Co-hosted by ISCB and BGI, ISCB-ASIA/SCCG 2012 will be held in Shenzhen, China from December 17-19 at the Kingkey Palace Hotel.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Gunnar von Heijne, Philip Greene, Piero Carninci, Takashi Ito, Eric Xing and Zhiping Weng. They will be joined by several prominent invited speakers in special sessions including: computational tools for NGS, cancer informatics, and cloud and work flows for reproducible biology. ISCB is known for hosting a variety of international meetings including ISMB, while BGI of Shenzhen is one of the world's largest sequencing centers. Shenzhen is a booming city with easy access from adjacent Hong Kong and a pleasant climate during December.

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KEY DATES

12-Nov-2012	Early registration closes
10-Dec-2012	Online registration closes
17-19-Dec-2012	Conference Dates

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ISMB Conference Series

ISMB 2012 - Celebrating 20 Years!
ISMB/ECCB 2011
About ISMB
ISMB Mission
ISMB History
Future ISMB
ISCB/ECCB Collaboration

ISMB/ECCB 2011 - Vienna, Austria, July 17-19, 2011

The Nineteenth Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2011) will be held jointly with the Tenth Annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Vienna, Austria, July 17 - July 19, 2011, where we expect >1500 attendees.

Since ISMB 2008 in Toronto we have encouraged an increased participation of scientists involved in experimental biology. This guiding goal positively impacted the organization of the ISMB and ECCB meetings in many ways, including through the introduction of Special Session Tracks for related disciplines, a Highlight Tracks for work published in journals frequented by experimental biologists, and a Late Breaking Research Track for the presentation of submitted abstracts of research in progress. And the 2010 addition of a public lecture keynote presentation opened the conference to the local community for the very first time.

The Vienna conference program will include over 40 contributed papers selected by an international program committee during a rigorous review process rivaling the editorial procedure for top-rate scientific journals with an acceptance rate of ~19%. Contributed papers are collected in a proceedings published as part of an online-only issue of the Oxford University Press journal Bioinformatics and are distributed in USB-stick form to all attendees at the conference. Several parallel tracks are not tied to publication in the conference proceedings, and therefore offer experimentalists and industry researchers, as well as mainstream ISMB attendees, additional opportunities to present their work at the conference. A further point in the program is an extensive and lively poster session; at recent ISMB conferences 600-1,000 posters have been presented.

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About ISMB

The ISMB conferences began in 1993 and were the driving force behind the founding of the International Society for Computational Biology in 1997, which has been organizing this conference ever since. ISCB is the only society representing computational biology on a worldwide scale and its flagship conference ISMB has become the largest conference on computational biology worldwide. ISCB continues to see ISMB as its major flagship annual event.

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ISMB Mission

The ISMB conference series aims at attracting the top research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology. Typical, but not exclusive, the topics of interest are: Sequence analysis, Evolution and phylogeny, Comparative genomics, Protein structure, Molecular and supramolecular dynamics, Molecular evolution, Gene regulation and transcriptomics, Proteomics, Systems biology, Ontologies, data bases and data integration, Text mining and information extraction, and Human health. The conference also aims to attract participants from related disciplines in order to understand the need that exists for computational approaches in related fields, and to gain from approaches taken in other disciplines that might be appropriate for computational biology.

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ISMB History

The Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, known today as simply ISMB, was started in the early 1990's to bring together researchers with an interest in applying a computational approach to biological investigation. At that time it was challenging to find people who did this work in either computer science or molecular biology, as few scientists in either discipline had a clear idea of what bioinformatics was or how to find other people doing it.

Therefore, Lawrence Hunter, then a programmer at the US National Library of Medicine, put to use a popular database he had generated of researchers interested in artificial intelligence and molecular biology from research papers and conference mailing lists by inviting those researchers to a 1992 joint NLM meeting with the National Science Foundation on the future of what was then termed artificial intelligence in molecular biology. The following year, the meeting evolved into the first Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB), held in Washington DC. That first ISMB attracted approximately 200 scientists; today nearly 2000 show up.

