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The ABZ 2021 Meeting was held virtually on May 19, 2021, at the Faculty. The first of its kind, this international conference gathered more than 200 scientists from many disciplines to specifically address progress in research involving Z-DNA and Z-RNA. 

On March 10, 2021, a scientific cooperation agreement was signed between the members of the «Genetics of cardiovascular diseases» consortium

On February 2, 2021 an online round table "Genetics of cardiovascular diseases" was held. It was dedicated to the genetics of cardiovascular diseases, the formation of a consortium in this research area and preparations for the signing of an agreement on scientific cooperation. 

On January 25-30, 2021 the International Conference “Mathematics. A computer. Education ”in the online format, within which Alexey Shaitan, Researcher of the International Laboratory of Bioinformatics, presented a report on the article“ Modeling and Molecular Design of Protein and Nucleic Acid Complexes.

Fedor Pavlov, a research intern at the International Bioinformatics Laboratory, gave a presentation at the IEEE BIBM  2020 international conference, which was held online December 16-19, 2020. At the Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics (MABM) workshop, he presented a paper "Recognition of DNA Secondary Structures as Nucleosome Barriers with Deep Learning Methods," published in co-authorship with Maria Poptsova.

Maria Poptsova, head of the International Laboratory of Bioinformatics and associate professor of the Big Data and Information Retrieval School, spoke at the AI Journey 2020 conference on artificial intelligence with a presentation “Deep Learning in Genomics”.

Scientists at the Higher School of Economics have proposed a way to improve the accuracy of finding Z-DNA – the sections of a molecule that are left-handed rather than right-handed. To do so, they used neural networks and a dataset of more than 30,000 experiments done by different laboratories around the world.