Online Registration Closing Soon for the 2014 RECOMB/ISCB Conference!

Please note online registration closes Tuesday, November 4, 2014, 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time. After this time registration will only be available onsite at the conference registration desk at the Wyndham San Diego Bayside, beginning on Monday, November 10 at 8:15 am.

Nominate Now!

Dear Colleagues,

Please help nominate papers in the field of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, that you've recently read and found to be of particular interest. Relevant areas include Motifs, Grammars, Networks, Systems, Variation, Disease, Personal Genomics, GWAS interpretation, Regulatory Evolution, Comparative genomics, Epigenomics, Physical modeling, Dataset Integration, Splicing regulation, transcriptional regulation, and all areas of gene and genome regulation at the systems level.

You can find the nomination form here: http://goo.gl/forms/ENlRYpOVhD

Please nominate papers that appeared between September 1st, 2013 and November 12, 2014. You can of course nominate a paper from your own group, but we ask that if you are doing so, to also take the time to nominate at least one paper that was not co-authored by you.

The nomination process will close on November 5th.

Our goal is to identify seminal papers that introduced not only new biological insights, but also key computational methodologies for interpreting biological datasets that have had and will continue to have a lasting impact in the field of Regulatory and Systems Genomics. These will be honored at an awards ceremony in the 2014 RECOMB/ISCB Meeting on Regulatory and Systems Genomics in San Diego on November 9-14, 2014. www.iscb.org/recomb-regsysgen2014

Thank you for your help and for being part of our community,

Manolis Kellis and Saurabh Sinha
Co-organizers, RegSysGen Top 10 Papers Reading List
ISCB Special Interest Group On Regulatory & Systems Genomics (RegSys SIG)
http://cosi.iscb.org/wiki/RegSIG:Home

Hot off the E-press!

The ISCB Fall 2014 Newsletter

Click through the exciting updates within the community and learn more about ISCB's new initiatives in the 2014 Fall Newsletter.

View the online program for the 2014 RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics Conference!

DREAM CHALLENGES This conference will also feature the ninth annual meeting of the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM). We invite the scientific community to participate in this year’s DREAM Challenges, which have been designed to focus attention on important questions related to human health. Learn more about the DREAM Challenges.

November 9-14, 2014

Join us in San Diego, California for five full-packed days of science and networking. The conference will feature 13 keynote speakers, 49 talks, 8 Cytoscape Application talks, 2 Cytoscape Workshops, and over 12 DREAM Challenge and Best Performer presentations.

Discounted hotel rooms are still available! Act now before the conference rate expires on FRIDAY!

Don't miss this premier event in Regulatory and Systems Genomics!!

REGISTER NOW

Affiliates Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors Election Results!

ISCB Announces Affiliates Representative to the ISCB Board of Directors Election Results Horton Elected as the ISCB Affiliates Representative to Board of Directors
 
Paul Horton, PhD, has been elected as the newest  ISCB Affiliates Representative to the Board of Directors. Horton is presently the Director of the Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC) in Tokyo, Japan and is a visiting associate professor at the Graduate School for Frontier Sciences at Tokyo University. He is an active member of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) affiliate group and has served as an ISCB Board Member, and past ISCB Conferences Committee Chair.

Horton holds a PhD in computer science from the University of California, Berkeley, and has experience in both the academic and tech start-up sectors. Horton’s computational interests include programming, algorithm development, and applications of machine learning. Horton applies his computational approaches to better understanding several biological areas, including subcellular protein localization, motif discovery, genome alignment, and sequence processing.
 
Horton has worked at CBRC since 2003, first as a research team leader, and more recently, as its director. Horton is spearheading CBRC’s plan to make significant and useful contributions to the application of genomic data in medicine and biotechnology.
 
Horton has served the bioinformatics community in numerous capacities, including his work as an ISCB board member and trustee of the Japanese Society for Bioinformatics. He chaired the ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012 conference and has also worked on conference committees for ISMB and other world-class bioinformatics meetings.  He is currently chairing the GIW ISCB-Asia conference, which will be held in December in Tokyo, Japan.  Horton is on the editorial boards of several bioinformatics journals and also advises graduate students at Tokyo University.
 
Horton’s diverse training and research experiences in the United States, Taiwan, and Japan have given him a valuable and unique perspective of the global bioinformatics community, which should serve him well in his new position as the affiliates representative.

Join us for the 2014 RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory & Systems Genomics Conference!

