Dear ENCODE-DREAM Challenge Participants, We are happy to announce the results of the Conference Round of the ENCODE-DREAM Challenge. There were a total of 33 teams that participated in this round and we saw some very nice results. The overall results are now posted on section "5 -Conference Round? of the Challenge website at: https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn6131484/wiki/405275. The individual TF/Cell type results are posted on the subsequent sub-pages.   Congratulations to autosome.ru and J-TEAM for their top performances. Team members are listed below and you can read more about their performance on section ?6 - Top Performing Teams? of the Challenge website at: https://www.synapse.org/#!Synapse:syn6131484/wiki/402031   Moving forward with the Challenge, we will send out a follow up email detailing information on the next phase of the challenge and information on the DREAM Conference.   Conference Round Top Performing Teams **autosome.ru** * Andrey Lando (Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia) * Ilya Vorontsov (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) * Valentina Boeva (Institut Cochin, Paris, France) * Grigory Sapunov (Intento, https://inten.to) * Irina Eliseeva (Institute of Protein Research, Russian Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Russia) * Vsevolod Makeev (Vavilov Institute of General Genetics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) * Ivan Kulakovskiy (Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia) **J-TEAM** * Jens Keilwagen (Institute for Biosafety in Plant Biotechnology, Julius Kühn-Institut (JKI) - Federal Research Centre for Cultivated Plants, D-06484 Quedlinburg, Germany) * Stefan Posch (Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany) * Jan Grau (Institute of Computer Science, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, D-06099 Halle (Saale), Germany) Kind Regards, ENCODE-DREAM Organizers