ISMB/ECCB 2023 was an incredibly successful and memorable event! With nearly 2,600 participants from various countries, both in-person and online attendance, it was a diverse and engaging experience. The impressive number of talks, panel discussions, and posters shows the depth and breadth of scientific content covered during the conference. The Ideation Hall, where participants could interact with exhibitors, provided a great opportunity for networking, job exploration and exploring new ideas and technologies. ISMB/ECCB 2023 wouldn't be possible without the dedication and hard work of volunteers, and it's heartening to see their efforts being acknowledged. Steven Leard's long-term commitment to the conference is also commendable. ISCB wishes him all the best in his retirement from ISCB. Plan now to join us in 2024 in Montreal, Canada, July 12-16. ISMB/ECCB 2023 is a highlight of the summer for the scientific community, and the upcoming conference in Montreal holds promising prospects for further scientific advancement and collaboration.
Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award for Outstanding Student Paper | RCSB PDB Poster Prize | RSC Chemical Biology Poster Prize | Wikipedia Winner | Bio-ontologies COSI | BioVis COSI | CompMS COSI | CAMDA Trophy Award for Best Presentation | EvolCompGen COSI | HiTSeQ Award | iRNA Award | MLCSB COSI | RegSys COSI | SysMod COSI | TransMed COSI
Award Winner:
Cassandra Burdziak (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, USA)
scKINETICS: inference of regulatory velocity with single-cell transcriptomics data
Honorable mention:
Jonas Christian Ditz (University of Tübingen, USA)
COmic: Convolutional Kernel Networks for Interpretable End-to-End Learning on (Multi-)Omics Data
With Support From:
Nele Quast, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Matthew Raybould, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Charlotte Deane, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
A Structure-Focused Analysis of Antigens Presented by the Class 1 Major Histocompatibility Complex
RSC Chemical Biology Poster Prize
Fuyi Li
Jiangning Song
ProsperousPlus: An integrated platform for protease-specific substrate cleavage prediction and machine learning model construction of more than 100 proteases
1st prize
Article 1 - Adam Dubsky, Lukas Fernandes, Dolapo Salami
Similarity measure
Article 2 - Aarón Gallego Crespo
Tecnologías de transcriptómica
3rd prize
Article1 - Imanol Nuñez, Sofía Zorrila, Goretty Mendoza, Mario Molina
Índice Chao1
Article 2 - Anton Pashkov, Sofía González Sánchez
DNA annotation
COSI Awards
Bio-ontologies COSI
Best Poster
Jade Hotchkiss, University of Cape Town
First Layperson Translation of the Sickle Cell Disease Ontology – Making SCD-Centred eHealth Platforms more Accessible
Best Talk
Shuai Jiang, Beijing Institute of Genomics Chinese Academy of Sciences
Cell Taxonomy: a curated repository of cell types with multifaceted characterization
BioVis COSI
Best Long Abstract
Kari Lavikka, University of Helsinki, Finland
Ilari Maarala, University of Helsinki, Finland
Jaana Oikkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Yilin Li, University of Helsinki, Finland
Alexandra Lahtinen, University of Helsinki, Finland
Sampsa Hautaniemi, University of Helsinki, Finland
Visualizing temporal and multi-regional evolution of tumor subclones with Jellyfish plots
Best Poster
Felix Offensperger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Markus Joppich, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Ralf Zimmer, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Visualizing (differential) expression patterns with fuzzy concepts as FlowSets
Test of Time Award
Kenneth Sabir, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Australia
Christian Stolte, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia
Bruce Tabor, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia
Seán I. O'Donoghue, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Australia
A new modeling paradigm to study complete and harmonious whole biological systems
CompMS COSI
Best Talk
Cecile Le Sueur - EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Hierarchical Gaussian Process models uncover the dark meltome of Thermal Proteome Profiling experiments
Best Poster
Yannek Nowatzky - Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung (BAM), Germany
Fragmentation site prediction for non-targeted metabolomics using graph neural networks
EvolCompGen Awards
Long talks
Winner:
Brice Letcher
Programmed DNA Elimination in Mesorhabditis nematodes
Honorable mentions:
Xiaoyue Cui
Probing domain architecture design using language models
Axel Fehrenbach
Uncovering the Dynamics of CRISPR Array Evolution with a New Maximum Likelihood Approach
Short talks
Winner:
Gwanghoon Jung
Improving genome variation calls from non-human sequencing data using machine learning
Honorable mention:
Sarah Farhat
Whole genome duplication and gene evolution in the hyperdiverse venomous gastropods
Posters
Winner:
Daehong Kwon
SHERLOG: a full homology-based synteny block detection program
Honorable mentions:
Vivian B. Brandenburg
A quartet-based approach for inferring phylogenetically informative features from genomic and phenomic data