Past keynote addresses. One of the highlights of each ISMB and ECCB conference is a collection of keynotes delivered by researchers of the highest international esteem who are asked to inform the community of historical perspectives or landmark advances in computational and experimental research, and inject new directions into the field of computational molecular biology. Past keynote addresses included:

Stephen Altschul (NCBI), Tom Blundell (Cambridge), Sydney Brenner (Salk), Søren Brunak (DTU Denmark), Stephen Burley (SGX), Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie), Russell Doolittle (UCSD), Manfred Eigen (Goettingen), Michael Eisen (Berkely), David Eisenberg (UCLA), Eric Green (NIH), Barry Honig (Columbia), Leroy Hood (Seattle), Robert Huber (Munich), Bernardo Huberman (Hewlett Packard Labs), Eric Lander (MIT), Mike Levine (Berkeley), David Lipman (NCBI), John Mattick (Queensland), Gene Myers (HMM), Erin O'Shea (HHMI), Svante Paabo (Leipzig), Richard Roberts (Ipswich), Gerald Rubin (HHMI), David Sankoff (Otttawa), Harold Scheraga (Cornell), Temple Smith (Boston Univ), Terry Speed (Berkely), John Sulston (Hinxton), Janet Thornton (EBI), Craig Venter (Celera), Gunnar von Heijne (Stockholm), Michael Waterman (USC), Kurt Wuethrich (ETH).

Past ISMB Conferences - click here.

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Future ISMB

Future ISMB conference locations are being confirmed as early as possible, so please stay tuned and revisit often.

At the moment the following is the destination plan, subject to change:

ISMB/ECCB 2009 - June 27-July 2 - Stockholm, Sweden

ISMB 2010 - July 10-14 - Boston, USA

ISMB/ECCB 2011 - Europe

ISMB 2012 - North America

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ISCB/ECCB Collaboration

The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) has been organized annually since 2002 by a panel of European Computational Biologists and is the only pan-European conference series in this field. In 2004 ISMB and the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) have joined forces in a common meeting that was by many standards perceived as the most successful such meeting in computational biology to-date. ECCB and ISCB have agreed to share their main meetings whenever ISMB meets in Europe. The next common meeting will be in 2009 and currently calls for an ISMB/ECCB every other year in Europe.

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ISCB Latin America

March 13th-16th
Montevideo, Uruguay

PROGRAM

Day 1

8:30 AM: Welcome remarks
9:00 AM: Opening Keynote: Burkhard Rost (Columbia University, USA)

Session: New Sequencing Technologies: Applications and Impact
10:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Christian Probst, Instituto Carlos Chagas - Fiocruz, Curitiba, Brazil

10:00 AM - 10:45 AM: International Guest Keynote: Terence Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia; and University of California Berkeley, USA)
10:45 AM - 11:30 AM: Regional Guest Keynote: Christian Probst (Instituto Carlos Chagas - Fiocruz, Brazil)
11:30 AM - 11:45 AM: coffee break
11:45 AM - 1:00 PM: 5 x 15min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

1:00 PM - 2:30 PM: Lunch Break

Session: Protein Structure and Function
2:30 PM - 5:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Francisco Melo Ledermann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile

2:30 PM - 3:15 PM: International Guest Keynote: Marc Marti-Renom (Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Spain)
3:15 PM - 4:00 PM: Regional Guest Keynote: Francisco Melo Ledermann (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
4:00 PM - 4:15 PM: coffee break
4:15 PM - 5:30 PM: 5 x 15 min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

6:30 PM: Conference Welcome Reception

Day 2

Session: Sequence Analysis, Comparative Genomics and Evolution
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Hector Musto, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM: International Guest Keynote: Eduardo Rocha (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6; and Institut Pasteur, France)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Regional Guest Keynote: Hector Musto (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
10:30 AM - 10:45 AM: coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM: 5 x 15min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

Session: Microbial Genomics and Metagenomics
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Elena Fabiano, Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Montevideo, Uruguay

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM: International Guest Keynote: Phil Hugenholtz (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Joint Genome Institute, USA)
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM: Regional Guest Keynote: Emanuel Maltempi de Souza (Universidad Federal de Paraná, Brazil)
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: coffee break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM: 5 x 15 min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Poster session even number

Day 3 : Bioinformatics of Health and Disease in Latin America

Session I: Computational Biomedicine
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Sandro Jose de Souza, Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Sao Paulo, Brazil

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM: International Guest Keynote: Winston Hide (South African National Bioinformatics Institute, South Africa)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Regional Guest Keynote: Sandro Jose de Souza (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil)
10:30 AM - 10:45 PM coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM: 5 x 15 min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

12:00 PM - 1:30 PM: Lunch Break

Session II: Infectious Diseases and Drug Target Discovery
1:30 PM - 4:30 PM
Discussion Leader: Fernan Aguero, Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1:30 PM - 2:15 PM: International Guest Keynote: David S. Roos (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
2:15 PM - 3:00 PM: Regional Guest Keynote: Fernan Aguero (Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Argentina)
3:00 PM - 3:15 PM: coffee break
3:15 PM - 4:30 PM: 5 x 15 min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

