ISMB Conference Series |
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. |
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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. |
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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