Sean MacRae
Generative Adversarial Networks for the Simulation of DNA Sequence EvolutionXiaoyue Cui, Probing domain architecture design using language models
iRNA Award
Best Poster
Kamil Hepak, Earlham Institute
Muex: a method to identify microexons from long-read RNA sequencing data
MLCSB COSI
Best Poster
Geert-Jan Huizing, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité
Paired single-cell multi-omics data integration with Mowgli
NetBio COSI
Best Talk
Océane Cassan, LIRMM, Univ Montpellier, CNRS, Montpellier, France
Gene-specific optimization of binding sites integration to expression data improves regression-based Gene Regulatory Network inference in Arabidopsis thaliana
Best Poster
Salvo D. Lombardo, CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria
The human exposure network: a multi-scale study of the impact of chemicals in human health
RegSys COSI
Best Talks
Ibrahim Ihsan Taskiran (KU Leuven)
Cell type directed design of synthetic enhancers
Jacob Schreiber (Stanford University)
DragoNNFruit: Learning cis- and trans-regulatory factors of chromatin accessibility profiles at single base and single cell resolution
SysMod COSI
1st
Riccardo Aucello, Simone Pernice, Dora Tortarolo, Francesca Cordero, Marco Beccuti and Pietro Liò
Computer Science Department, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
A new modeling paradigm to study complete and harmonious whole biological systems
2nd
Othmane Hayoun Mya, Arnau Montagud, Alfonso Valencia and Miguel Ponce de Leon
Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
Integrating stochastic Boolean and agent-based modelling frameworks for in-silico gastric cancer drug screening experiments with PhysiBoSS 2.0
3rd
Wim Thiels, Michiel Vanslambrouck, Casper Van Bavel, Jef Vangheel, Bart Smeets and Rob Jelier
KU Leuven, Belgium
Using mechanical simulation to study early gastrulation movements in C. elegans.
TransMed COSI
Best Talk
Michelle Li, Harvard Medical School
Deep learning for diagnosing patients with rare genetic diseases
Best Poster
Dries Heylen, UHasselt &VITO NV, Belgium
Evaluating the frequency of multi-omics longitudinal data collection in the perspective of chronic disease development
With multiple concurrent tracks, there's not enough time to catch everything you want to see. Worry not! Presentations are recorded unless the presenter explicitly denies us permission to do so.
Videos are available to conference registrants through the virtual platform (Juno) at the end of the day the presentation was given and posters are always open in the virtual poster hall. If a pre-recorded video of a presentation was submitted in advance of the conference by the deadline, then the link will be in the On Demand section (https://iscb.junolive.co/ismb2023/On-Demand) individually. If no pre-recorded video was submitted then, the entire session recording will be loaded to the On-Demand section and attendees will have to find the talk they wish to view within that session recording. Once we parse out the specific recording for a talk it replaces the master recording for that talk. Unfortunately, a timeline for this cannot be provided as there are too many uncontrollable variables.
The virtual platform for a conference stays live for 6 months, but only to registrants for that conference. At the 6 month mark, the virtual platform is taken down and the videos are released on our YouTube channel and the Content Library on Nucleus, provided we have permission from the presenter to share it. Both of these resources are open to the public.
Permissions
ISCB acts to ensure it is compliant with the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). To this end, we cannot share any recordings until we have express permission from the copyright holder in the recording to do so under Creative Commons 4 License (CC4). Permissions are first collected with the confirmation of participation form required of all presenters. If you have given a talk at an ISCB conference but cannot see the video in the associated playlists, be sure you have filled out the permission form allowing us to share it. The forms are conference specific and listed on the ISBCtv page.
Navigating YouTube
The playlists section of our YouTube channel shows the overview of playlists for various events (i.e. ISMB, ISCB-LATAM, or ISCBacademy), but an event doesn't show all the playlists within it simply by looking at the screen. If you click on the title of that event, for example "ISMB and ISMB/ECCB Playlists" it loads all of the playlists we have available for that event. You then have to scroll to the bottom (which takes scrolling to the bottom of the page to load more playlists multiple times) and you'll see the most recent playlists. There's also the channel search tool on the top right, just click on the magnifying glass icon.
The videos section of our YouTube channel shows the videos in order of release date by default; if you scroll to the bottom of the listed videos it will load more. Every video has the presentation title, presenter(s), conference, year, and track in the video description so you can search for any of them using Ctrl+F as well as YouTube's search function.