DREAM CHALLENGES This conference will also feature the ninth annual meeting of the Dialogue for Reverse Engineering Assessments and Methods (DREAM). We invite the scientific community to participate in this year’s DREAM Challenges, which have been designed to focus attention on important questions related to human health. Learn more about the DREAM Challenges.

Join us in San Diego, California for five full-packed days of science and networking.  The conference will feature 13 keynote speakers, 49 talks, 8 Cytoscape Application talks, 2 Cytoscape Workshops, and over 12 DREAM Challenge and Best Performer presentations.  

Discounted hotel rooms are still available!  Act now before the conference rate expires on FRIDAY!

Don't miss this premier event in Regulatory and Systems Genomics!!

REGISTER NOW

ISCB Advances Young Careers!
Meet the young scientists that benefited from your support

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY…LIFE’S A BEACH!
Summer—a time for picnics, beaches, vacation—and the world’s hottest computational biology conferences! Thanks to support from our members, ISCB awarded travel fellowships to 89 students to attend ISMB in Boston, USA, and 9 students to attend ECCB in Strasbourg, France.

YOU CAN HELP YOUNG SCIENTISTS BUILD THEIR SKILLS!
Donate to the ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Campaign and invest in the future of bioinformatics and computational biology! Without the support of travel fellowships, many recipients would not have been able to attend the top conferences in our fields. And, ISCB receives many more deserving applications than we can fund. Your donations help us do more. Your contribution, at any amount, will make a difference for a young scientist!


From posters, to highlights and proceedings talks—for many students, ISMB and ECCB are their first opportunities to present at a major scientific conference.




Watch and hear how attending ISMB 2014 impacted students!

Watch the full interviews to see how ISMB gives young scientists a head start at the ISCB YouTube Channel!  



Summer may be over, but ISCB has exciting conferences planned for Fall 2014 and 2015! Learn more about how you can help young scientists and ISCB at  

ISMB 2014 ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Awardees

ECCB 2014 ISCB Student Travel Fellowship Awardees

 On behalf of the ISCB Board of Directors, we thank you for your support and participation in our Society!

For further information, contact:

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www.iscb.org

ISCB Announces Results of the 2014 Officer Elections

The Board of Directors of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the results of the recent officer elections. Members of the society elected the following as incoming officers beginning January 2015:

• Secretary – Scott Markel, Ph.D., Dassault Systèmes BIOVIA, USA. Scott Markel is the Principal Bioinformatics Architect in BIOVIA's Research and Development group. He is the current Secretary for ISCB and will continue in that role.  Markel is also the chair of the Publications Committee, led the ISCB executive director search task force, and is on the editorial board for both PLOS Computational Biology and OUP Bioinformatics.
  
  
• Vice President – Bonnie Berger, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute for Technology (MIT), USA. Bonnie Berger is Professor of Applied Mathematics, and on the faculty of the Computation and Biology group at the MIT-CSAIL. She is also an affiliate member of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST), and MIT's Computer Science and Systems Biology initiative (CSBi). Berger is an ISCB Fellow, currently serves on ISCB board of directors, serves as the chair of the Awards Committee, and chaired ISMB 2014.
  
  
• Vice President – Christine Orengo, Ph.D., University College London, United Kingdom. Christine Orengo is a professor of Bioinformatics at the University College London.  She was recently elected as a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO).  Orengo is the co-chair of the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) Committee and played an instrumental role in developing the program.  She is also the co-chair of the Conferences Committee and serves as a current member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors.

This year's election also included ISCB Student Council leadership. The ISCB Board of Directors is pleased to announce the elected young professionals who will lead the ISCB Student Council (SC) in 2015.

• Chair – Pieter Meysman, University of Antwerp, Belgium
• Vice Chair – Alexander Junge, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Treasurer – Jakob Jespersen, Broad Institute, United States
• Secretary – Tomas Di Domenico, University of Padova, Italy
• Student Council Representative to ISCB Board of Director – Jigisha Anupama Darbha, India

For additional information on ISCB's annual nominations and elections procedures please see http://iscb.org/iscb-leadership-a-staff-/officers-and-board-directors/nomination-election-procedures.

The next call for nominations of directors, officers and student council leaders will open February 2015, for terms beginning in January 2016.

ISCB-LA: Submit Flash Talks and Posters - Deadline is Friday!

Last call to submit your latest research for presentation at ISCB-Latin America X-Meeting!

Flash Talks and Posters Submission Deadline:  FRIDAY, August 15!

