Fariselli P, Casadio R -Mapping and Annotating ObesityrelatedGenes in Pig and Human Genomes-Protein Pept Lett. (in press, 2013) 71. Savojardo C, Fariselli P, Martelli PL, Casadio R -BCov: a method for predicting β-sheet topologyusing sparse inverse covariance estimation and integer programming-Bioinformatics (in press,2013) 72. Piovesan D, Profiti G, Martelli PL, Fariselli P, Fontanesi L, Casadio R -SUS-BAR: a database of pigproteins with statistically validated structural and functional annotation-Database (Oxford) (in

press, 2013)

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