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Gianluca Pollastri

Gianluca Pollastri

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Computer Science

D-Index
38
Citations
7658
World Ranking
10092
National Ranking
34

Overview

Gianluca Pollastri is affiliated with University College Dublin in Ireland. Their research primarily spans the fields of Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with a strong emphasis on Molecular Biology. Additional subfields include Computational Theory and Mathematics, Biophysics, Artificial Intelligence, and Materials Chemistry.

The scientist's work focuses on several main topics, reflecting interdisciplinary approaches within life sciences and computational methods. These topics include:

  • Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
  • RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
  • Computational Drug Discovery Methods
  • Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research
  • Cell Image Analysis Techniques

Pollastri has published extensively in multiple scientific venues, with repeated contributions to the following journals and platforms:

  • Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Bioinformatics
  • Nature Methods
  • Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics

Notable recent publications include the following papers:

  • "Deep learning methods in protein structure prediction," 2020, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • "DOME: recommendations for supervised machine learning validation in biology," 2021, Archivio Istituzionale della Ricerca (Universita Degli Studi Di Milano)
  • "SCLpred-EMS: subcellular localization prediction of endomembrane system and secretory pathway proteins by Deep N-to-1 Convolutional Neural Networks," 2020, Bioinformatics
  • "Protein subcellular localization prediction tools," 2024, Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal
  • "Prediction of polyproline II secondary structure propensity in proteins," 2020, Royal Society Open Science

Frequent collaborators in Gianluca Pollastri's research include:

  • Di Meng
  • Mirko Torrisi
  • Ian Walsh
  • Dmytro Fishman
  • Tiina Titma

Best Publications

  • Improving the prediction of protein secondary structure in three and eight classes using recurrent neural networks and profiles.

    Gianluca Pollastri;Darisz Przybylski;Burkhard Rost;Pierre Baldi

  • Exploiting the past and the future in protein secondary structure prediction.

    Pierre Baldi;Søren Brunak;Paolo Frasconi;Giovanni Soda

  • Deep Architectures and Deep Learning in Chemoinformatics: The Prediction of Aqueous Solubility for Drug-Like Molecules

    Alessandro Lusci;Gianluca Pollastri;Pierre Baldi

  • Porter: a new, accurate server for protein secondary structure prediction

    Gianluca Pollastri;Aoife Mclysaght

  • Towards the Improved Discovery and Design of Functional Peptides: Common Features of Diverse Classes Permit Generalized Prediction of Bioactivity

    Catherine Mooney;Niall J. Haslam;Gianluca Pollastri;Denis C. Shields

  • Prediction of coordination number and relative solvent accessibility in proteins.

    Gianluca Pollastri;Pierre Baldi;Pietro Fariselli;Rita Casadio

  • Deep learning methods in protein structure prediction.

    Mirko Torrisi;Gianluca Pollastri;Quan Le

  • The principled design of large-scale recursive neural network architectures--dag-rnns and the protein structure prediction problem

    Pierre Baldi;Gianluca Pollastri

  • A neural network approach to ordinal regression

    Jianlin Cheng;Zheng Wang;G. Pollastri

  • DOME: recommendations for supervised machine learning validation in biology

    Ian Walsh;Dmytro Fishman;Dario Garcia-Gasulla;Tiina Titma

  • Prediction of contact maps by GIOHMMs and recurrent neural networks using lateral propagation from all four cardinal corners.

    Gianluca Pollastri;Pierre Baldi

  • CPPpred: prediction of cell penetrating peptides.

    Thérèse A. Holton;Gianluca Pollastri;Denis C. Shields;Catherine Mooney

  • Spritz: a server for the prediction of intrinsically disordered regions in protein sequences using kernel machines.

    Alessandro Vullo;Oscar Bortolami;Gianluca Pollastri;Silvio C. E. Tosatto

  • Accurate prediction of protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility by consensus combiners of sequence and structure information.

    Gianluca Pollastri;Alberto J M Martin;Catherine Mooney;Alessandro Vullo

  • Porter, PaleAle 4.0: high-accuracy prediction of protein secondary structure and relative solvent accessibility

    Claudio Mirabello;Gianluca Pollastri

  • Bidirectional dynamics for protein secondary structure prediction

    Pierre Baldi;Søren Brunak;Paolo Frasconi;Gianluca Pollastri

  • A two-stage approach for improved prediction of residue contact maps

    Alessandro Vullo;Ian Walsh;Gianluca Pollastri

  • Distill: a suite of web servers for the prediction of one-, two- and three-dimensional structural features of proteins.

    Davide Baù;Alberto J. M. Martin;Catherine Mooney;Alessandro Vullo

  • CSpritz: accurate prediction of protein disorder segments with annotation for homology, secondary structure and linear motifs

    Ian Walsh;Alberto J. M. Martin;Tomàs Di Domenico;Alessandro Vullo

  • Prediction of Short Linear Protein Binding Regions

    Catherine Mooney;Gianluca Pollastri;Denis C. Shields;Niall J. Haslam

  • Ab initio and template-based prediction of multi-class distance maps by two-dimensional recursive neural networks

    Ian Walsh;Davide Baù;Alberto J M Martin;Catherine Mooney

Frequent Co-Authors

Pierre Baldi
Pierre Baldi University of California, Irvine
Denis C. Shields
Denis C. Shields University College Dublin
Paolo Frasconi
Paolo Frasconi University of Florence
Søren Brunak
Søren Brunak University of Copenhagen
Silvio C. E. Tosatto
Silvio C. E. Tosatto University of Padua
Rita Casadio
Rita Casadio University of Bologna
Jianlin Cheng
Jianlin Cheng University of Missouri
Jeremy C. Simpson
Jeremy C. Simpson University College Dublin
Norman E. Davey
Norman E. Davey Institute of Cancer Research
Burkhard Rost
Burkhard Rost Technical University of Munich

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