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UPCOMING DEADLINES & NOTICES

  • Confirmation of Participation notices sent
    GLBIO 2024
    April 15, 2024
  • Late poster author notification
    RECOMB 2024
    April 19, 2024
  • Late registration deadline
    RECOMB 2024
    April 19, 2024
  • Last day for presenting and poster authors to complete registration *no extensions*
    GLBIO 2024
    April 22, 2024
  • Late poster submissions open (posters only)
    ISMB 2024
    April 22, 2024
  • Talks and posters submissions deadline
    ECCB 2024
    April 23, 2024
  • Registration deadline for organisers and speakers
    ECCB 2024
    April 30, 2024
  • Last day to upload ANY/ALL files to the virtual Platform
    GLBIO 2024
    May 06, 2024
  • Acceptance notification for talks and posters
    ECCB 2024
    May 08, 2024
  • Tech track proposal deadline (closes earlier if capacity is reached)
    ISMB 2024
    May 10, 2024
  • Early bird registration opens
    APBJC 2024
    May 10, 2024
  • Talk and/or poster acceptance notifications
    ISMB 2024
    May 13, 2024
  • Conference fellowship invitations sent for early abstract accepted talks and posters
    ISMB 2024
    May 13, 2024
  • (Conditional) Acceptance notification for proceedings
    ECCB 2024
    May 15, 2024
  • Registration deadline for talk presenting authors
    ECCB 2024
    May 15, 2024
  • CAMDA extended abstracts deadline
    ISMB 2024
    May 20, 2024
  • Late poster submissions deadline
    ISMB 2024
    May 20, 2024
  • Conference fellowship application deadline
    ISMB 2024
    May 20, 2024
  • Revised paper deadline
    ECCB 2024
    May 25, 2024
  • Tech track acceptance notification
    ISMB 2024
    May 31, 2024
  • Last day for discounted student hotel booking
    ISMB 2024
    May 27, 2024
  • Late poster acceptance notifications
    ISMB 2024
    May 28, 2024
  • CAMDA acceptance notification
    ISMB 2024
    May 30, 2024
  • Complete workshop/tutorial programme with speakers and schedule online
    ECCB 2024
    May 30, 2024
  • Conference fellowship acceptance notification
    ISMB 2024
    May 31, 2024
  • Tech track presentation schedule posted
    ISMB 2024
    May 31, 2024
  • Final acceptance notification for proceedings
    ECCB 2024
    May 31, 2024

Upcoming Conferences

A Global Community

  • ISCB Student Council

    dedicated to facilitating development for students and young researchers

  • Affiliated Groups

    The ISCB Affiliates program is designed to forge links between ISCB and regional non-profit membership groups, centers, institutes and networks that involve researchers from various institutions and/or organizations within a defined geographic region involved in the advancement of bioinformatics. Such groups have regular meetings either in person or online, and an organizing body in the form of a board of directors or steering committee. If you are interested in affiliating your regional membership group, center, institute or network with ISCB, please review these guidelines (.pdf) and send your exploratory questions to Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Chief Executive Officer (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).  For information about the Affilliates Committee click here.

  • Communities of Special Interest

    Topically-focused collaborative communities

  • ISCB Member Directory

    Connect with ISCB worldwide

  • Green ISCB

    Environmental Sustainability Effort

  • Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

    ISCB is committed to creating a safe, inclusive, and equal environment for everyone

Professional Development, Training, and Education

ISCBintel and Achievements

Floor Plan

Exhibitor Floor Plan
PDF of Hynes Center - 3rd Floor Plan
Exhibitor Profiles


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Booth

Exhibitor Booth Exhibitor
1   2
3 Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc 4 BioTeam Inc.
5 Cambridge University Press
6 FASEB
7 BioMed Central
8 Springer
9 The MIT Press 10 PLoS Computational Biology
11   12 Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC)
13 ISCB Student Council 14 ISCB Student Council
15 International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) 16 International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
17 IMGT-International ImMunoGeneTics Information System 18 CLC bio
19
20 Oxford University Press
21 CRC Press - Taylor & Francis 22 CRC Press - Taylor & Francis
23 EMBL-EBI
24 RCSB Protein Data Bank
25 BIOBASE 26 Geneious Software-Biomatters Ltd
27   28  
29   30  
31   32  
33   34  
35   36  

