Bioinform newsletter has run a series of articles about aspects of the ISMB 2012 conference that are accessible with a subscription. Academics enrolling with their institution email address can subscribe to the newsletter for free to see any Bioinform content. (Subscribing with a non-institutional email address will trigger a payment request from the system, so be sure to use your academic address.) Below are the Bioinform articles:

 

1) Tool roundup

 

2) Brown University haplotype tool

 

3) Larry Hunter Q&A

 

4) Scripps Games

5) Wikipedia contest

 

6) Computational Tools from MSU Team Aim to Ease Memory Requirements for Sequence Assembly
 

BMC Bioinformatics, Catherine Rice, Executive Editor, has published an overview of the conference on the BMC Series blog, http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2012/07/26/bmc-bioinformatics-and-bmc-genomics-met-ismb-2012/

GigaScience Editor Scott Edmunds discusses the pre-ISMB Bioinformatics Open Source Conf (http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/gigablog/2012/07/16/searching-for-the-open-source-at-long-beach/)

BMC Publisher Iain Hrynaszkiewicz shares his contributions to a panel discussion on peer review standards. (http://blogs.biomedcentral.com/bmcblog/2012/07/24/how-do-we-standardize-peer-review-of-bioinformatics-software/)