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ISCB Affiliated Regional Group Application

For Regional/National Membership Organizations

If you are interested in establishing an official affiliation between your regional or national membership group and ISCB, we welcome your application by completing the form below for review by the ISCB Affiliates Committee. It generally takes up to four weeks from the time an application is submitted before a determination is made. If the affiliation is approved we will work together to implement the affiliation details. To read the Affiliates Guidelines and the Benefits, please click here.

Please enter your Name and E-mail below and click on continue to proceed with the application:

ISCB Affiliates Conference Application

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ISCB is passionate about fostering a vibrant and collaborative community within the field of computational biology. Through our Collaborative Conference Program, we aim to support and amplify the efforts of our dedicated members, offering opportunities for professional growth, networking, and collaboration. Join us in our mission to advance computational biology and make a lasting impact by submitting your application to the ISCB Collaborative Conference Program. Explore the benefits of our program and see how you can become an integral part of this initiative. ISCB welcomes both established and conferences under development. 

Collaboration Levels

*Organizers have the option to use the ISCB registration system and other support services, with applicable fees. Organizers and co-organizers are also expected to support marketing and fundraising.

Organizer Expectations

ISCB Commitments

Application

Applicants must complete the online application.  Application will include but not limited to:

• Conference Abstract describing the aims and goals of the conference to include topic areas covered
• Organizers Name(s), institution(s) and email address(es)
• Potential Program Committee Members (one per line)
• Target audience
• Distribution of Attendees (in percentage): Students, Academics, Industry
• Previous conferences held, if any (name, years held and url)
• How is this conference of direct interest to the ISCB member community
• List of potential/confirmed invited speakers (including name and institution)
• List of potential/confirmed sponsors (company/institute/government agency names)

Proposal Decisions

Proposal submitted for:

• Affiliation consideration take approximately four (4) weeks for review to approval
• Associated consideration take approximately four (4) weeks for review to approval
• Collaborative consideration take approximately four (4) to six (6) months for review and approval
• Supported/official consideration take approximately six (6) to nine (9) months but preferred proposal be submitted one (1) year in advance for budgeting purposes

Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion

ISCB is committed to sustaining diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion in the field of computational biology and bioinformatics. Our goal is to create and support a conference environment that is welcoming and safe for all. ISCB believes inclusion of diverse participants, including attendees and speakers, is critical to the scientific and educational integrity of conferences. Organizers are expected to design programs that reflect this commitment.

Please enter your Name and E-mail below and click on continue to proceed with the application:

Worldwide Communities

Links to Other Computational Biology or Bioinformatics Information servers
We will do our best to make sure that the links here are active. Please let us know if any are broken by writing to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

• Global/Cyber
  
  • Cyber
    • Bioinfo-core Wiki (a worldwide body of people that manage or staff bioinformatics cores within organizations of all types)
    • The Cyber Society for Theoretical Biology
    • Functional Genomics Data Society (FGED; formerly MGED)
      