 

Booth 2:

Hewlett Packard
www.hp.com/go/health

As a world-leading information technology company, HP applies new thinking and ideas to create more simple, valuable and trusted experiences with technology.  Our focus is to continuously improve the way our customers live and work through technology products and services, form the individual consumer to the largest enterprise.  More information can be found at www.hp.com

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Booth 3:

Accelerated Technology Laboratories, Inc
www.atlab.com

ATL is a laboratory informatics firm that is launching a new product called SeqNFind™. SeqNFind™  is a unique hardware/software cluster system that leverages a multi-processing environment to do fast, accurate and complete short read genomic sequence alignments using a modified Smith-Waterman with GPUs to examine short read local alignments.

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Booth 4:

BioTeam Inc
www.bioteam.net

As a high-performance consulting practice, BioTeam delivers solutions to address the IT, storage, and data management challenges faced by scientists BioTeam enables science by bringing together technologies that turn research into results.

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Booth 5:

Cambridge University Press
www.cambridge.org/us

Cambridge's publishing in books and journals combines state-of-the-art content with the highest standards of scholarship, writing and production. Visit our stand to browse new titles, available at a 20% discount, and to pick up sample issues of our journals. Visit our website to see everything we do: www.cambridge.org/us/.

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Booth 6:

FASEB
marc.faseb.org

FASEB MARC Program provides a variety of activities to support the training of minority students, postdoctorates, faculty and scientists in the biomedical and behavioral sciences. We offer travel awards for scientific meetings, research conferences, and student summer research opportunities programs. We also sponsor Career Development Programs including grantsmanship training seminars.

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Booth 7:

BioMed Central
www.biomedcentral.com

BioMed Central is the open access publisher committed to the free widespread dissemination of scientific research and publishing over 200 peer-reviewed open access journals, including BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Systems Biology. BioMed Central is part of Springer, one of the leading publishers of STM journals and books. Springer's booth is just next door.

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Booth 8:

Springer
www.springer.com

Stop by the Springer booth to get acquainted with our multi-format publishing model.  Get hands-on experience with Springer ebooks on one of the world’s largest STM content platforms, SpringerLink .  Test drive highlights online, in print, and on ebook readers.  Ask about your Springer MyCopy

Springer’s presence this year goes hand-in-hand with BioMed Central,  the world’s leading open access journals publisher.  See what our synergies in e-publishing mean for you.  BioMed Central’s booth is just next door.

 

Booth 9:

The MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu

The MIT Press publishes texts, monographs and journals in biology, computational biology and related fields. Please visit our booth and receive a 30% discount on all titles purchased.

 

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Booth 10:

PLoS Computational Biology
www.plos.org

PLoS Computational Biology (www.ploscompbiol.org) is one of seven open-access, peer-reviewed journals punblished by the Public Library of Science (PLoS), a nonprofit organization of scientists and physicians committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature a freely available public resource.

 

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Booth 12:

Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC)
www.cbrc.jp/index.eng.html

Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC) belongs to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), which is the largest national research institute in Japan. CBRC has been conducting computational biology research and software/database development since 2001, and now over 100 researchers are working in CBRC.

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Booth 13 & 14:

ISCB Student Council
www.iscbsc.org

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. The SC Career Central booth is an endeavor to address the needs of recruiters and job seekers at ISMB. We will also be providing resume critique services to students and post-docs searching for jobs.

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Booth 15 & 16:

International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
http://www.iscb.org

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB - www.iscb.org) organizes and hosts the Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), now in its 18th year. The mission of ISCB is to advance the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. On behalf of its global membership, ISCB communicates the significance of our science to the larger scientific community, governments, and the public at large, thus impacting government and scientific policies.

Primary activities include providing high quality publications and meetings, and distributing valuable information about training, education, employment and relevant news from related fields. ISCB membership offers many benefits including reduced conference registration fees to several high impact conferences, most prominently ISMB, ECCB, PSB and RECOMB. ISCB proudly offers Bioinformatics and the open-access PLoS Computational Biology as its official journals, and publishes the ISMB conference proceedings in partnership with Oxford University Press in open-access format as part of a regular issue of Bioinformatics. In addition, ISCB members enjoy exclusive subscription discounts on a selection of journals related to computational biology and bioinformatics.

