ISCB Conference Mission & Past Conferences
At the heart of ISCB’s mission is advocating for and advancing scholarship, research, training, outreach, and inclusive community building in computational biology. Our vision is to lead the field of computational biology to maximize its global impact on science and society. A core strategy to achieve these goals is serving our diverse, global membership through high-quality conferences and events.
ISCB has a long-standing tradition of intellectual leadership through scientific gatherings. Each conference bearing the ISCB name or logo is designed to foster the rapid dissemination of the latest scientific trends, challenges, and breakthroughs in computational biology. These events highlight emerging topics, provide specialized tracks, workshops, and sessions, and often expand to stand-alone activities to deepen engagement with the field’s critical issues.
Through these efforts, ISCB continues to facilitate education, career development, networking, and the exchange of ideas—advancing the computational biology community and benefiting society at large.
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ANNUAL PRIMARY CONFERENCE
REGIONAL CONFERENCES WITH AN INTERNATIONAL APPEAL
- CSHALS - Annual Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- GLBIO - Annual Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference
- ISCB-Africa - Bi-annual ISCB Africa Conference
- ISCB-Asia - ISCB Asia Conference
- LATAM - Bi-annual ISCB Latin America Conference
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges
PRIMARY SISTER CONFERENCES
- ECCB - Bi-Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (held jointly with ISMB in odd numbered years)
- PSB - Annual Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
- RECOMB - Annual Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
OTHER CONFERENCES
- AdvCompBio - Advances in Computational Biology
- ASHG/IGES/ISCB Joint Symposium
- BioGeoEvolution
- YBS - Youth Bioinformatics Symposium
Annual Primary Conference
ISMB - Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference
- ISMB/ECCB 2025, July 20-25, Liverpool, England
- ISMB 2024, July 12-16, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- ISMB/ECCB 2023, July 23-27, Lyon, France
- ISMB 2022, July 10-14, 2022, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2021, July 25-30, 2021, Virtual Event
- ISMB 2020, July 13-16, 2020, Virtual Event
- ISMB/ECCB 2019, July 21-25, 2019, Basel, Switzerland
- ISMB 2018, July 06-10, 2017, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2017, July 21-25, 2017, Prague, Czech Republic
- ISMB 2016, July 08-12, 2016, Orlando, Florida, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2015, July 10-14, 2015, Dublin, Leinster, Ireland
- ISMB 2014, July 11-15, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2013, July 21-23, 2011, Berlin, Germany
- ISMB 2012, July 15-17, 2012, Long Beach, California, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2011, July 17-19, 2011, Vienna, Austria
- ISMB 2010, July 11-13, 2010, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2009, June 27 - July 2, 2009, Stockholm, Sweden
- ISMB 2008, July 19-23, 2008, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- ISMB/ECCB 2007, July 21-25, 2007, Vienna, Austria
- ISMB 2006, August 6 - 11, 2006, Fortaleza, Ceará, Brazil
- ISMB 2005 June 25-29, 2005, Detroit, Michigan, USA
- ISMB/ECCB 2004 (a joint meeting in conjunction with GPCVIII) August 1 - 5, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- ISMB 2003 June 29 - July 3, 2003; Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- ISMB 2002 August 3-7, 2002, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- ISMB 2001 July 21-25, 2001, Copenhagen, Denmark
- ISMB 2000 August 20-23, 2000, La Jolla, California, USA
- ISMB 1999 August 6-10, 1999, Heidelberg, Germany
- ISMB 1998 June 28-July 1, 1998, Montrèal, Quèbec, Canada
- ISMB 1997 June 21-25, 1997, Halkidiki, Greece
- ISMB 1996 June 12-15, 1996, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- ISMB 1995 July 16-19, 1995, Cambridge, England, UK
- ISMB 1994 August 14-17, 1994, Palo Alto, California, USA
- ISMB 1993 July 6-9, 1993, Bethesda, Maryland, USA
- ISMB 1993 Abstract
- ISMB 1993 Proceedings
Regional Conferences with an International Appeal
CSHALS - Conference on Semantics in Healthcare & Life Sciences
- C-SHALS 2014, February 26-28, 2014, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2013, February 27 - March 01, 2013, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2012, February 22-24, 2012, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2011, February 23-25, 2011, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2010, February 24-26, 2010, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2009, February 2-27, 2009, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- C-SHALS 2008, March 5 -7, 2008, Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts, USA
GLBIO - Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2025, May 12-15, 2025, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2024, May 13-16, 2024, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2023, May 15-18, 2023, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2021, May 10-13, 2021, Virtual Event
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2019, May 19-22, 2019, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2017, May 15-17, 2017, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- GLBIO/CCBC Great Lakes Bioinformatics and the Canadian Computational Biology Conference 2016, May 16-19, 2016, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2015, May 18-20, 2015, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2014, May 16-18, 2014, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2013, May 14-16, 2013, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2012, May 15-17, 2012, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
- Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2011, May 2-4, 2011, Athens, Ohio, USA
ISCB-Africa - ISCB Africa Conference
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2025, April 14-17, 2025, Cape Town, South Africa
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2021, June 7-10, 2021, Virtual Event
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2019, November 11-15, 2019, Kumasi, Ghana
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2017, October 10-13, 2017, Entebbe, Uganda
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2015, March 9-11, 2015, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2013, March 13-15, 2013, Casablanca, Morocco
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2011, March 9-11, 2011, Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
- ISCB Africa ASBCB 2009, November 30 - December 3, 2009, Bamako, Mali
ISCB Asia - ISCB Asia Conference
- Asia & Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Conference 2024, October22-25, 2024, Okinawa, Japan
- GIW/ISCB-Asia International Conference on Genome Informatics 2023, November 18-21, 2023, Singapore
- GIW/ISCB-Asia International Conference on Genome Informatics 2022, December 12-14, 2022, Tainan, Taiwan
- GIW/ISCB-Asia International Conference on Genome Informatics, December 15-17, 2014, Tokyo, Japan
- ISCB Asia Translational Bioinformatics Conference 2013, October 2-4, 2013
Seoul, Korea - ISCB-Asia and Shenzhen Conference on Computational Genomics, December 17-19, 2012, Shenzhen, China
- InCoB/ISCB-Asia Joint Conference 2011, November 30 - December 2, 2011, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
LATAM - ISCB Latin America Conference
- ISCB-Latin America SoIBio CCBCOL 2024, November 12-15, 2024, Medellin, Colombia
- ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX 2022, November 3-7, 2022, Querétaro, Mexico
- ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX 2020, October 28-29, 2020, Virtual Event
- ISCB-Latin America SoIBio EMBnet 2018, November 5-09, 2018, Viña del Mar, Valparaíso, Chile
- ISCB-Latin America Conference, November 21-23, 2016, Buenos Aires, Argentina
- ISCB-Latin America x-Meeting on Bioinformatics with BSB & SoiBio, October 28-30, 2014, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
- ISCB Latin America 2012, March 17-21, 2012, Santiago, Chile
- ISCB Latin America 2010, March 13-16, 2010, Montevideo, Uruguay
The Next NGS Challenge Conference
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference 2018, April 9-11, 2018 Barcelona, Spain
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference 2017, April 3-05, 2017 Barcelona, Spain
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference 2016, April 4-06, 2016 Barcelona, Spain
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference 2014, June 2-04, 2014 Barcelona, Spain
- The Next NGS Challenge Conference 2013, May 14-16, 2013 Valencia, Spain
Rocky - Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference
- Rocky 2023, Cancelled
- Rocky 2022, December 8-10, 2022, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2021, December 2-04, 2021, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2019, December 5-07, 2019, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2018, December 6-08, 2018, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2017, December 7-09, 2017, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2016, December 8-10, 2016, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2015, December 10-12, 2015, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2014, December 11-13, 2014, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2013, December 12-14, 2013, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2012, December 6-8, 2012, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky 2011, December 8-10, 2011, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '10, December 9-11, 2010, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '09, December 10-12, 2009, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '08, December 4-7, 2008, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '07, November 30 - December 2, 2007, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '06, December 1-3, 2006, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '05, December 9-11, 2005, Snowmass, Colorado, USA
- Rocky '04, December 10-12, 2004, Aspen, Colorado, USA
- Rocky1, December 5-7, 2003, Aspen, Colorado, USA
RSGDREAM - RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2024, October 1-3, 2024, Madison, Wisconsin, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2023, November 28-30, 2023, Los Angeles, California, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2022, November 7-11, 2022, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2020, November 16-19, 2020, Virtual Event
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2019, November 4-6, 2019, New York, New York, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2018, December 8-10, 2018, New York, New York, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2017, November 19-21, 2017, New York, New York, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges & Cytoscape Workshop 2016, November 6-9, 2016, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2015, November 15-18, 2015, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges and Cytoscape Workshops 2014, November 9-14, 2014, San Diego, California, USA
- RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges 2013, November 8-12, 2013, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Primary Sister Conferences
