Submission & Details

Birds of a Feather (BoF)

ISMB 2010 will offer a number of "spontaneous" open meetings for participants to meet and talk about topics of mutual interest.

The "Birds-of-a-feather" (BoF) meetings are a long-standing, highly successful tradition at ISMB. Conference participants are encouraged to submit a topic for discussion to this website and to recruit as many (or as few) interested participants as desired by the topic leader.

The conference organizers have set aside several rooms specifically for birds-of-a-feather meetings. The BoFs will be available on Monday, July 12 (6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m.) and Tuesday, July 13 (1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.)

Birds of a feather submissions are now closed.

ISMB Killer App Award

Submissions for the ISMB Killer App Award should be made online here by Saturday, June 12, 2010.

The ISMB Killer App Award promotes the development of bioinformatics tools and services of substantial practical value to the biological research community.

Chairs: Anita de Waard, Elsevier, USA and Seán O’Donoghue, EMBL, Germany

Submission Schedule

June 12, 2010	Submission Deadline

July 1, 2010	Killer App Finalists Notification

Tuesday, July 13: 11:45 a.m. - 12:40 p.m. Room: 306	Killer App Award Session (Technology Track: TT34)

Killer App Award

We are very pleased to present the first ever ISMB Killer App Award in Boston to the individual or team that presents a tool/system that would be judged to be of most practical benefit to biochemists and molecular biologists

To be eligible, your system must be presented at ISMB 2010 as either a poster or talk, and must be fully functional. To submit your work, complete the online sign-up form mentioning your poster number or talk title, and providing a short explanation (500 words max.) of how your tool benefits today’s busy biologist. Be as specific as you can: if you have done user studies, describe them; if you have anecdotal evidence, mention it; if you have a website or paper detailing the user feedback, include it. If you have it, give user or web access statitics.

A panel of expert judges will select three finalists who will be invited to give a short talk as part of a Technology Track session at ISMB 2010. The winner will receive an Apple iPad and their work will possibly be integrated and featured on Elsevier’s platforms.

The ISMB Killer App Award is generously sponsored by ScienceDirect.

Through its Applications initiative, Elsevier is looking at how, in the contemporary scientific environment, we can meet the challenge to provide efficient search and discovery of scientific content, and create a new publishing ecosystem that is integrated, intelligent, collaborative, trustworthy and open to innovative applications.

Travel Fellowship Information

Funding Information

ISMB 2010 is pleased to announce funding opportunities for students and postdoctoral fellows to present a talk or poster at the conference in Boston, USA. The conference organizers are committed to providing support to as many eligible applicants as possible, although our funding sources are very limited and we regret that we are not able to fund all applicants.

Submission Schedule

Monday, April 12, 2010	Travel Fellowship Application Deadline

Friday, May 21, 2010	Travel Fellowship Acceptance Notification

Application Process

Application is by invitation-only, sent automatically via email from the ISCB submission system to the submitting author of each accepted Paper, Poster (excluding accepted Late Posters), Highlights and Late Breaking Research presentation. This invitation email will arrive after notification of acceptance to present at ISMB 2010, as a separate email. IF YOU HAVE AN ACCEPTED PRESENTATION AND HAVE NOT RECEIVED AN INVITATION BY APRIL 5 PLEASE CHECK YOUR SPAM FOLDER AND THEN CONTACT US IF AN INVITATION IS NOT THERE: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Each invitation will include a unique travel fellowship application URL to link to an application. The application URL must be submitted by the presenting author only, and only if he or she meets the eligibility requirements noted below. If the submitting author is not the presenting author, it is the responsibility of the submitting author to forward the invitation to the presenting author if he or she meets the eligibility requirements. Each application URL can only be used one time and no application will be accepted after the deadline of Monday, April 12, 2010.

Eligibility Requirements

1. Applicant must be a current ISCB member whose membership does not expire prior to the last day of the conference. Applications will not be accepted from non-members; pending memberships do not qualify and must be paid in full prior to submission of an application.

2. Applicant must be listed as an author or co-author on the original submission of an accepted ISMB 2010 Paper, Poster (excluding accepted Late Posters), Highlights, or Late Breaking Research presentation, and, per the requirements of the funding agencies, the funded applicant must be the presenting author of the work. (Submitters to the "Call for Late Posters" are not eligible for fellowship funding.)

3. Applicant must be registered in a degree program (undergraduate or graduate) or as a postdoctoral research fellow at an accredited educational institution at the time of the conference.

4. Applicant must be prepared to register for ISMB 2010 by the early registration deadline of May 28, 2010, and plan to attend the all 3 conference days (July 11-13). If attendance at the conference is dependent on receipt of travel fellowship funds, please do not register until after the notification of travel fellowship funding. Any funded applicant failing to register for the conference by the early registration deadline of May 28, 2010 will automatically forfeit the funds so that another applicant can be awarded from among the original pool of applicants.

5. Applicant must be able to pay all expenses of attending the conference up front, including conference registration fee (as noted in #4 above), travel, accommodations and meals. Travel Fellowship funding will be provided as a reimbursement approximately 4-6 weeks after the conference.

MARC Funding

If you meet all of the eligibility requirements above AND are a US citizen or US permanent resident AND belong to a minority group recognized as underrepresented in the sciences by the NIH, please be aware that you qualify to apply for a Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) travel award through the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB). These awards are meant to cover the full cost of attending the conference, and therefore we highly encourage all MARC eligible presenters to apply for these funds. For more information and to link to an application form, please see: http://marc.faseb.org/pages/page2a.htm and then click on Poster/Platform (Oral) Presenter Travel Award approximately midway down the page to access the MARC application form.