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Booth 17
IMGT - International ImMunoGeneTics Information System
www.imgt.org

IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system®,
http://www.imgt.org, created in 1989 by Marie-Paule Lefranc (Université
Montpellier 2, CNRS) is the global reference in immunogenetics and immunoinformatics, specialized in the immunoglobulins (IG) or antibodies, T cell receptors (TR), major histocompatibility complex (MHC), IgSF and MhcSF and related proteins of the immune system.


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Booth 18
CLC bio
www.clcbio.com

CLC bio is the world's leading bioinformatics solution provider, focusing on delivering powerful, flexible, and user-friendly solutions to researchers working with high-throughput sequencing data from all major 2nd and 3rd generation sequencing platforms.

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Booth 20

Oxford University Press
www.oxfordjournals.org

Oxford University Press publishes some of the most prestigious books and journals in the world, including Bioinformatics, an official journal of the International Society for Computational Biology, Nucleic Acids Research, and Briefings in Bioinformatics. Visit our stand to browse books and pick up journal sample copies.
Visit us online: www.oxfordjournals.org.

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Booth 21 & 22

CRC Press - Taylor & Francis
www.taylorandfrancis.com

Chapman & Hall/CRC - Taylor & Francis Group publishes books, journals and electronic databases. Check out new titles in our mathematical and computational biology series (including Edwin Wang Cancer Systems Biology) and key titles from our Garland list, including Understanding Bioinformatics and Molecular Biology of the Cell. Take advantage of 15-25% (50% off selected titles) convention discounts.

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Booth 23

EMBL-EBI
www.ebi.ac.uk

The EBI’s resources allow bioinformatics researchers to capitalize on data from genomic and post-genomic projects. Building on over 20 years’ experience, we maintain and provide unrestricted access to a comprehensive range of biological data resources including EMBL-Bank, Ensembl, ArrayExpress, UniProt, PDBe, InterPro, IntAct, PRIDE, Reactome and ChEBI, as well as a host of bioinformatics tools.

 

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Booth 24

RCSB Protein Data Bank
www.pdb.org
kb.psi-structuralgenomics.org

The RCSB PDB (www.pdb.org) and the PSI Structural Genomics Knowledgebase (kb.psi-structuralgenomics.org) are resources for studying the biological macromolecules and their relationships to sequence, function, and disease.

 

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Booth 25

BIOBASE
biobase-international.com

BIOBASE is a leading provider of biological databases and analysis tools. The BIOBASE Knowledge Library™ (BKL) includes BKL PROTEOME™ for disease and yeast research, BKL TRANSFAC®, for gene regulation research, the ExPlain analysis system, and the Human Gene Mutation Database® (HGMD), for inherited disease mutation data.

 

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Booth 26:

Geneious Software - Biomatters Ltd
www.geneious.com

Biomatters is the company behind Geneious, inspirational software that combines leading DNA and protein sequence analysis tools into one revolutionary solution for biologists. Headquartered in New Zealand, Biomatters develops unique and easy-to-use bioinformatics software with a vision to improve science in disease research, human health and environmental issues.

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Additional Sponsor Opportunities*

**Sponsor Sign Up

Delegate bags* US $10,000: single sponsorship available or two organizations as joint sponsors at US $6000 per organization. Includes color logo on satchel and opportunity to include one promotional brochure in satchel.

Conference T-Shirts* US $10,000: Includes organization logo on t-shirt and one promotional brochure in delegate satchel.

Opening Reception US $10,000: Fun filled evening of food and entertainment: Single sponsorship or up to three organizations as joint sponsors at US $4,000 per organization. Includes event signage and one promotional brochure in delegate satchel.

Poster Reception with Authors US $6,000: Single sponsorship or up to three organizations as joint sponsors at US $2,500 per organization. Includes event signage and one promotional brochure in delegate satchel.

Refreshment Breaks US $3,000: Single sponsorship or two companies as joint sponsors at US $2,000 per organization per break. Includes event signage recognizing refreshment break sponsor(s).

Keynote Speaker Sponsorship US $4,000: Supports keynote travel expenses. Sponsoring organization recognized on web-site and during keynote presentation.

Name Badge Lanyards* US $3,000: exclusive sponsorship available to one organization.