• Africa
  • South Africa
    • South African National Bioinformatics Institute
• Asia
  • Japan
    • National Institute of Genetics
  • Taiwan
    • Bioinformatics Society Taiwan
• Australia
  • Australian National Genomic Information Service (ANGIS)
  • Brisbane
    • Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Environment (ComBinE) at the University of Queensland
• Europe
  • EMBNet: European Molecular Biology Network
  • EMBL: European Molecular Biology Laboratory
  • EBI: European Bioinformatics Institute
  • Austria
    • IMP Bioinformatics Group, Vienna
  • Denmark
    • CBS: Center for Biological Sequence Analysis, Denmark
    • Technical University of Denmark, Center for Biological Sequence Analysis
    • Bioinformatics Research Center (BiRC) at the University of Aarhus
  • France
    • Infobiogen: France
  • Germany
    • MIPS: Munich Information Center for Protein Sequences
  • The Netherlands
    • Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics at the University of Nijmegen
  • Spain
    • The Protein Design Group of the National Center for Biotechnology, Madrid, Spain
  • Sweden
    • SBC: Stockholm Bioinformatics Center
  • Switzerland
    • ETH (Zürich): Computational Biochemistry Research Group web server.
    • ExPASy/SIB, Geneva: ExPASy Mirrors: Australia, Canada, Taiwan
  • United Kingdom
    • Laboratory of Molecular Biology: Cambridge, UK
    • The Sanger Centre
    • IMA Forum for Mathematics in Medicine and Biology
• North America
  • Canada
    • Canadian Bioinformatics Programs Includes links to university courses and classes in bioinformatics nationwide
    • Canadian National Bioinformatics Resource
    • Alberta
      • University of Alberta: Bioinformatics B.Sc. Specialization in Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics B.Sc. Honours in Biological Sciences, Bioinformatics B.Sc. Specialization in Computing Science
      • University of Calgary: Master of Biomedical Technology Program
    • Ontario
      • Carleton University: Honours B.Sc. in Computational Biochemistry, Honours B.Sc. in Computational Biology
      • Queen's University: B.Sc. Honours Subject of Specialization between Departments of Biochemistry and Computing and Information Science, B.Sc. in Biomedical Computing
      • Seneca College: Bioinformatics Post-Diploma Program
      • University of Toronto: Ph.D. Program in Proteomics and Bioinformatics, Undergraduate Specialist Program (Hon.B.Sc.) in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
      • University of Waterloo: B.Sc. Bioinformatics Program, Honours Computer Science/Bioinformatics option (B.Math.), Honours Bioinformatics option (B.Sc.), Honours Biology and Bioinformatics option (B.Sc.), Bioinformatics M.Sc. And Ph.D. Program
    • Quebec
      • McGill University: Undergraduate Minor in B.Sc. program in Computational Molecular Biology, M.Sc. And Ph.D. Program in Bioinformatics
      • Universitè de Montrèal: B.Sc. Specialization in Bioinformatics
  • United States
    • California
      • Stanford Genome Technology Center
      • Stanford Human Genome Center
      • The UCSC Center for Biomolecular Science & Engineering
      • Human Genome Project Working Draft
    • Maine
      • The Jackson Lab
    • Maryland
      • NCBI National Center for Biotechnology Information
      • NCGR National Center for Genome Resources
      • TIGR
    • Massachusetts
      • BioMolecular Engineering Research Center at Boston University
      • Molecular Engineering Research Laboratory at Boston University
      • Broad Institute
    • New York
      • CUBIC, at Columbia University
      • IBM Watson Lab
    • North Carolina
      • Duke University Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
    • Pennsylvania
      • W.M. Keck Center, at the University of Pittsburg
    • Texas
      • The Keck Center, at Rice University
      • Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, at the University of Texas at Austin
    • Washington
      • Systems Biology, at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  • Mexico
    • Cuernavaca
      • Program in Computational Biology. CIFN-UNAM, Cuernavaca, Mexico
• South America
  • Brazil
    • Brazilian Bio Net / Brazilian Bioinformatics Resource Center: BBNet/BBRC

While ISCB does provide links to conferences, events, and other news items that may be of use to ISCB members and bioinformaticians at large, ISCB has no control over non-ISCB resources, and is not responsible for the content provided by outside sources. Such listings are not meant as an endorsement by ISCB.

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ISCB Affiliates

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 submit your application using the online ISCB Affiliated Group Application form. Your exploratory questions to ISCB about the appropriateness of a potential future affiliation are also welcome by Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).

ISCB Communities of Special Interest (COSIs)

ISCB Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) are member communities of shared interest that have self-organized and have multiple activities or interactions throughout the year, rather than solely meeting during the SIG program of the ISMB conference. An important goal of any COSI is to foster a topically-focused collaborative community wherein scientists communicate with one another on research problems and/or opportunities in specific areas of computational biology. Such communication is often in the form of meetings, but can also be through other social media tools that allow for vibrant participation in a virtual environment. If you are interested in starting an ISCB COSI please send your exploratory questions to Diane E. Kovats, ISCB Executive Director (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).


While ISCB does provide links to conferences, events, and other news items that may be of use to ISCB members and bioinformaticians at large, ISCB has no control over non-ISCB resources, and is not responsible for the content provided by outside sources. Such listings are not meant as an endorsement by ISCB.