Navigating Content Library on Nucleus
The top of the content library contains a search bar. Any term(s) entered into the search bar will be searched for within presenter names, content titles, and content abstracts for a match. This bar automatically updates as you type so there may be load time while you complete your terms. Note that this search is progressively word-order dependent. This means that search terms are applied in a series from left to right. For example "Genome Assembly" will filter out all content that matches "genome", then filter those results for content matching "assembly".
Every video is also tagged with relevant tags that can be applied using the Filter button, located to the right of the search bar. These tags are grouped by category to help narrow down the filtering process. Tag filtering will return results with any of the selected tags. If no tags are selected then there is no tag filtering applied.
Questions
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Links within this page: Opening reception with Exhibitors | iRNA COSI Dinner | CAMDA COSI Dinner | Yoga at ISMB
Opening Reception with Exhibitors
Sunday, July 23 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Visit with conference exhibitors and join delegates in the Forum level (Level -2) at the Lyon Congress Centre) following the opening keynote in this informal networking event. The opening reception is open to registered delegates.
iRNA COSI Dinner
July 26, 7:30 pm
Park Brasserie Contemporaine, 77 Boulevard de Stalingrad, 69100 Villeurbanne
€45.00 per person (includes VAT)
Link to restaurant: https://brasserie-park.fr
To book your ticket (credit card payment only) visit: https://iscb.swoogo.com/irnadinner2023
CAMDA COSI Dinner
July 26, 7:15 PM - Meet at Poster Session (Forum Level) to walk as group to dinner
July 26, 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Dinner
To book your ticket (credit card payment only) visit: https://iscb.swoogo.com/CAMDADinner
All ISMB delegates are invited to join the CAMDA keynote speakers for scientific exchange and a great evening out at Le Bouchon Sully. The 3-course dinner features seasonal selections of local Lyonnaise cuisine. Vegetarian options also available. Aperitif, wine, and coffee included. Outdoors or in a well ventilated private room.
Tickets cost €49Eur and are available to purchase during ISMB conference registration. You can add dinner tickets until 18 July but capacity is limited to 40 and tickets sell fast.
We will gather after the poster session at the main conference entrance 7:15 pm to walk to the restaurant together. Then it is about a 30 minute stroll through a park, a fab opportunity for informal discussion and soaking up some nature. Alternatively, you can make your own way. Dinner starts 8 pm.
http://camda2023.bioinf.jku.at/#camda_dinner
Address
Le Bouchon Sully
20 Rue Sully
69006 Lyon
Tel. 04 89 41 07 97
YOGA at ISMB/ECCB 2023
July 24 through July 27
7:30 am - 8:00 am
Location: Place Haute (Level Rhone Pasteur, +1 Level Lyon Congress Centre)
Start the day with an invigorating morning yoga class to feel energised and relaxed for the scientific program. Classes are suitable for beginners. No fee or registration required.
Please bring your own yoga mat or towel, water bottle, and gear. The Place Haute is located inside the Lyon Congress Centre adjacent to the Pasteur Auditorium.
ISMB/ECCB 2023 Presenter Information
All presentations for ISMB/ECCB 2023 will presented live regardless if you are participating in-person or virtually. While most presenters will be in-person, those unable to travel will be presented live through the conference platform and streamed into the venue presentation room.
As you plan your participation as a presenter please find below details to assist you with your specific presentation type at the conference:
- How to Join the Session as a Virtual Speaker
- Key Dates Regarding Your Presentation
- In-person talk computer details
- Live Talks and Pre-recorded videos for the platform library
- Poster Presentation
- Recorded Presentation Guidelines for Virtual Events
- Live Presentation Guidelines for Virtual Events
- How to record a PowerPoint Presentation
- Hybrid Conference Optimal Conditions
- Uploading your Talk
- Uploading your Poster
- Social Media Promotion
- Resources
You can also find additional training videos here: https://help.junolive.com/exhibitors-speakers/training-videos-for-exhibitors-speakers-moderators
To join the session:
- log in to the ISMB virtual platform (https://iscb.junolive.co/ismbeccb2023) using the email you registered for the conference with.
- It is important that you use the same email as permissions on the virtual site are tied to your email
- Once logged in navigate to your talk
- There are multiple paths to your talk, for example searching through the Scientific Programme or via your profile page
- Normally clicking on your talk will bring up the details about your talk. 30 minutes before the session where your talk is scheduled, that link will instead take you to the video conferencing system. This is why the email permissions are important.
