Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Leading Professional Society for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Connecting, Training, Empowering, Worldwide
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
As a final reminder, ISCB is seeking proposals from individuals or groups interested in hosting the next open ISCB-Asia conference, slated for the third quarter of 2013, to co-organize this meeting with ISCB anywhere in the Asia region. Without exception the proposal deadline is the 1st of August, 2012. If you are not personally interested but know of someone else who could do an excellent job of organizing this event, please feel free to forward this mail. An overview of ISCB, its expansion into regionally-based international meetings, and the details of the proposal requirements are all specified below.
ISCB-Asia 2013 Meeting
The aim of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is to serve the worldwide computational biology community by addressing scientific policies, providing access to high quality publications, organising meetings, and serving as a portal to information about training, education, employment and news from related fields. ISCB currently has over 3000 members from more than 70 countries around the world. Among its many activities ISCB hosts annual meetings, including ISMB, the world's longest running and largest international bioinformatics conference (held jointly with ECCB every other year in Europe), as well as a series of smaller, newer meetings. ISCB also has affiliations in place with several other significant meetings in the field, such as PSB and RECOMB.
In an extension to its meeting activities, ISCB is participating in the organization of regional meetings in locations where ISMB has not been held. In 2009 and 2011 joint ISCB-Africa meetings were held in collaboration with the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB), and the 2013 meeting is now being planned for Tunis, Tunisia; in 2010 and 2012 ISCB-Latin America was held in Uruguay and Chile, respectively; the first ISCB-Asia was held jointly with InCoB 2011 in Malaysia, and the 2012 meeting is now being planned for China (Shenzhen). With the aim of continuing these successful regional meetings, ISCB is now soliciting applications for the co-organization of our next meeting in Asia for 2013.
A requirement that ISCB-Asia become permanently affiliated to an existing meeting or society is not intended. Having co-organised the ISCB-Asia meeting with the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network in 2011 and with BGI in 2012, ISCB now looks to continue expanding its network of affiliations by seeking proposals from other existing societies or conferences in the Asia region, or by working with a group that has a similar interest in organising a new bioinformatics community meeting in Asia.
Preliminary proposals should provide (all of this information is also available as a PDF download):
ISCB will:
Criteria for evaluation
Proposals should be submitted via email to
Thank you,
Paul Horton, Chair, ISCB Conferences Committee
Janet Kelso, Co-Chair, ISCB Conferences Committee
December 6 - 8 , 2012, Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, USA
Dear ISCB Members and Colleagues,
Please join us for the 10th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference! The Rocky conference series has grown from a small regional event into an international program with a spotlight on regional development in the computational biosciences. Invited and accepted presenters represent a broad spectrum of universities, industrial enterprises, government laboratories, and medical libraries from around the world. The meeting is a chance to get to know your colleagues near and far, seek collaborative opportunities, and find synergies that can drive our field forward.
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: The Rocky 2012 Conference (www.iscb.org/rocky2012) provides opportunities for short flash presentations (10 minute talks) on current projects from as many attendees as possible. Original presentations (including significant works-in-progress) are solicited in all areas that involve the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.
Submitters are given the option to apply for a 10-minute "flash" oral presentation, a poster presentation, or both. We will attempt to accommodate all requests from authors accepted for presentation. The submission form is located here: www.iscb.org/rocky2012-program/rocky2012-call-for-presentations.
Submission Form Key Dates:
EARLY REGISTRATION IS OPEN: Take advantage of early registration rates by visiting: www.iscb.org/rocky2012-register. Please note that accepted presenters must register as a conference attendee by November 6 in order to give a presentation at Rocky 2012.
We look forward to your participation! Please feel free to share this invitation with your colleagues and collaborators - the Rocky conference offers a special Academic Retreat package for groups attending from the same lab or school, including a free student registration.
We hope to see you there!
The Rocky 2012 Conference Organizing Team
Dear colleague,
We are still accepting submissions of papers and abstracts for the 5th annual joint RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, which is now an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology, and one of the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology. The meeting will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.
*** The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012. ***
Submission information is available at http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.
This conference is designed to present the latest findings about regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation.
Invited speakers include: Howard Chang, Job Dekker, Angela DePace, Joe Ecker, Yoav Gilad, Len Pennacchio, Saurabh Sinha, Stephen Friend, Jonathan Weissman, Dean Felsher, Michael Elowitz, Joe Nadeau, Markus Covert, Joe Gray, and Ernest Fraenkel.
We are now accepting submissions of full-length papers to be considered for publication in Genome Research and the Journal of Computational Biology. Accepted papers will be published in conjunction with the conference and authors of selected papers will be invited to present their work at the meeting. Our program committee will review all submitted papers in collaboration with the journal editors and the conference chairs.
