Award Winners

Awards and acknowledgments video of Closing Ceremonies

ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award
Michael Ashburner, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
From sequences to ontologies - adventures in informatics

ISCB Overton Prize Lecture
Olga Troyanskaya
Princeton University , New Jersey, United States
Integrating computation and experiments for a molecular-level understanding of human disease

Ian Lawson Van Toch Memorial Award – Outstanding Student Paper
Sara Berthoumieux
INRIA, France
Identification of metaboloic network models from incomplete high-throughput datasets

JBI Award for the Best Paper in Translational Bioinformatics
Ankur Parikh, Carnegie Mellon University, United States,
Wei Wu, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, United States
Both authors contributed equally to this paper
TREEGL: Reverse Engineering Tree-evolving Gene Networks Underlying Developing Biological Lineages

Outstanding Poster
Adam Sardar, University of Bristol, United Kingdom
The Darwinian Tree of Life in Light of Horizontal Gene Transfer (Is Still Sound)

RCSB PDB Poster Award
Tammy Cheng, Cancer Research UK
Structural Biology Meets Systems Biology: A Structural Systems Biology Approach for Gauging the Systemic Effect of Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms

Killer App Winner
Syed Asad Rahman, EMBL-European Bioinformatics Institute
ECBlast: a novel tool for searching similar enzymes based on chemical knowledge

Art and Science Award
Anna Dehof, Saarland University, Germany
Reflections on Protein Structures

Honorable Mention:
MajaKlevanski, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Protein Art

Orienteering Winners
Winning Team: Wang, Stelman, Murray &Meintjes
Runner Up: Khan, Seemann, Warsow, Barber