We ask that you join as early as you are able within the 30 minute window to provide ample time to troubleshoot any issues that may arise. Please note, this is 30 minutes before the session containing your talk, not 30 minutes before your talk
NOTE: sharing the screen with the virtual audience means presenter mode cannot be used unless you have a second monitor and configure it beforehand. For more information about screen sharing with a single monitor visit this page: https://help.junolive.com/exhibitors-speakers/screen-sharing-with-a-single-monitor
If you need assistance joining the room there is a help chat available that will attempt to troubleshoot and connect you to live assistance. You can also contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
**If you do not want to participate in Posterpalooza submit your work after the July 7 Posterpalooza deadline.**
July 7 | Poster presenters participating in Posterpalooza must upload their poster details between June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 7. No extensions. Upload includes MP4 poster presentation video (5-7 minutes), poster description and PDF of poster to the ISCB Nucleus platform to be included in Posterpalooza at ISMB/ECCB 2023. Additional details at:https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2023-programme/posterpalooza Poster presentation videos and PDFs uploaded through the poster page on the conference platform. Videos should be recorded in 720p - 1080p. There is no limit on video file size, PDFs cannot exceed 10Mb. |
July 15 | ISMB/ECCB Poster presenters can begin to upload their poster details beginning June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 15. No extensions. If you upload details for Posterpalooza you do not need to upload again. Upload includes MP4 poster presentation video (5-7 minutes), poster description and PDF of poster to the ISCB Nucleus platform Poster presentation videos and PDFs uploaded through the poster page on the conference platform. Videos should be recorded in 720p - 1080p. There is no limit on video file size, PDFs cannot exceed 10Mb. |
July 15 | ISMB/ECCB talk presenters upload their pre-recorded talk video to the ISCB Nucleus platform between June 26 and no later than 5:00 pm (Eastern), July 15. No extensions. Videos become part of the conference library. Presentations not uploaded in advance will not be guaranteed to be part of the conference on-demand library. Videos should be recorded in 720p - 1080p and there is no limit on video file size. |
In-person talk computer details
For those presenting in-person please note you must use the supplied computer due to the connection process with the JUNO virtual platform. You should pre-load your presentation on the in-room computer prior to your event.
Computer Specifications:
- All laptops will run Microsoft Windows 10 and include PowerPoint, Adobe PDF, and Microsoft Office. PDFs will not be able to have the fullscreen shown on the podium computers, as such powerpoint is highly recommended
- All laptops will have Microsoft Office 365, compatible with the old version from 2016. There should be no compatibility issues for presentations created with PowerPoint 2019 or 2021.
- If Video will be a part of your presentation, it is highly recommended for it to be inserted using the “Video on my PC” option within PowerPoint. Save/include the video file included in the same folder as your presentation. It is not recommended to use the “Online Video” option. Presentation times will not be extended for troubleshooting technical difficulties for videos that do not load.
- Custom/non-standard Windows fonts are not recommended or supported. If utilized, ensure that the font(s) are fully embedded within your presentation file for best results.
- Apple Keynote and Google Slides are not supported.
- Slide size should be set to “Widescreen (16:9)” within PowerPoint (this is the default).
- Projector Information: 16:9 Aspect Ratio / 1920x1080 resolution. Screen size will vary depending upon the room.
All abstract presenters, invited speakers, poster presenters, and proceedings presenters are required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.
All poster presenters, including those presenting in-person, will upload a short 5-7 minute video to the virtual conference platform site along with a PDF of their poster beginning June 26, 2023 and no later than July 7, 2023 if they wish to be included in the pre-conference posterpalooza. Otherwise, the final deadline for all uploads is July 15, 2023. Those presenting a poster and a talk on the same topic must provide two sets of files, one for the talk one for the poster. A talk video cannot be used for a poster presentation.
Pre-recorded talks for the platform library should be prepared ensuring you upload a .mp4 file. Videos should be recorded in 720p - 1080p and there is no limit on video file size. Poster PDFs must not exceed 10Mb. Presenters will upload their recordings directly through the conference platform site after logging in as a registrant. Don't forget you need to be registered no later than June 16, 2023.
PLEASE note once submitted your video cannot be updated.
- Save your presentation as .mp4 file
- Ensure you use the filename(s) provided to you in the email sent upon submission of the Confirmation of Participation. This email will be sent from This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., be sure it is whitelisted so as not to miss any communications from ISCB
- If you are presenting a poster in addition to a talk you must prepare a second video for the poster as the allowed time is shorter (5-7 minutes). The video for your talk cannot be used for your poster presentation. See the poster instructions below for more details
- Recording may or may not include the presenter in the recording, this is at the presenter's discretion. Should the presenter elect to appear on camera in your recording, we suggest you wear the same outfit the day of your presentation.
