Become an ISCB Affiliate

In 2002 ISCB introduced the Affiliated Regional Groups (ARG) Program, to establish a formal affiliation between ISCB as an international organization and the rapidly expanding geographically based bioinformatics and computational biology membership groups and societies around the world. The program started with a bang, with groups from Boston to Vancouver in North America, Italy to Germany in Europe, and Japan to India in Asia quickly signing on. Since then the program has grown to include 23 membership societies in 18 countries on five continents. The Polish Bioinformatics Society was gladly welcomed as our newest ARG just last month.

With the program maturing, the ISCB Affiliates Committee began a transformation last year as well, which its members are still working through today. Their first order of business was to update the guidelines for affiliation to include opportunities for established institutes, centers and networks to connect more formally with ISCB. This proposed expansion of the original affiliates program was presented to the Board of Directors in 2009, and easily approved. We are pleased to report that EMBnet was the first to sign on under the Affiliated Regional Networks category, and INB-Spain, the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute, is the most recent Affiliated Regional Institute addition.

The ISCB Board continues to explore ideas toward fulfilling a vision of a more unified global community of computational biologists, and will report to our members and colleagues as new programs or benefits are established. Meanwhile, if you are a member of a regional group, institute, center or networks and are interested in affiliating with ISCB, please refer to www.iscb.org/iscb-affiliates and download the guidelines for application details.

  • The names and contact details of the 15 individuals must be designated in advance by the IML and are non-transferable to other contacts in the course of the one-year institutional membership
  • The online passes expire on the institutional membership expiration date.
  • One representative, as designated by the IML, is invited to the ISCB affiliates and institutional
    members meeting held during the ISMB conference with board members of the ISCB.

Total Value of above Benefits: $3,350.00.

Annual Fee
The annual fee for an Institutional Membership is $1,675 USD. This is 50% off the total value of the benefits detailed above when purchased separately. The Institutional Membership represents an exceptional opportunity for any organization dedicated to providing its personnel with many of the ISCB benefits offered throughout the year, particularly in the areas of education, recruitment and networking.

Restrictions
An ISCB Institutional Membership is not an endorsement of the institution in any way, and the Institutional Membership organization explicitly agrees not to advertise, promote or make this membership known in such a way as to imply any endorsement from ISCB. If ISCB, at its discretion, perceives the membership is presented by the organization as an endorsement, ISCB reserves the right to invalidate the institutional
membership immediately, without obligation to refund fee(s) paid to-date.

Enrollment
The Institutional Membership application is accessible from www.iscb.org/iscb-membership, and hyperlinks will be included from ISCB conference registration sites in the future. If this is the type of membership opportunity you have been waiting for, please consider joining and become one of the first ISCB Institutional Members.