Further, funding to ISMB 2010 will either be awarded through ISMB or through the MARC program, not both. However, because funding availability is very limited, an application to the MARC program is encouraged for all who meet the MARC eligibility criteria.

Eligible expenses

Eligible expenses toward travel fellowship funds include conference registration, transportation (air or land transportation from home region to conference city), and a maximum of $400 USD of hotel room and occupancy tax charges. In order to receive the full awarded amount, receipts for registration, transportation and hotel accommodations are required that equal or exceed the awarded amount. Conference registration fee is reimbursable at the early registration pricing only; registration fees to attend pre-conference events such as SIGs and Tutorials are not reimbursable expenses.

The maximum fellowship award is determined based on geographical location of applicant and upon submission of appropriate receipts. Please note that even funded applicants will not be able to cover all their expenses with these fellowship amounts. Thus all applicants must seek and secure additional funding sources (e.g., from your home institution/university, or grant funding). For 2010 maximum awards will be as follows:

MAXIMUM FUNDS TO BE AWARDED PER REGION OF APPLICANT

Africa	1500 USD

Asia (excluding Middle East)	1200 USD

Canada (Ontario and East) Canada (West of Ontario)	700 USD 850 USD

Europe	975 USD

Mexico / Central America / South America	1150 USD

Middle East	1100 USD

Oceania	1550 USD

USA (East of Mississippi River) USA (West of Mississippi River)	575 USD 650 USD

Notification

Applicants will be notified by May 21, 2010 of funding status. Funded applicants will be required to present evidence of their eligibility status (such as student identification card) at the conference registration desk to receive their funds, and must sign in with the Travel Fellowships Desk each of the 3 conference days. In all cases, funds will be mailed to funded applicants after the conference.

IMPORTANT SUMMARY:

(1) The submitting author will be sent the invitation and is responsible for getting the invitation to the presenting author if the work is not being presented by the submitting author;
(2) Applicant must be a current member of ISCB prior to submitting an application;
(3) Applicant must be listed as an author and be the presenter of an accepted Paper, Poster, Highlights or Late Breaking Research presentation in order to be eligible to apply for travel fellowship funds through ISMB (MARC applications can be made after notification of accepted Late Poster and/or Art and Science presentation);
(4) All applicants must attend all 3 conference days and secure additional funding from other sources in order to be able to cover the full costs of attending the conference;
(5) Applicant's that plan to apply for MARC funds must do so per the URL in the MARC Funding section above (not applicable as the additional funding source mentioned in summary item #4 above);
(6) The deadline to submit a fellowship application is Monday, April 12, 2010, by 11:59 PM in the time zone of your choice. No exceptions will be made.

Questions regarding fellowships should be addressed to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The information on this page is subject to change without notice, and all changed information will be considered final for the purposes of awarding and funding ISMB 2010 Travel Fellowships.

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Student Council Symposium (SCS6)

The 6th ISCB Student Council Symposium is a student-organized event featuring keynote lectures, oral presentations and a poster session. In addition to previous years, a career event will be organized with a variety of distinguished speakers from industry and academia. The Symposium is tailored mainly to undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-docs in computational biology and related disciplines. This is once again a unique opportunity to meet fellow students and researchers for networking and exchange of ideas in a great setting.

The Agenda is posted here.

Abstracts can be submitted through the ISCB submission system. Please follow the submission guidelines carefully as abstract that do not meet this requirements will be returned without review.

Deadlines

February 22, 2010	Symposium Submission Opens

April 30, 2010	Symposium Submission Closes

April 30, 2010	Student Council Travel Fellowship Deadline

May 14, 2010	Symposium Submission Acceptance Notifications

July 9, 2010	Student Council Symposium

Visual Reflections on Science

Annual Art & Science Exhibition

The Art and Science Exhibition, or also known as the Visual Reflections on Science, is an event organized by the ISCB Student Council, a student-led section of ISCB whose mission is the development of the next generation of computational biologists. Submission details are available here (http://www.iscb.org/ismb2010-submission-details/ismb2010-artandscienceexhibition)

Late Breaking Research Track (LBR) Overview

Late Breaking Research Chair: John Quackenbush, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA

Click Here for Submissions

ISMB 2010 will bring together Bioinformaticians and Computational Biologists working in a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics.

The LBR Track provides authors an opportunity to submit late breaking research to ISMB delegates. Presentations run in parallel to other conference sessions and presenters will be given a 20-minute time slot (plus 5 minutes for questions) in the conference schedule to provide a summary and update to their work.

Key Dates

Monday, January 11, 2010	LBR Call for Proposals Opens

Friday, March 12, 2010	LBR Submission Deadline

Friday, April 2, 2010	LBR Acceptance Notification

Submissions and evaluation criteria:

Authors are to provide a 2 page, total, extended abstract of their work, including one (1) figure (11pt font, 1.5-inch margins). Submitters may choose to provide a link to a short (<=5min) video (eg. youtube) of them presenting their work, to assess presentation skills. Submissions will also be evaluated on the potential for an excellent and interesting presentation. Significance, interest to the bioinformatics community, and biological/medical impact would be the key evaluation criteria. Each submitter must provide a title, a short one (1) paragraph public abstract for inclusion in the electronic conference program and website. A one or two (1 or 2) sentence summary of novelty and significance of the work is to be included. During the submission process you will be able to confirm if your work will also to be presented as a poster.

For more information please contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.