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volume 5, issue 2

President’s Letter

Register for ISMB 2002

Host ISMB 2004 or 2005

David Baker: 2002 Overton Prize Recipient

Overton Endowment

ISMB 2002 Committees

ISMB 2002 Sponsor and Exhibitor Opportunities

Best Paper Award by SGI

ISMB 2002 SIGs

ISMB Goes Down Under in 2003

Hot Jobs! ISMB 2002 Job Fair

ISCB Board Nominations

Bioinformatics Pioneers: ISMB 2002 Keynote Speakers

Anna Tramontano: Bioinformatics in Europe

Software Recommendations

ISCB’s Affiliated Regional Groups

ISCB Staff Introduction

Fellowship Recipients

Events and Opportunities

Newsletter Homepage

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Affiliated Regional Groups

Just as ISCB’s global membership has increased, new relationships with affiliated regional groups have formed and old partnerships have strengthened. ISCB has started an Affiliated Regional Group Program to promote bioinformatics as a scientific discipline, and increase public and governmental recognition of its importance.
ISCB is pleased to announce the following members of the Affiliated Regional Group Program (www.iscb.org/affiliates.shtml):

• Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network www.apbionet.org
• Boston Area Molecular Biology Computer Types xanadu.mgh.harvard.edu/bambct/bambct-intro.html
• Bay Area Bioinformatics www.bayareabioinformatics.org
• Bioinformatics-India www.bioinformatics-india.com
• Biological Research Information Center of Korea bric.postech.ac.kr/bricenglish/index.html
• INBIOS-Bioinformatics Society of India www.inbios.org
• Italian Cooperation Group in Bioinformatics cbm.bio.uniroma2.it/biocomp
• Japanese Society for Bioinformatics www.jsbi.org
• Rocky Mountain Regional Center for Computational Biology www.cudenver.edu/ccb
• Israeli Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (forming)

ISCB Affiliated Regional Group Program participants may benefit from the following:

• Cross-visibility within one another’s web pages, conferences, journals, and bulletins
• Affiliated Regional Groups may request access to facilities at ISMB—ISCB’s official conference—for regional meetings
• Appointment of an ISCB Board member as affiliate point of contact (POC) to consider regional matters relevant to ISCB
• Solicitation for nominations to ISCB’s Board from Affiliated Regional Groups through the Society’s regional POCs
• Eligibility for support of regional activities: Travel funds for a recognized scientist in the field to lecture at a regional meeting or workshop; travel fellowships for scientists from the region to travel to ISMB

The ISCB—through its Affiliated Regional Group Program—is hopeful this effort will strengthen the bioinformatics community by providing a locality for mutual support to advance common interests of bioinformaticians at large. Members of regional bioinformatics and computational biology groups who consider affiliation with ISCB to be potentially beneficial for their organizations, are encouraged to contact admin@iscb.org for further information.