We are also accepting submissions of abstracts, including both original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for publication by a high-impact journal between January 1 and November 1, 2012. Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation. Work already accepted for publication will be considered for an oral presentation only.
Lastly, we are also excited to announce that we invite nominations for RegGen-TopTen 2011, our list of the most influential papers of 2011 in the fields of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, in conjunction with the ISMB Special Interest Group on Regulatory Genomics (RegGen SIG). First and last authors of these papers will be honored at the meeting and highlighted online. All nominations will be evaluated by leaders in the field, including our past keynote speakers.
Areas of interest for papers, abstracts, and nominations include:
We are also still accepting submissions for participation in the DREAM Challenges, designed to identify the best practices for predicting the structure of biological networks.
We hope that you will participate and look forward to seeing you in San Francisco this November!
Best regards,
Andrea Califano, Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Conference Chairs
ISCB-Asia/SCCG 2012, co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19. Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero
Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by
several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational
tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible
biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including
ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centers.
Shenzhen is a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a
pleasant climate during December.
Call for Highlights: We invite the
submission of talks describing research published as full journal papers between
August 31, 2011 and September 30, 2012 of topics including, but not limited to:
computational tools for NGS, cancer genome informatics, cloud and work flows for
reproducible bioinformatics, protein bioinformatics, metagenomics, RNA
informatics, machine learning, and open problems in computational biology.
Publications that are "in press" and already linked on the journal web site by
September 30, 2012 are welcome. A group of experts will select the papers to be
presented at the meeting considering the impact of the work on the field, the
likelihood that the work will make a good presentation, and the relevance to
biomedicine and computational biology. Accepted presenters to the Highlights
Track are required to make the presentation themselves (rather than assign a
co-author to make the presentation), and must register and pay to attend the
conference.
Submissions should include a 250-word Scientific
Justification (abstract-like argument) that explains how the work of the
submitted paper(s) is impacting the field.
Please note the following
dates:
Please submit your Highlights papers directly to the ISCB submission site at
www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=128
Call for Posters:
Poster abstracts in the same topic areas are also invited. Please submit your
poster directly to the ISCB submission site at
www.iscb.org/submissions/index.php?id=129 by the submission deadline of
October 31, 2012. Accepted poster presenters must register and pay to attend the
conference.
We look forward to receiving your submissions,
Victor
Jin, The Ohio State University - Program Committee Chair
Paul Horton,
AIST Japan - Conference Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair
Dear ISCB Members
and Colleagues,
The deadline for submissions for the 5th annual joint
RECOMB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges, is
just two weeks away. We invite you to participate by submitting a paper or
abstract.
For more information, visit:
http://recomb-2012.c2b2.columbia.edu/.
The 5th annual joint RECOMB
Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges is one of
the premier annual meetings for computational and experimental scientists in the
fields of regulatory genomics and systems biology, and is now an official
conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. The meeting
will be held at the Hotel Sofitel San Francisco Bay on November 12-15, 2012.
All submissions of full-length papers will be considered for publication in
Genome Research and the Journal of Computational Biology. Accepted papers will
be published in conjunction with the conference and authors of selected papers
will present their work at the meeting. Our program committee will review all
submitted papers in collaboration with the journal editors and the conference
chairs.
We are also accepting submissions of abstracts, including both
original unpublished work and work that has been published or accepted for
publication by a high-impact journal between January 1 and November 1, 2012.
Unpublished work will be considered for either an oral or a poster presentation.
Work already accepted for publication will be considered for an oral
presentation only.
***The deadline for all submissions is September 7, 2012 ***
This conference is designed to present the latest findings about
regulatory and systems genomics, foster discussion about current research
directions, and establish new collaborations that will advance the development
of a systems-level understanding of gene regulation. Areas of interest for
papers, abstracts, and nominations include:
We are also still accepting submissions for participation in the DREAM
Challenges, designed to identify the best practices for predicting the structure
of biological networks. Lastly, we are also still inviting nominations for
RegGen-TopTen 2011, our list of the most influential papers of 2011 in the
fields of Regulatory and Systems Genomics, in conjunction with the ISMB Special
Interest Group on Regulatory Genomics (RegGen SIG). See our website above for
more information.
We are looking forward to very exciting program. Our
invited speakers include Howard Chang, Job Dekker, Angela DePace, Joe Ecker,
Yoav Gilad, Len Pennacchio, Saurabh Sinha, Stephen Friend, Jonathan Weissman,
Dean Felsher, Michael Elowitz, Joe Nadeau, Markus Covert, Joe Gray, and Ernest
Fraenkel.
We hope that you will participate and look forward to seeing
you in San Francisco this November!
Best regards,
Andrea Califano,
Manolis Kellis, Sylvia Plevritis, and Gustavo Stolovitzky
Conference
Chairs