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ISCB Buzz: Conference Updates, The ISCB Annual Report, Precision Medicine Initiative & The FAceS Project SurveyISCB Africa 2015 Agenda Now Available!
Join your colleagues for this 3 day conference featuring over 35 research presentations including 5 outstanding keynote speakers! Register today for non-stop networking, training & learning!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 Call for Posters!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology. Submit your poster today to become part of this dynamic conference! Poster Submission deadline is March 12!
Abstract Deadline Approaching for GLBIO 2015
GLBIO is currently soliciting abstracts for oral and poster presentations for the 10th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. This call is an invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of Bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality, original research for presentation at GLBIO 2015.
Hot off the press: The 2014 ISCB Annual Report!
Through the amazing work of volunteers, ISCB is able to continue to be the world's largest international society for computational biology, bringing its members a plethora of opportunities to network and present their science. The 2014 Annual Report highlights the accomplishments of this great organization.
The DREAM9.5 Challenges
We are pleased to announce that the DREAM Olfaction Prediction Challenge, the first of the DREAM9.5 Challenges is now open for participation. This Challenge focuses on predicting behavioral responses to a panel of odors, and features a first-of-its-kind dataset.
The FAceS Project Survey
As part of the FAceS project (www.faces.wi.tum.de/), the Chair for Strategy and Organization (Prof. Isabell M. Welpe) at the Technische Universität München, Germany, is currently conducting a survey about publication practices and performance measurement in science. To attain representative knowledge about publication practices and performance measurement across different countries and disciplines (e.g., biology), we are particularly interested in your assessment and specifications on this topic. Participation in this survey will take approximately 20 minutes. Participants will be offered the chance to participate in the raffle for an iPad mini. Upon request, we will be happy to send you a summary of the results of the survey.
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Meet the ISCB Fellows Class of 2015
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the Fellows Class of 2015. Fellow status is conferred to ISCB members that have distinguished themselves through outstanding contributions to the fields of computational biology and bioinformatics. The ISCB Fellows program began in 2009, and 43 members have been conferred with this status to date. Eight fellows have been selected for this year’s Fellows class, and they will be introduced and profiled at the 2015 ISMB/ECCB meeting in Dublin, Ireland in July. 
Rolf Apweiler
Joint Associate Director and Senior Scientist at European Bioinformatics Institute of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in the United Kingdom
Cyrus Chothia
Emeritus scientist at the Medical Research Council Laboratory of Molecular Biology and emeritus fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University in the United Kingdom
Julio Collado-Vides
Head of the Program of Computational Genomics at the Center for Genomics Sciences, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) in México
Mark Gerstein
Albert L. Williams Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Molecular Biophysics & Biochemistry, and Computer Science at Yale University in the United States
Desmond Higgins
Professor of Bioinformatics at the School of Medicine & Medical Science, Conway Institute, University College Dublin in Ireland
Thomas Lengauer
Professor and Director of the Max Planck Institute of Informatics in Saarbrucken, Germany
Michael Levitt
Professor of Computational Structural Biology, and Robert W. and Vivian K. Cahill Professor in Cancer Research in the School of Medicine, and Professor (by courtesy) of Computer Science at Stanford University in the United States
Burkhard Rost
Alexander von Humboldt Professor, Chair, Bioinformatics and Computational Biololgy, Computer Sciences, Technical University Munich, Germany
ISCB Cyrus Chothia, Curtis Huttenhower, and Larry Hunter Named 2015 ISCB Award Winners
The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award, Overton Prize, and the inaugural Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award. Cyrus Chothia, Emeritus Group Leader at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, England has been selected as the winner of the 2015 Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award. This year’s Overton Prize honors Curtis Huttenhower from the Harvard School of Public Health, and Larry Hunter from the University of Colorado School of Medicine is the first recipient of Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award.
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| 2015 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award: Cyrus Chothia |
The ISCB Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award recognizes leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics for their significant contributions to these fields through research, education, and service.
Cyrus Chothia was selected as the 2015 recipient for his groundbreaking work using computation to understand protein structure and function and the evolution of genomes. Chothia is well known for using computation to study protein structure, and his early work showed that relatively simple principles govern the structure of proteins, regardless of the structural complexity. His research has been critical to understanding and classifying proteins based on structural folds, and he has shown that changes to a protein sequence can be accommodated by structural shifts. More recently, Chothia developed computational approaches based on his knowledge of protein structure to understand how gene duplication and recombination between particular domains drives genome evolution. Chothia’s illustrious career includes election as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2000. He has mentored numerous students and postdoctoral fellows, and many are now rising leaders in their respective fields. Chothia’s work throughout his career has been instrumental to the birth of the fields of structural bioinformatics and computational genomics.