Submit your research for presentation at the third International Society for Computational Biology Latin America X-Meeting on Bioinformatics with BSB and SoiBio (ISCB-Latin America) and join 450 other top-notch researchers and students from around the globe.

Don't miss your opportunity to become part of this unique and exciting conference! 

Submission Topics:

• Bioinformatics of Disease and Treatment
• Computational aspects
• Comparative Genomics
• Education --The examination of how different models of learning and educational programming in bioinformatics (e.g. tutorials, workshops, courses and e-learning) can be used to impact the understanding and use of bioinformatics across different audiences.
• Epigenetics
• Functional Genomics
• Genome Organization and Annotation
• Genetic Variation Analysis
• Metagenomics
• Pathogen informatics
• Population Genetics, Variation and Evolution
• Protein Structure and Function Prediction and Analysis
• Proteomics
•  Sequence Analysis
•  Systems Biology and Networks

ISCB Buzz: Recorded Talks,
FASEB Bioart, Wikipedia Winners
& Soft Skills!

Conference Updates
	Register Now for ISCB-LA & Save! Belo Horizonte, Brazil October 28 - 30, 2014
	Abstract Submission Deadline: September 12! San Diego, California, USA November 9 - 14, 2014 Cytoscape Workshop to be held Prior to RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference - Join Cytoscape in San Diego for their workshops which are being held prior to RECOMB/ISCB Regulatory and Systems Genomics Conference. ISCB members will enjoy a $25 discount when attending the workshops!
	Mark your Calendars for ROCKY 2014! Aspen/Snowmass, Colorado December 11 - 13, 2014
	Registration Open for GIW ISCB-Asia 2014! Tokyo, Japan December 15 - 17, 2014
	Submissions are Now Open for ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference 2015! Dar es Salaam, Tanzania March 09 - 11, 2015
ISMB 2014 Recorded Talks
ISMB 2014 Conference Talks Now Available The full listing of ISMB 2014 conference presentations currently available on the website. To view the presentations you have to either be a member of the ISCB and need to be logged into your user account or have attendeed the ISMB 2014 conference.
FASEB Bioart Competition
BioArt: Scientific Image & Video Competition The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is pleased to announce its third annual BioArt competition. Each day, scientific investigators product thousands of images and videos as part of their research, but very few are ever seen outside the laboratory. We are looking for visually compelling, high resolution submissions from federally-funded researchers and/or FASEB constituent society members. Images & videos can be submitted through August 30! For more information, please visit: www.faseb.org/bioart.
2014 Wikipedia Competition
ISCB Congratulates 2014 Wikipedia Competition Winners At During the ISMB conference in July, we announced the winners of this year's Wikipedia Competition. ISCB conducted an international competition to improve the coverage of the Wikipedia on any aspect of computational Biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission is to further the scientific understanding of living systems through computation and to communicate this knowledge to the public at large.
Soft Skills
Soft Skills: An important Asset Acquired from Organizing Regional Student Group Activities Contributing to a student organization, such as the International Society for Computational Biology Student Council (ISCB-SC) and its Regional Student Group (RSG) program, takes time and energy. Both are scarce commodities, especially when you are trying to find your place in the world of computational biology as a graduate student. It comes as no surprise that organizing ISCB-SC-related activities sometimes interferes with day-to-day research and shakes up your priority list. However, we unanimously agree that the rewards, both in the short as well as the long term, make the time spent on these extracurricular activities more than worth it. in this article, we will explain what makes this so worthwhile: soft skills.
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ISCB Congratulates the 2014 Wikipedia Competition Winners

During the ISMB conference in July, we announced the winners of this year’s Wikipedia Competition. ISCB conducted an international competition to improve the coverage of the Wikipedia on any aspect of computational biology. A key component of the ISCB's mission is to further the scientific understanding of living systems through computation and to communicate this knowledge to the public at large.

Wikipedia has become an important way to communicate all types of science to the public. The ISCB aims to further its mission by increasing the quality of Wikipedia articles on computational biology, and by improving accessibility to this information. The competition was open to students and trainees at any level either as individuals or as groups. We received 60 entries to the 2014 competition.  

Congratulations to the following winners:

First Place - Point Accepted Mutation
By:  Matthew Zygorodimos and Chris Garnham, University of Melbourne
 


Second Place - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology
By:  Alastair Kilpatrick, University of Edinburgh
 



Third Place - SNV Calling from NGS Data
By: Andrew Bennett & Aparna Elangovan , University of Melbourne

Thank you to all the participants!  ISCB will be announcing the 2015 competition soon.  Watch for details!