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            C O N T E N T S } Volume 8, Issue 3
 
 President's 
              Letter Rost To BecomeNext ISCB President
 Rocky'05 BioinformaticsConference Colorado
 in December
 Update onPLoS Computational Biology
 
 Putting Students
 in the Spotlight
 Call for 2006Awards Nominations
 
 ISMB 2006 in Brazil
 New ISCB Membership 
              SiteNow Open
 ISMB 2006Call for Tutorials
 
 RECOMB 2006 Registration Opening This Week
 ISMB 2005 SIGs Recap
 Israeli Bioinformatics Symposium 
              2005
 A Prelude to ECCB’06
 
 Advertising & Corporate Membership 
              Opportunities
 
 Post Your News, Events
 and Degree Programs
 on ISCB Website
 
 Upcoming Events
 & Conferences
 
 News from the Field
 Acknowledgements 
              and Contributors 
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 | News from the Field
 The Federation of American 
              Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB), Executive Director Search
 Nov 3, 2005
 FASEB (a coalition of 23 independent Member Societies located in 
              Bethesda, MD, USA, and representing the interests of biomedical 
              and life scientists) seeks an Executive Director to report directly 
              to the President/Board and serve as the chief operating officer 
              of the corporation, responsible for implementing business, financial, 
              publication, advisory, public relations, educational, and other 
              program and policies approved by the Board. He/she provides leadership 
              and direction to approximately 90 professional, technical and clerical 
              support staff and manages an annual operating budget of $15.5 million.
 Qualified applicants should have executive/administrative 
              experience with a record of achievement and leadership in academic, 
              association or other non-profit organizations. Candidates will have 
              proven administrative and leadership capabilities, excellent interpersonal 
              and communication skills, knowledge and understanding of the legislative 
              process, public policy, knowledge of current trends/issues facing 
              the biological and life sciences, and a strong sense of diplomacy. 
              An advanced degree (Ph.D., M.D., M.B.A.,) is highly desirable. FASEB is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To view 
              a complete job description visit our web site at: http://www.faseb.org/hr/employ.html. 
 Search Tool for Life Sciences Researchers
 Oct 21, 2005
 A community based search tool for life scientists was recently launched 
            and can be found at www.siphs.com. Siphs aims to simplify the process 
            of searching for relevant scientific content by leveraging the combined 
            knowledge of researchers world wide. Traditional information search 
            tools rely upon cataloguing, indexing, and ranking a wide variety 
            of scholarly sources found on the web. Unlike traditional search engines, 
            Siphs search queries are tagged with “areas of expertise” 
            and then distributed to scientists who are members of the Siphs community 
            for review. The tool was designed by taking a clue from the offline 
            world in that the most relevant search results can be found by asking 
            the people with the right set of experiences.
 
 
 
 Bioalma and EMBL Sign Agreement to License 
              AlmaKnowledgeServer (AKS) as Part of Joint Research ProjectSep 08, 2005
 bioalma has announced that EMBL has licensed almaKnowledgeServer 
              (AKS) for an initial period of three years. Under this agreement, 
              researchers based at EMBL headquarters in Heidelberg as well as 
              those based at outstations will have access to the system as part 
              of their daily research activities. bioalma and EMBL are also pleased 
              to announce a joint development project to tailor almaKnowledgeServer 
              (AKS) features to the needs of the EMBL organization. Read the complete 
              press release: www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=089299.
 
 ISMB2005 Proceedings Now AvailableSep 06, 2005
 ISMB2005 Proceedings are now available for purchase on-line at www.iscb.org/proceedings.shtml. 
              If you have any questions please contact Suzi Smith, ISCB Administrative 
              Support, at admin@iscb.org.
 
 Bioinformatics Optional Open AccessAug 23, 2005
 Bioinformatics open access offers you the chance to have your work 
              made available free online immediately upon publication. This means 
              that anyone with Internet access can read and cite your published 
              paper regardless of whether they have a subscription to the journal. 
              The standard charge for open access publication is £1,500 
              / US$2,800 but if your institution has a current online subscription 
              to the journal, this will be reduced to £800 / US$1,500. Lower 
              charges apply when you publish in the Application Notes section 
              of the journal, and for authors based in low-income countries. THE 
              CHOICE IS YOURS Because open access is optional, you can still publish 
              in Bioinformatics free of charge. If you choose not to pay for open 
              access your work will be made available free online after one year. 
              All authors are also entitled to make a post-print of their paper 
              publicly available in repositories such as PubMed Central twelve 
              months after online publication, while those choosing to publish 
              their paper under the open access model can make their post-print 
              freely available immediately.
 
 
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