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| 2015 Overton Prize Winner: Curtis Huttenhower |
The Overton Prize recognizes early or mid-career scientists who are emerging leaders in computational biology and bioinformatics for their accomplishments in research, education, and service. The Overton Prize was instituted in 2001 to honor the untimely loss of G. Christian Overton, a leading bioinformatics researcherand founding member of the ISCB Board of Directors. Curtis Huttenhower is this year’s winner of the Overton Prize for his groundbreaking research on microbial communities, with a focus on the human microbiome.
Huttenhower is an Associate Professor of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at the Harvard School of Public Health. He has worked on developing novel computational tools to analyze the large, complex datasets associated with microbial communities and NIH Human Microbiome Project. Huttenhower’s research has provided new insights into how microbial communities impact human health and disease. His research potential has been recognized through the receipt of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers and an NSF CAREER Award.
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| 2015 Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award: Larry Hunter |
2015 marks the inaugural recognition of an ISCB member with the Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award for his or her outstanding service contributions toward the betterment of ISCB through exemplary leadership, education, and service. Larry Hunter is the first winner of this award for his instrumental role in the foundation of ISCB as a scientific society.
Hunter is a Professor and Director of the Center for Computational Biology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. His computational biology research interests include biomedical text mining and knowledge-based computational techniques for analysis of high-throughput data. Hunter began his career as a programmer at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), where he developed a database of researchers interested in artificial intelligence and molecular biology. He invited researchers from this database to a joint NLM-NSF meeting on artificial intelligence in molecular biology in 1992. This meeting developed into the Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology Meeting (ISMB). By 1996, ISMB had emerged as the premier meeting for computational biology research, and members of previous ISMB steering committees concluded that this unique interdisciplinary field needed its own professional society. This group of committee members created the International Society of Computational Biology and elected Larry Hunter as its first president. Hunter has gone on to serve ISCB in many other capacities and continues to be closely involved with ISCB.
ISCB will present the Senior Scientist Award, Overton Prize, and Outstanding Contributions to ISCB at the joint 23rd Annual ISMB/14th Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) being held in Dublin, Ireland, July 10-14th, 2015. Chothia, Huttenhower, and Hunter will present keynote talks during ISMB/ECCB 2015.
Full bibliographical articles profiling the award recipients will be available in the ISMB/ECCB 2015 focus issue of the ISCB newsletter later this year, as well as the ISCB Society Pages in PLOS Computational Biology and OUP Bioinformatics.
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| Highlights Deadline 27-February-2015 |
| Posters Deadline 12-March-2015 |
| LBR Submissions Closes 27-March-2015 |
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Outstanding SIGs and Satellite Meetings to be held at ISMB/ECCB 2015!Mark Your Calendar for the SIG & Satellite Meeting line-up at ISMB/ECCB 2015!!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will hold a number of one and two-day specialized meetings in computational biology. These meetings consist of Special Interest Group Meetings (SIGs) and Satellite Meetings (SMs) and will be held prior to the main conference. A SIG is a one- or two- day focused workshop. It provides a broad and/or deep perspective on developments in a field of research, and is intended as a way to address a topic more extensively than can be done in the main conference.
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ISCB Buzz: Conference Deadlines, FASEB 2016 Science Awards, Cytoscape at RSG & the Advancement & Challenges in Computational BiologyISMB Proceedings - Deadline: January 16!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together Bioinformaticians and Computational Biologists working in a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Papers that demonstrate both the development of new computational techniques and their application to Molecular and Systems Biology, with significant outcomes to biomedical, agricultural, and environmental questions are especially encouraged.
GLBIO Proceedings - Deadline: February 1st!
Full length papers and abstracts are solicited for oral and poster presentations at the 10th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. This call is an invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality original research papers for presentation at GLBIO 2015.
Africa Registration & Late-breaking Posters
ISCB-Africa ASBCB Bioinformatics Conference, open for registration, welcomes late-breaking original research poster submissions! Posters are intended to convey a scientific result that is original work, and are not advertisements for commercial software packages. Posters may cover any area of computational biology. Click here for more information!
RECOMB 2015 Call for Posters & Highlights
RECOMB 2015 invites the submission of abstracts of papers that have been published in a journal after October 1, 2013 or papers that are "in press" at the time of submission and are already linked on the journal web site.
FASEB 2016 Excellence in Science Award Nominations!
FASEB is seeking nominations for its 2016 Excellence in Science Award that recognizes the significant accomplishments of women scientists. We look forward to another list of nominees that reads like a 'Who's Who' of international science, containing the names of outstanding women in science who have accomplished scientific work of lasting impact and have contributed substantially to training the next generation of scientists.
Cytoscape at RSG 2014!
The Cytoscape team was thrilled to be a part of this year's Regulatory and Systems Genomics conference along with DREAM Challenges. Thanks to support from the National Resource for Network Biology (http://nrnb) and Agilent Technologies, we were able to host a number of unique events integrated into the meeting.
Advancements & Challenges in Computational Biology
Ruth Nussinov, PhD, Editor-in-Chief of PLOS Computational Biology & ISCB Fellow gives a detailed perspective on significant computational biology advances of the last decade, and reflects on some key challenges ahead.
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