Affiliated
Regional Groups
Just as ISCBs
global membership has increased, new relationships with affiliated
regional groups have formed and old partnerships have strengthened.
ISCB has started an Affiliated Regional Group Program to promote
bioinformatics as a scientific discipline, and increase public and
governmental recognition of its importance.
ISCB is pleased to announce the following members of the Affiliated
Regional Group Program (www.iscb.org/affiliates.shtml):
ISCB Affiliated
Regional Group Program participants may benefit from the following:
- Cross-visibility
within one anothers web pages, conferences, journals, and
bulletins
- Affiliated
Regional Groups may request access to facilities at ISMBISCBs
official conferencefor regional meetings
- Appointment
of an ISCB Board member as affiliate point of contact (POC) to
consider regional matters relevant to ISCB
- Solicitation
for nominations to ISCBs Board from Affiliated Regional
Groups through the Societys regional POCs
- Eligibility
for support of regional activities: Travel funds for a recognized
scientist in the field to lecture at a regional meeting or workshop;
travel fellowships for scientists from the region to travel to
ISMB
The ISCBthrough
its Affiliated Regional Group Programis hopeful this effort
will strengthen the bioinformatics community by providing a locality
for mutual support to advance common interests of bioinformaticians
at large. Members of regional bioinformatics and computational biology
groups who consider affiliation with ISCB to be potentially beneficial
for their organizations, are encouraged to contact admin@iscb.org
for further information.
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