Volunteer T-Shirts* US $3,000: exclusive sponsorship available to one organization.

Inclusion of marketing materials in delegate bags US $2000: Organizations can include one piece of marketing literature in delegate bags.

Student Travel Fellowship US $1,500: Each year organizations support travel and expenses for students to attend the ISMB 2010 conference.

*(Organization name will be listed on the item along with the conference logo. ISCB retains the rights for logo placement and item production.)

Industry Poster Package**

For profit organization US$1,000
Not for profit organization US$500

  • One poster display in industry poster section
  • Name listed in conference program book
  • One (1) exhibit hall only pass (no access to scientific sessions or conference meals)

There will be no tables, chairs or areas to display brochures or literature at this location. This will be "posters only."

** Prices do not include conference registration and presenters must be registered for the conference.

Technology Track Presentations**

For profit organization US$2,000
Not for profit organization US$400

Technology Track allow organizations to showcase their software/hardware relevant to the bioinformatics / computational biology community.

  • 50 minute presentation time allotted to for-profit organizations or 25 minute presentation time allotted to not-for-profit organizations (scheduled by the organizers)
  • Technology track presentation listing on the conference Web site and the conference program book, including demonstration time in the main schedule and a 50 word summary
  • Abstract listing on conference web site for overview of technology track presentation
  • Audio-Visual equipment provided includes internet connection, data projector, screen, microphone (all additional equipment required will be charged at cost to the presenting organization)

** Prices do not include conference registration and presenters must be registered for the conference.

Sponsorship Benefits

Sponsor Signup Form

Premier Sponsorship Benefits

ISMB 2010 offers interested organizations specialized opportunities designed exclusively for Premier Sponsors. Premier sponsor benefits include ISCB and conference customized packages designed to meet your specific marketing strategy and to establish your organization as a leader in the life sciences field.

To discuss a Premier Sponsorship opportunity, please contact Steven Leard at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call +1-780-414-1663.

Platinum Benefits

For profit organization US$22,000
Not for profit organization US$15,500

  • One (1) exhibit booth (Preferred location)
  • Two (2) technology track presentations (scheduled by the organizers)
  • Four invitations to Sponsor and Exhibitor Reception - Monday, July 12
  • Logo slide during opening session
  • Full page black and white advertisement in the conference program
  • Organization logo with link to organization on the ISMB 2010 web site index page
  • Organization logo with link to organization on the ISMB 2010 website sponsorship page
  • Organization name and description listed as "Platinum Sponsor" in conference program
  • Electronic list of conference delegates pre and post event
  • Organization brochure in delegate registration bag
  • Four (4) full conference registrations including tutorials and off-site social event
  • Five (5) additional exhibit hall passes (no access to scientific sessions or conference meals)
  • Discounted registration for full conference participation for up to five (5) additional staff

Please note all prices are quoted in US dollars

Gold Benefits

For profit organization US$13,500
Not for profit organization US$8,000

  • Up to one (1) exhibit booth
  • One (1) technology track presentation (scheduled by the organizers)
  • Two invitations to Sponsor and Exhibitor Reception - Monday, July 12
  • Logo slide during opening session
  • Half-page black & white advertisement in conference program
  • Organization name listed on ISMB 2010 Web site sponsorship page
  • Organization name and description listed as "Gold Sponsor" in conference program
  • Electronic list of conference delegates pre and post event
  • Two (2) full conference registrations including tutorials and off-site social event
  • Three (3) additional exhibit hall passes (no access to scientific sessions or conference meals)
  • Discounted registration for full conference participation for up to three (3) additional staff

Silver Benefits (Exhibitor space not included in silver sponsorship package)

For profit organization US$7,000
Not for profit organization US$4,500

  • One (1) technology track presentation (scheduled by the organizers)
  • Invitation to Sponsor and Exhibitor Reception - Monday, July 12
  • Logo slide during opening session
  • Half-page black & white advertisement in conference program
  • Organization name listed on ISMB 2010 Web site sponsorship page
  • Organization name and description listed as "Silver Sponsor" in the conference program
  • Electronic list of conference delegates pre and post event
  • One (1) full conference registration including tutorials and off-site social event
  • Discounted registration for full conference participation for up to two (2) additional staff

