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Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2011 The ISCB Fellows program honors members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. During the 2009 inaugural year of the program, ISCB committed to conferring Fellows status on all past and future winners of the ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award. To-date this includes David Haussler, David Lipman, Webb Miller, Chris Sander, David Sankoff, Temple Smith, Janet Thornton, and Mike Waterman. As the 2011 award winner, Michael Ashburner is now honored among them as well. For this year's Fellows election, ISCB put out a call for nominations to our member community. The minimum criterion for nomination of highly accomplished and distinguished scientists was that the nominated member had maintained an active membership for at least three of the last six years. Leading up to the nomination period, Fellows Committee Chair Alfonso Valencia (who also chairs the Awards Committee) gained approval to reconfigure the voting group to include all current Fellows together with the ISCB Board of Directors, with a plan to phase into voting by only Fellows once a critical mass is reached in the coming years. Many nominations were received for exceptional contributors to ISCB, and all represented researchers who have fulfilled important roles within our science. The outcome of the election is presented with great pride, and the ISCB Fellows Committee is pleased to announce these new Fellows, who now join their esteemed colleagues mentioned above in securing a place among our most highly honored members
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