- Ensure you prepare your talk based on the length of time specified within the acceptance notification :
- Proceedings Talk (20 minute time slot)
- Abstract Long Talk (20 minute time slot)
- Abstract Talk (15 minute time slot)
- Abstract Flash Talk (10 minute time slot)
- Invited Talk (Variable, check with your COSI or Track organizer for more information)
The following links can be of assistance for planning your presentation(s):
Some additional helpful tips on planning your recorded talk are available below. We suggest that if you are including a visual image of yourself in the recording you consider wearing the same outfit for the live Q&A.
Turn on live captions using the Google Chrome browser. Download Chrome here if you haven’t already. Remember, you’ll always need to access the event website in Chrome for these captions to work. More details can be found at https://help.junolive.com/attendees/turn-on-live-captions
Presenters of a poster presentation at ISMB/ECCB 2023 will upload your poster and video via the conference platform beginning June 26, 2023 with the following:
- Presentation abstract
- PDF of your poster, no larger than 10Mb
- 5 to 7 minute poster presentation talk as .mp4 file (Maximum 7 minutes)
- Videos should be recorded in 720p - 1080p and there is no limit on video file size
Poster presenters will be able to:
- direct message with attendees
- create ad hoc "video demo rooms"
- Q&A with the poster presenter via public comments as well as live flash poster talks
Some helpful tips on planning your recorded talk are available below.
Presenting your poster in a lighting style format using the PechaKucha or Ignite talks presentation style or a single slide or PDF is an option for presenters.
Here is an example of a presentation: https://youtu.be/rbLbb7eOao8
In-person poster presenters can find their poster number and session on the Posters Programme page
Poster Display Size:
Recommended poster size is A0 size (84.1cm wide and 118.9cm tall).
*No onsite poster printing is available*
How to record a power point presentation
For the best experience please consider the following in preparation of the conference:
- Preferred browser is Chrome
- Hardwire your computer vs wifi
- Turnoff other browsers, background programs and eliminate other internet devices being used if possible
To ensure all required presentation materials are available be sure to follow these steps to upload your files
- Once the window for you to upload your poster opens you will be sent a "You have been added as an Admin" email from ISCB
- Log in to the conference virtual platform using the email you registered with
- Navigate to your presentation. You can do so with the link in the "You have been added as an Admin" email, or you can navigate to your talk using the "Scientific Programme" on the virtual platform
- Once in the page for your talk you will need to scroll down to click on your name, then visit page to go to your speaker profile
- Click the edit button on your speaker profile
- Use this page to add a photo and speaker bio (OPTIONAL) and be sure to click the "Save Changes" button after any updates.
- To upload your mp4 navigate to the "Meta Data" tab and click the "Add Meta Data" button
- Select "Upload MP4" from the type menu
- Click Choose a file then navigate to the video on your computer. Be sure to use the filename provided upon submission of the Confirmation of Participation. Using the incorrect filename may result in the file not being properly displayed.
- Confirm you have the right video and a pop-up will appear showing you progress of the upload. Once completed the "Cancel" button will change to "OK"
- Click "Save Changes"
The following video tutorial from ISMB 2022 will walk you through the same steps
To ensure all required presentation materials are available be sure to follow these steps to upload your files
- Once the window for you to upload your poster opens you will be sent a 'You have been added as an Admin' email from ISCB with a link that will take you directly to the front end of your poster booth
- Additionally, you'll receive a notification on in your profile on the conference site that will direct you to the same location as the email
- Information tab = OPTIONAL Intro, Description, and Image update
- Rotators - this is where you'll upload the mp4 of your presentation. The steps to do so are:
- Click "Add rotator"
- Give the rotator a title
- Type - use the drop down to find "Video Upload mp4"
- Upload file - this will open to search your computer for the file. Be sure to use the filename provided upon submission of the Confirmation of Participation. Using the incorrect filename may result in the file not being properly displayed
- Once uploading, don't navigate to another page - you may use a separate tab while the video is uploading, though
- Once completed, the "CANCEL" button will update to "OK". Click "OK" and then save changes
- Resources - this is where you'll upload your pdf. This process is the same as the mp4
- Add a title (required)
- Description is optional and not shown on the site
- Upload your file using 'Upload File'. Again, this will allow you to search your local computer for the file you'd like to upload
- Be sure to use the filename provided upon submission of the Confirmation of Participation. Using the incorrect filename may result in the file not being properly displayed
- File must be less than 10 MB - this limit only applies to the pdf
- The same downloading window will appear, and you'll click Complete when the file has been uploaded.
- Meta Data - this is where you may add in any personal links/ways to contact you (Optional)
- Greeting - This will populate next to the rotator on the page (Optional)
The following video tutorial will walk you through the same steps
Here are the steps to get started:
- Download the PowerPoint template from the attached file. The template includes instructions for customization.
