Announcements

If you are a member of ISCB, we encourage you to submit entries to the Science collection and Tutorial collection. Your submission entails a pointer to the science content, a short description of background or purpose (two lines) and lists your name as submitter. Submission will be subjected to a basic check of scope and purpose.

You find the relevant submission forms here - www.iscb.org/covid19-submissions.

• ISCB COVID-19 Statements. Here you find statements on the ongoing pandemic that have been issued by ISCB.
• ISCB COVID-19 Webinar collection. Here you find webinars specific to the topics of COVID-19 and Sars Cov-2 that are organized by ISCB.
• ISCB COVID-19 Science collection. Here you find materials specific to the topics of COVID-19 and Sars Cov-2 that have been submitted by ISCB members. This collection has three subsections for (i) scientific articles, (ii) scientific data sets and, (iii) proposals of community science projects.
• ISCB Tutorial collection. Here you find tutorials that present basic or advanced computational biology content for biologists and computational biologists in these times of increased digital education activity. The tutorials have been (i) presented at recent ISCB conferences and (ii) suggested by ISCB members.

Submit your research to ISCB-LA

• Bioinformatic strategies and methods to unravel RNA Genomics
• Computational Molecular Biology to Study Evolution in Microorganisms
• Development of Tools and Applications: Usability and Accessibility
• Ecology and Evolution
• Methods applied to Human Genetic studies
• Methods and Algorithms in Computational Molecular Biology
• Population dynamics and Evolution in Eukaryotes
• Strategies in Cancer Genomics: From family to population studies
• All other related areas
  
  

​More Submission Opportunities:

Flash Talk and Poster Only Submission Deadline: August 20, 2020
Article Submission to Royal Society Deadline: August 30, 2020

More details and submission criteria

July 30, 2020 at 9:00AM EDT, Southern African Human Population Structure - an Opportunity to Expand Genomics Research Worldwide by Caitlin Uren, hosted by ASBCB

Human genetic diversity in southern Africa is vast, complex and unique. Identifying and characterizing population structure in this region is not a trivial task but when performed correctly, allows for this information to be included in numerous genomic analyses such as studies investigating a populations’ demographic and genetic history and the association between this history and both Mendelian and complex diseases. I will discuss results from our population genetic and demographic studies and how this is related to various phenotypes (with a focus on tuberculosis susceptibility), and discuss various aspects of genomics that in my opinion are greatly lacking in southern Africa. I will conclude by discussing how populations worldwide will benefit from genomics research in this region.