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Castrense Savojardo is Associate Professor of Bioinformatics at the Department of Pharmacy and Biotechnology, University of Bologna. His research focuses on the development of computational methods based on artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict protein structure, function, and localization, with a special emphasis on membrane proteins and the impact of mutations. He is actively involved in the European infrastructure ELIXIR, serving as national deputy leader of the Tools platform and contributing to the 3DBioInfo Community and the Machine Learning Focus Group.

Emidio Capriotti is an Associate Professor at the University of Bologna (Italy). He earned a PhD in Physical Sciences from the University of Bologna, with a scientific background in Structural Bioinformatics. In recent years, his research activity has shifted toward the study of the effects of single-nucleotide variants (SNVs) resulting in single amino acid polymorphisms. He applies computational tools for the analysis of protein three-dimensional structures to predict the impact of single-point protein mutations on protein stability, developing machine learning methods to predict free energy changes upon mutation and to identify pathogenic variants. The main goal of his research is to understand the relationship between genomic variations and disease by leveraging large amounts of data generated by high-throughput techniques. He is particularly interested in designing new disease-specific algorithms and developing novel tools for personal genomics and personalized medicine.

Pier Luigi Martelli is Full professor of Biochemistry at the University of Bologna. His research interests focuses on the computational study of the relation between sequence, structure, and function in proteins and on the development of analysis tools based on Machine Learning (deep neural networks, hidden Markov models, support vector machines) freely available to the scientific community (www.biocomp.unibo.it/predictors) and integrated with the tool ecosystem of ELIXIR. He is currently the coordinator of the Interoperability platform of ELIXIR-IT.