- Copy and paste the suggested content from the PDF media kit file into your social media posts or email messages. Feel free to personalize it as you see fit.
Exhibitors
Booth | Exhibitor | Booth | Exhibitor |
1 | Oxford University Press | 2 | Human Frontier Science Program |
3 | GSK | 4 | Elixir |
5 | Pfizer | 6 | SFBI |
7 | MemVerge | 8 | St. Jude Children's Research Hospital |
9 | eLife | 10 | The Royal Society |
11 | PerMedCoE | 12 | The Jackson Laboratory |
13 | Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics | 14 | UCS Leonard Davis |
15 | ECCB | 16 | Genomics, Proteomics, and Bioinformatics Journal |
17 | X-Omics | 18 | ISCB |
19 | ISCB-SC | 20 |
Corteva Agriscience is a global pure-play agriculture company that provides farmers around the world with the most complete portfolio in the industry - including a balanced and diverse mix of seed, crop protection and digital solutions focused on maximizing productivity to enhance yield and profitability. With some of the most recognized brands in agriculture and an industry-leading product and technology pipeline well positioned to drive growth, the company is committed to working with stakeholders throughout the food system as it fulfills its promise to enrich the lives of those who produce and those who consume, ensuring progress for generations to come. More information can be found at www.corteva.com
The 23rd European Conference on Computational Biology ECCB2024 will be hosted by University of Turku and CSC – IT Center for Science in the oldest city of Finland, Turku, 16-20 September 2024. The focus of the conference is on data and algorithms for health and science. We welcome scientists from a wide range of disciplines to join!
eLife is an independent nonprofit committed to improving the way research is reviewed and communicated in the life sciences and medicine. Earlier this year we introduced a new model of publishing that puts preprints first and emphasises public reviews and assessments of research. This system makes sharing of research faster and fairer, while still providing robust peer review and quality assessment.
ELIXIR is an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources, including databases, software tools, training materials, and cloud storage from across Europe. ELIXIR’s services are run by ELIXIR Nodes, interconnected centres of excellence throughout Europe, coordinated by the ELIXIR Hub in the UK. Currently, there are 22 members and two observers, bringing together over 220 research organisations.
F1000Research is an Open Research publishing platform for scientists, scholars and clinicians across all disciplines offering rapid publication of articles and other research outputs without editorial bias. We publish research across all academic disciplines and in multiple formats, including original articles, data notes, software tool articles and method articles.
Frontiers in Bioinformatics is a young open-access journal, led by Prof. Adam Godzik (University of California Riverside). The journal provides a forum where new discoveries in all aspects of bioinformatics and the analysis of biological data are presented. Frontiers in Bioinformatics focuses on new bioinformatics tools and novel applications that can bring new insights to specific biological problems, efforts that cross standard field boundaries.
Fulgent Genetics is a global leader in next-generation sequencing with a focus on developing flexible and affordable genetic testing panels. By merging the fields of genetics, molecular biology, and computer science, we pursue excellence in genetic sequencing, scalability, and data analysis. We offer an unrivaled catalog of genetic testing covering over 18,000+ single genes, 800+ rare disease tests, whole-genome sequencing, whole-genome copy number variation analysis, mitochondrial sequencing, and CLIA/CAP quality sequencing services.
GOBLET is an international organisation with the mission to cultivate a global community of bioinformatics trainers who support learning, education and training. GOBLET’s mission was defined under the vision that there is a clear need to harmonise bioinformatics training activities and to unite, inspire, and equip bioinformatics trainers worldwide. Towards this, GOBLET collaborates with national and international bioinformatics organisations. Relevant activities include the initiation of a series of standards and guidelines, work on the definition of competencies, promotion of best practices, and providing high-quality resources for learning, education and training in bioinformatics and computational biology, on a global scale.
As one of ISCB’s Journals of Interest, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics (GPB) welcomes quality submissions on omics and bioinformatics worldwide, ranked Q1 in WoS category Genetics & Heredity with real-time IF of 8.9. GPB is the official journal of Beijing Institute of Genomics, CAS / /China National Center for Bioinformation, and Genetics Society of China. It is published by Elsevier and will be published by Oxford University Press from 2024. Follow GPB at Twitter (GPBees).
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) is a global biopharma company with a purpose to unite science, technology and talent to get ahead of disease together. We focus on four therapeutic areas: infectious diseases, HIV, immunology/respiratory and oncology. At the heart of this is our R&D focus on the science of the immune system, human genetics, genomics and advanced technologies, and our world-leading capabilities in vaccines and medicines development. Computational Biology and more generally Data Science play a key role in supporting our R&D strategy and pipeline.
