SCS5 Highlights

Commemorating its 5th anniversary, the ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS5), as of this writing (just days before the event), is anticipated as a great success. We are proud to have significantly impacted the student computational biology community by providing young researchers an international platform to present their findings. A total of eight oral presentations by students were selected on the basis of the outstanding quality of their submitted abstracts.


More than 120 delegates registered for the June 27th SCS5 in Stockholm. The organizing committee went to great lengths to secure funds and was able to provide nine travel fellowships for students, including two of 1500 € each exclusively for students from developing nations.

An impressive array of invited speakers included keynote addresses by this year’s ISCB Overton Prize awardee Trey Ideker, as well as Michal Linial and Peer Bork. We introduced a new section in SCS5 where Wolfgang Huber prepared a tutorial on a specific application of R/Bioconductor package. The event also involved a panel discussion on “Bioinformatics in the era of personal genomics,” a poster session and reception.