Sponsor Signup Form

To confirm your participation or for additional information contact:

Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 1+780-414-1663

Or write:
International Society for Computational Biology
c/o BJ Morrison McKay
University of California/San Diego Supercomputer Ctr
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0505
La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 USA

Exhibitor Package**

For profit organization US$3,500
Not for profit organization US$2,500

  • Display space, pipe and drape structure and furniture package of table, chairs and power (10ft x 8 ft)
  • Three (3) exhibit hall passes (no access to scientific sessions or conference meals)
  • Organization listed on conference website and in conference program book
  • Company name on exhibition signage
  • Wireless internet available in exhibit area
  • New: Opportunity to register one staff member for the full conference at special discounted rate

** Does not include conference registration

Past Sponsors and Exhibitors

Accelrys
AMD
Apple Computer, Inc.
Ariadne Genomics
Biobase Corporation
Biomax Informatics AG
BioMed Central
BioSapiens
Biosystems Informatics Institute
Cambridge University Press
CRC Press - Taylor & Francis Books, Inc.
CSIRO Mathematical & Information Sciences
Elsevier MDL
EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
EMBRACE
Gene Logic Inc.
GenomeWeb, LLC
GlaxoSmithKline
Grand Valley State University
Hewlett-Packard
IBM
Michigan Center for Biological Information, CTA Alliance
Nature Publishing Group
Ocimum Biosolutions
Orion Multisystems
Oxford University Press
Partek Incorporated
Pfizer, Inc.
PLoS Computational Biology
PubGene
RCSB Protein Data Bank
SGI
SciTegic
Springer
Sun Microsystems
Synamatix
The Blueprint Initiative
The MathWorks
The MIT Press
The University of Michigan Bioinformatics Program
U.S. Department of Energy
U.S. National Institutes of Health
U.S. National Science Foundation
Unleashed Informatics Limited
John Wiley & Sons
World Scientific Publishing and Imperial College Press

Sponsorship Opportunities

** Sponsor Sign-up**
 

ISMB – The Life Sciences Event of 2010

Year after year organizations from around the globe support and participate in ISMB as a critical component of their marketing strategy. For them, ISMB has become "the must attend life sciences event" of the year. Because ISMB provides sponsors and exhibitors with a measurable return on investment they continue to renew and expand their support with each new conference.

 

ISMB attracts top international scientists and key decision makers in the life sciences - experts in areas such as computer science, molecular biology and medicine, mathematics and statistics - from the world's largest and most prestigious research institutions. These experts have come to see ISMB as an opportunity to seek out and learn about the new tools, technologies, publications and services featured by sponsors and exhibitors. ISMB 2010 at the Hynes Convention Centre in the heart of Boston, USA is your organization's opportunity to reach this global market in one place at one time.

 

Sponsorship options have been designed for every budget level and the organizers can arrange a flexible solution for your marketing requirements. By committing now you can take full advantage of this opportunity to enhance your organization's visibility, expand your network of prospects, meet up with your current clients and positively impact your bottom line sales at ISMB 2010.

 

We look forward to your participation in Boston!

To confirm your sponsorship or for additional information contact:

Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 1+780-414-1663
Sponsor Brochure
 


 

Sponsorship Packages
Premier Sponsorship
Customized Packages Available
Platinum Sponsorship
For profit organization US$22,000; Not for profit organization US$15,500
Gold Sponsorship
For profit organization US$13,500; Not for profit organization US$8,000
Silver Sponsorship
For profit organization US$7,000; Not for profit organization US$4,500

Exhibitor Package
For profit organization US$3,500
Not for profit organization US$2,500

Technology Track Presentations
For profit organization US$2,000
Not for profit organization US$400

Industry Poster Package
For profit organization US$1,000 Not for profit organization US$500

Additional Sponsor Opportunities

Past Sponsors and Exhibitors


To confirm your participation or for additional information contact:

Steven Leard, ISCB Conferences Director

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Phone: 1+780-414-1663
 

Or write:
International Society for Computational Biology
c/o BJ Morrison McKay
University of California/San Diego Supercomputer Ctr
Pharmaceutical Sciences Building, Room 3230
9500 Gilman Drive, MC 0743
La Jolla, CA 92093-0743 USA

** Sponsor Sign-up**

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