The Harvard Medical School Department of Biomedical Informatics offers a variety of opportunities to increase your knowledge base and skill set in the application of quantitative principles to biomedical discovery. Come learn about our educational programs which include a Master’s, PhD, and Summer Institute and hear about our postdoctoral fellowships, faculty positions and other career opportunities.
Visit our booth to learn more about educational and career opportunities. For more information please visit: http://dbmi.hms.harvard.edu
The Human Frontier Science Program (HFSP) is unique, supporting international collaboration to undertake innovative, risky, basic research at the frontier of the life sciences. Special emphasis is given to the support and training of independent young investigators, beginning at the postdoctoral level. The Program is supported financially by Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, Japan, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, and the European Commission. Since 1990, over 7500 researchers from more than 70 countries have been supported. Of these, 28 HFSP awardees have gone on to receive the Nobel Prize.
With 3,000+ researchers in 12 labs on six continents focused on Accelerated Discovery and Exploratory Sciences, IBM Research pioneers the most promising and disruptive technologies in hybrid cloud, AI and quantum computing. The combination of increasingly powerful computers and AI offers the possibility to be able to detect, diagnose, understand and cure diseases like never before. At IBM Research, we’re working on creating software and AI systems that can convert reams of health data into useable information for researchers and clinicians the world over. Scientific discovery is driven by two forces: the development of new capabilities and the relentless tenacity of the world’s sharpest minds. We see it as our duty to accelerate scientific progress by developing cutting-edge technologies, demonstrating scalable processes, and deploying new models of collaborative innovation.
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) (www.iscb.org) was the first and continues to be the only society representing computational biology and bioinformatics worldwide. ISCB serves a global community of nearly 3,400 scientists dedicated to advancing the scientific understanding of living systems through computation by:
- convening the world’s experts and future leaders in top conferences
- partnering with publications that promote discovery and expand access to computational biology and bioinformatics
- delivering valuable information about training, education, employment, and relevant news
- providing an influential voice on government and scientific policies that are important to our members
ISCB has three official journals – OUP Bioinformatics, PLOS Computational Biology and F1000Research ISCB Community Journal, and has affiliations in place with several other publications for the benefit of our members.
ISCB Student Council (SC, www.iscbsc.org) is an international network of young researchers in the broader disciplines of the field of Computational Biology. SC provides opportunities for networking, career enhancement and skills development for the next generation of Computational Biology leaders. The SC Symposium (symposium.iscbsc.org) is organized as a part of the annual ISMB conference with student presentations, keynotes, panel discussions and a poster session. Come visit our friendly SC representatives at the booth for more information.
The Jackson Laboratory is an independent, nonprofit biomedical research institution with more than 2,400 employees. Its mission is to discover precise genomic solutions for disease and empower the global biomedical community in the shared quest to improve human health.
Life is an international, peer-reviewed, open access journal of scientific studies related to fundamental themes in life sciences, published monthly online by MDPI. It publishes topics include, but are not limited to biomolecular design, activation and function; molecular evolution; biomolecular trafficking, and networks; membranes, and molecular organization in cells. We encourage the submission of manuscripts that fall in the broad areas of:
Structural biology
Computational biology
Biochemistry and biophysics of subcellular and molecular processes
As the world's enterprises accelerate their digital transformations, they discover that next-generation applications must deal with data that are bigger and faster at the same time, outstripping the capabilities of today's infrastructure. MemVerge's mission is to deliver a new architecture, called Big Memory Computing, that converges memory and storage, thereby removing the storage I/O bottleneck once and for all. MemVerge's Memory Machine™ Software virtualizes heterogeneous memory hardware into a software-defined memory service that has both high capacity and high performance. MemVerge ZeroIO™ In-Memory Snapshot technology captures the state of running applications, and can be used for application roll-back, cloning and high availability. The results are new levels of productivity, performance, availability, and mobility for today's data-centric applications, both on-premises and in the cloud.
Oxford University Press publishes a range of computational biology journals, including Bioinformatics, Bioinformatics Advances, GigaScience, Nucleic Acids Research, NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics, Database, Briefings in Bioinformatics, Briefings in Functional Genomics, and more. Bioinformatics publishes the highest quality scientific papers and review articles with its main focus is on new developments in genome bioinformatics and computational biology.
Overleaf is a free, collaborative, cloud-based LaTeX editor which makes the process of writing, editing and publishing scientific documents quicker and easier. This intuitive online platform has seen rapid adoption across science and research, and Overleaf's award-winning collaboration technology is now in use by over 9 million researchers, students and technical writers in institutions, labs and industry worldwide. It’s simple and intuitive to use – all you need is a web browser – try it out and use it for free at www.overleaf.com.