ECCB - European Conference on Computational Biology
(held jointly with ISMB in odd numbered years)
- ECCB 2024, September 16-20, 2024, Turku, Finland
- ECCB 2022, September 12-21, 2022, Barcelona, Spain
- ECCB 2020, August 31 - September 8, 2020, Virtual Event
- ECCB 2018, September 8-12, 2018, Athens, Greece
- ECCB 2016, September 3-7, 2016, The Hague. Netherlands
- ECCB 2014, September 7-10, 2014 Strasbourg, France
- ECCB 2012, September 9-12, 2012, Basel, Switzerland
- ECCB 2010, September 26-29, 2010, Ghent, Belgium
- ECCB 2008, September 21-24, 2008, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy
- ECCB 2006, January 21-24, 2007, Eilat, Israel
- ECCB 2005, September 28 - October 1, 2005, Madrid, Spain
- ECCB 2003, September 27-30, 2003, Pari, France
- ECCB 2002, October 6-9, 2002 Saarbrücken, Germany
PSB - Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing
- PSB 2025, January 4-8, 2025, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2024, January 4-8, 2024, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2023, January 3-7, 2023, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2022, January 3-7, 2022, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2021, January 5-7, 2021, Virtual Event
- PSB 2020, January 3-7, 2020, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2019, January 3-7, 2019, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2018, January 3-7, 2018, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2017, January 3-7, 2017, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2016, January 4-8, 2016, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2015, January 4-8, 2015, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2014, January 3-7, 2014, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2013, January 3-7, 2013, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2012, January 3-7, 2012, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2011, January 4-8, 2011, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2010, January 4-8, 2010, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2009, January 5-9, 2009, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2008, January 4-8, 2008, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2007, January 3-7, 2007, Maui, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2006, January 3-7, 2006, Maui, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2005, January 4-8, 2005, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2004, January 6-10, 2004, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2003, January 3-7, 2003, Lihue, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2002, January 3-7, 2002, Mauna Lani, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2001, January 3-7, 2001, Mauna Lani, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 2000, January 4-9, 2000, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 1999, January 4-9, 1999, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 1998, January 4-9, 1998, Maui, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 1997, January 6-9, 1997, Maui, Hawaii, USA
- PSB 1996, January 3-6, 1996, Big Island, Hawaii, USA
RECOMB - Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology
- RECOMB 2025, April 26-29, 2025, Seoul, South Korea
- RECOMB 2024, April 29 - May 2, 2024, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- RECOMB 2023, April 16-19, 2023 ,Istanbul, Turkey
- RECOMB 2022, May 22-25, 2022, La Jolla, California, USA
- RECOMB 2021, August 29 - September 01, 2021, Virtual Event
- RECOMB 2020, June 22-25, 2020, Virtual Event
- RECOMB 2019, May 5-8, 2019, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- RECOMB 2018, April 21-24, 2018, Paris, France
- RECOMB 2017, May 3-7, 2017, Hong Kong, China
- RECOMB 2016, April 17-21, 2016, Los Angeles, California, USA
- RECOMB 2015, April 12-15, 2014, Warsaw, Poland
- RECOMB 2014, April 2-5, 2014, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- RECOMB 2013, April 7-10, 2013, Beijing, China
- RECOMB 2012, April 21-24, 2012, Barcelona, Spain
- RECOMB 2011, March 2-31, 2011, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- RECOMB 2010, August 12-15, 2010, Lisbon, Portugal
- RECOMB 2009, May 18-21, 2009, Tucson, Arizona, USA
- RECOMB 2008, March 30 - April 2, 2008, Sinagpore
- RECOMB 2007, April 21-25, 2007, San Francisco Bay Area, California, USA
- RECOMB 2006, April 2-5, 2006, Venice, Italy
- RECOMB 2005, May 14-18, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
- RECOMB 2004, March 27-31, San Diego, California, USA
- RECOMB 2003, April 10-13, Berlin, Germany
- RECOMB 2002, April 18-21 2002, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
- RECOMB 2001, April 22-25, 2001, Montréal, Québec, Canada
- RECOMB 2000, April 8-11, 2000, Tokyo, Japan
- RECOMB 1999, April 11-14, 1999, Lyon, France
- RECOMB 1998, March 22-25, 1998, New York, New York, USA
Other Conferences
Advances in Computational Biology
- Advances in Computational Biology Conference (AdvCompBio) 2019, November 28-29, 2019, Barcelona, Spain
ASHG/IGES/ISCB Joint Symposium
- ASHG/IGES/ISCB Joint Symposium: Working with Big Data in the Cloud--Research and Privacy, October 16, 2018, San Diego, California, USA
BioGeoEvolution
- BioGeoEvolution 2025, May 26 - June 1, 2025, Cuatro Ciénegas, Mexico
YBS - Youth Bioinformatics Symposium
- YBS 2024, July 12, 2024, Montréal, Quebec, Canada
- YBS 2023, December 9, 2023, Virtual Event
- YBS 2022, November 19, 2022, Virtual Event
- YBS 2021, May 23, 2021, Virtual Event
- YBS 2020, May 11, 2020, Virtual Event
- YBS 2019, January 12, 2019, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
- YBS 2016, June 5, 2016, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
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