EDI Resources
EDI Strategic Plan
- 2020-2021 EDI Strategic Plan
Components:- Increasing social accountability for change in the ISCB society
- Obtaining data and developing measures to assess progress
- Voluntary training: The “ISCB Awareness toolkit”
- Recruitment initiative
- Mentoring
Read ISCB’s EDI Strategic Plan
Read ISCB's awareness toolkit associated with the Strategic Plan
EDI Statements and Policies
- A Safe Space (ISCB Code of Conduct)
- ISCB's Statement on Countering Social Injustice
- ISCB Writes Nature Communications Urging the Correction/Retraction of Recent Article on Mentoring
EDI Annual Reports
- ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2020-2021 Annual Report
- ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2021-2022 Annual Report
- ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2022-2023 Annual Report
- ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusions 2023-2024 Annual Report
Research on Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
Additional EDI Resources
- National Institute of Health (USA) Diversity Data Finder: https://diversity.nih.gov/science-diversity/diversity-data-finder
- National Institute of Health (USA) Diversity Resources: https://diversity.nih.gov
- Guidelines on recruiting and hiring diverse faculty (from UW Madison) https://wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/662/2018/11/SearchBook_Wisc.pdf
- Reviewing applicants, research on bias and assumptions (from UW Madison): https://wiseli.wisc.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/662/2018/10/BiasBrochure_3rdEd.pdf
- Materials from ISMB 2025 Tutorial on assessing and enhancing digital accessibility of biological data and visualizations: https://inscidar.github.io/
biological-accessibility- tutorial/
- Ten Simple Rules for Making Biomedical Data Resources Accessible: https://osf.io/gqy8k_v1 (preprint; manuscript has been submitted to PLoS Computational Biology)
- Review of the state of accessibility of biological data resources: https://www.nature.com/
articles/s41598-025-08731-7
- Interactive Science Data Accessibility Report: https://inscidar.org/
- AltGosling, a tool to generate alt text for genomics visualizations: https://doi.org/10.1093/
bioinformatics/btae670
EDI Papers/Literature
- A look into ISCB:
Casey Greene's Paper: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.927251v2 - Other Diversity Research articles: https://diversity.nih.gov/find-read-learn/diversity-research-articles