PerMedCoE is Europe's HPC/Exascale Centre of Excellence for Personalised Medicine that leverages clinical and omics data to revolutionise disease treatment at an individual level. By optimising core applications and integrating them with new HPC/Exascale platforms, the project allows for the simulation of cell-level models for personalised treatments. Through comprehensive use cases, training, and collaboration with the biomedical consortia, this EU-funded Center of Excellence bridges the gap between molecular and organ-level simulations
At Pfizer, we apply science and our global resources to bring therapies to people that extend and significantly improve their lives. We strive to set the standard for quality, safety and value in the discovery, development and manufacture of health care products, including innovative medicines and vaccines. Every day, Pfizer colleagues work across developed and emerging markets to advance wellness, prevention, treatments and cures that challenge the most feared diseases of our time.
The Royal Society journals Journal of the Royal Society Interface and Interface Focus regularly publish high-quality cross-disciplinary research at the boundary between the physical and life sciences, including computational and systems biology. We welcome research, reviews, and proposals for themed issues from scientists working in these areas. Both sides of the boundary are considered equally, and Journal of the Royal Society Interface and Interface Focus are some of the only journals to cover this exciting new territory.
The SFBI is the French Bioinformatics Society. Its mission is to promote interdisciplinary research in France at the interface between Molecular Biology, Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Physics. By collaborating with the other French bioinformatics actors (GDR-BIM and IFB), SFBI brings together the whole French community. SFBI organizes every year the French Bioinformatics conference called JOBIM. By setting up networks, SFBI also supports training, the professional insertion of young bioinformaticians, research projects and educational innovation.
The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an internationally recognized non-profit organization, dedicated to biological and biomedical data science. Its data scientists are passionate about creating knowledge and solving complex questions in many fields, from biodiversity and evolution to medicine, by providing essential databases and software platforms as well as bioinformatics expertise and services to academic, clinical, and industry groups.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a top-ranked Pediatric Cancer Hospital and a world-renowned basic and translational science research institute with over 200 faculty members. St. Jude offers a highly collaborative research and training environment that includes state-of-the-art facilities and resources. Postdoctoral research fellows will receive a competitive salary, excellent benefits, and a professional development allowance. To find out more about our research facilities and benefits for postdocs, click here.
Syngenta plays a vital role in enabling the food chain to feed the world safely and take care of our planet. Our ambition is to be the most collaborative and trusted team in agriculture, providing leading seeds and crop protection innovations to enhance the prosperity of farmers, wherever they are.
We are a technology company that has built the world’s largest library of clinical and molecular data and an operating system to make that data accessible and useful, starting with cancer. Our goal is for each patient to benefit from the treatment of others who came before.
We’re looking for people who can help us change the world. Who question the status quo and don’t shy away from tough problems. For the builders who are never done building and the learners who are never done learning. We’re looking for passionate people with undying curiosity. Those who want to attack one of the most challenging problems ever faced… head on.
Founded in 1975, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology is the oldest and largest school of its type in the world. We offer the most comprehensive selection of gerontology degree programs found anywhere, a variety of outstanding research opportunities and a challenging yet supportive academic environment. As a small school rooted in a world-class research university located in the heart of one of the most important cities on earth, the USC Leonard Davis School of Gerontology—and its research and services arm, the Ethel Percy Andrus Gerontology Center—are home to today’s leaders in the field, and to tomorrow’s. Our program studies the human lifespan by exploring the biological, psychological, sociological, political, medical and business dimensions of adult life. The curriculum is aimed at equipping future professionals in the field of aging with the specific skills and knowledge necessary to respond effectively to the needs of an aging population.
Biomedical Data Science (BDS) encompasses the study and pursuit of the effective uses of biomedical data, information, and knowledge for scientific inquiry, problem-solving, and decision-making, driven by efforts to improve human health. The graduate programs in BDS blend the best of statistics, computer sciences, biostatistics and biomedical informatics and train students to develop computational and mathematical approaches to analyze large-scale biomedical data and to lead collaborative, interdisciplinary team science efforts.
X-omics is a National Roadmap Large-Scale Research Infrastructure, partially funded by NWO with a budget of 40 million euro. X-omics aims to establish a multi-omics research infrastructure across the Netherlands, by combining technologies in the field of genomics, proteomics, metabolomics and data analysis, integration & stewardship. With this infrastructure biomedical problems can be solved using an integrated approach. Two major goals are:
- Advance X-omics technologies far beyond state-of-art,
- Realize an integrated X-omics infrastructure.