4:30 PM - 7:00 PM: Poster session odd number

8:30 PM: Conference Banquet

Day 4

Session: Functional Genomics and Systems Biology
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Discussion Leader: Wim Degrave, Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

9:00 AM - 9:45 AM: International Guest Keynote: Michal Linial (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
9:45 AM - 10:30 AM: Regional Guest Keynote: Wim Degrave (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Brazil)
10:30 AM - 10:45 PM: coffee break
10:45 AM - 12:00 PM: 5 x 15 min submitted work talks (including 3 min for questions)

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM: Closing Keynote: Daniel Hartl (Harvard University, USA)

1:00 PM: Closing Remarks

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ISCB Latin America

March 13th-16th
Montevideo, Uruguay

ISCB is eager to support the growth of regional and specialist meetings. One such meeting is the first ISCB Latin America Conference in Montevideo, Uruguay, taking place from the 13th to the 16th of March, 2010.

NEW: Key Dates

7 November 2009 Call for Posters and Talks Opens / Registration Opens
13 December 2009 Submission of Posters and Talks Closes / Travel Fellowship Application Deadline
13 January 2010 Notification of Acceptance of Poster, Talks and Fellowships
15 January 2010 Call for Late Posters Opens
1 February 2010 Submission of Late Posters Closes
8 February 2010 Notification of Acceptance of Late Poster
13 February 2010 Early Registration Finishes
13-16 March 2010 ISCB Latin America

NEW: Preliminary Program!

Confirmed Regional Speakers!

Christian Probst (Instituto Carlos Chagas-Fiocruz, Brazil)
Francisco Melo Ledermann (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile)
Hector Musto (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Emanuel Maltempi de Souza (Universidad Federal de Paraná, Brazil)
Sandro Jose de Souza (Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, Brazil)
Fernan Aguero (Universidad Nacional de General San Martín, Argentina)
Wim Degrave (Instituto Oswaldo Cruz - Fiocruz, Brazil)

Confirmed International Speakers!

Burkhard Rost (Columbia University, USA)
David S. Roos (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Michal Linial (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Terence Speed (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, Australia; and University of California Berkeley, USA)
Daniel Hartl (Harvard University, USA)
Eduardo Rocha (Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6; and Institut Pasteur, France)
Phil Hugenholtz (Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory's Joint Genome Institute, USA)
Marc Marti-Renom (Príncipe Felipe Research Center, Spain)
Winston Hide (South African National Bioinformatics Institute, South Africa)

Organizing Committee

Lucia Peixoto (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
Daniel Almonacid (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Hugo Naya (Bioinformatics Core, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay)
Elena Fabiano (Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay)
Guillherme Oliveira (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - FIOCRUZ, Brazil)
Burkhard Rost (Columbia University, USA)
BJ Morrison McKay (ISCB, USA)
Janet Kelso (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany)

Local Organizing Committee

Hugo Naya (Bioinformatics Core, Institut Pasteur Montevideo, Uruguay)
Fernando Alvarez-Valin (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Hector Romero (Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay)
Elena Fabiano (Instituto de Investigaciones Biológicas Clemente Estable, Uruguay)

Program Chair

Daniel Almonacid (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Scientific session chairs are the corresponding leaders of each session (see Program)

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ISCB Meetings

A core element of ISCB's mission is to advance the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. A concerted effort toward achieving this mission is focused on serving our global membership through high quality meetings. Intellectual leadership through meetings is a long standing tradition of the ISCB as evidenced by the growing list of conferences and events the Society produces directly or co-sponsors/affiliates-with each year. Each conference that bears the ISCB name or logo is intended to achieve rapid dissemination of the latest scientific trends and topics by highlighting emerging and continuing challenges of our science. Society activities are further diversified through specialized tracks/workshops/sessions within these conferences or as stand-alone events.

ISCB Conference offerings include:

ISMB since 1993
Rocky since 2003
CSHALS since 2008
ISCB Africa ASBCB since 2009
ISCB Latin America since 2010
GLBIO since 2011
ISCB Asia since 2011
Affiliated & Co-Sponsored Meetings & Events

Past Conferences & Events - A complete listing of past ISCB produced and past affiliated/co-sponsored meetings is available to gain a historical perspective of when and where various meetings have been held.