International Society for Computational Biology

Final Days to Submit a Nomination to the ISCB Fellows Program

Recognize a Colleague for Distinguished Science

Nominations Deadline - 08 December

We consider two types of Fellow nominations:

(i) Academic nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in academia, including government and research institutions. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily excellence in research, which includes the development of methods or resources that advance research. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to service to the computational biology community, education and/or administration.

(ii) Industry nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in industry. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily the impact of their industrial work on the field. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to research, education, or service to the computational biology community, e.g. by providing research infrastructure.

The Fellows program is nomination based and we strong encourage the submission of nominations that are diverse in nature.

New Fellows are introduced at each year's ISMB conference.

Scroll through the list of previous ISCB Fellows:

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Final Day to Nominate a Colleague for an ISCB Award

Awards Nominations Deadline - TODAY 02 December

Submit your nomination for one of these annual awards today.

The program is nomination based and we strong encourage the submission of nominations that are diverse in nature.

The award winners will be announced in Spring 2021.

Nominate a scientist for one of the four distinguished awards below

The Overton Prize is awarded for outstanding accomplishment to a scientist in the early to mid-career stage (up to a decade post-degree), who has already made a significant contribution to the field of computational biology.

ISCB Overton Prize Award

The Senior Scientist Accomplishment Award recognizes a member of the computational biology community who is more than two decades post-degree and has made major contributions to the field of computational biology.

ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award

The Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award is in recognition of outstanding service contributions by any member toward the betterment of ISCB through exemplary leadership, education, service, or a combination of the three.

ISCB Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award

The ISCB Innovator Award is given to a leading scientist, 10-20 years post-degree, who consistently makes outstanding contributions to the field of computational biology and continues to forge new directions.

ISCB Innovator Award

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Nominations Deadline - 08 December

We consider two types of Fellow nominations:

(i) Academic nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in academia, including government and research institutions. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily excellence in research, which includes the development of methods or resources that advance research. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to service to the computational biology community, education and/or administration.

(ii) Industry nominees: These are nominees who have done the bulk of their work in industry. Such nominations must demonstrate primarily the impact of their industrial work on the field. The nomination can be strengthened by pointing to research, education, or service to the computational biology community, e.g. by providing research infrastructure.

The Fellows program is nomination based and we strong encourage the submission of nominations that are diverse in nature.

New Fellows are introduced at each year's ISMB conference.

Scroll through the list of previous ISCB Fellows:

ISCB DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS

NOMINATE A FELLOW

ISCB Writes Nature Communications Urging the Correction/Retraction of Recent Article on Mentoring

The Executive Committee and Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) recently sent a letter to the Editor in Chief of Nature Communications regarding a recently published article in that journal and urging the publisher to (i) retract the paper or (ii) make authors mend all methodological flaws, cite and contextualize their work with respect to pertinent literature, and consider and discuss possible explanations for their observed findings.

The article, “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance," by Alshebi et al, studies mentorship in scientific collaboration. After scientific review of the article and the related supporting material, the ISCB Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee found the outcomes of the article to be discriminatory with untenable recommendations that could have far-reaching consequences. The letter sent by ISCB to the publisher furthers details that the data the authors analyze do not to support their claims, findings and recommendations.

ISCB acknowledges, respects, and promotes the value of a diverse community as core to our international organization and culture. As an organization, we cannot stand by and allow such information to be published that could hurt our science. We stand for an inclusive spirit of our community that we regard as one of the foundations of successful science in a globalized world.

Read a copy of the letter to Nature Communications here.
Read a copy of the response here.

Nature Communications's investigation into the paper, “The association between early career informal mentorship in academic collaborations and junior author performance," by Alshebi et al, has concluded. The authors have retracted this paper. You can find more information in our editorial (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20618-x) and in the retraction note (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-20617-y).

ISMB/ECCB 2021
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Update regarding ISMB/ECCB 2021:

The ISCB leadership, ECCB leadership, and ISMB/ECCB 2021 Steering Committee continue to monitor the global COVID-19 pandemic, always keeping the health and safety of our membership and community at the top of our minds. At this time, we remain optimistic that we will have the opportunity to gather together in Lyon, France in July 2021. We understand that many of you may still be concerned about traveling under travel restrictions. Thus we are offering to our community the ability to attend the ISMB/ECCB 2021 conference either in person or virtually. Continue reading...

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Deadline: December 14, 2020

Submit your proposal and build knowledge and provide hands-on training in "cutting-edge" topics relevant to the bioinformatics field and the COSI communities.

Potential topic areas may include but are not limited to the following:

Analysis of long read-sequencing data
AI and Machine Learning for bioinformatics
GA4GH tools for data sharing
Single-cell RNA, DNA or protein analysis
Translational informatics: Opportunities for bioinformatics in the clinical realm
Assembly of genomes in metagenomics
How to make your software sustainable and reusable for open access or commercial usage
Biological Sciences for Bioinformaticians
Data Science in Genomics
Workflow tools
Data Visualization for Bioinformatics
Bioinformatics on Cloud Platforms
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Submit Your Nomination - ISCB Awards

Awards Nominations Deadline - 02 December

Submit your nomination for one of these annual awards today.

The program is nomination based and we strong encourage the submission of nominations that are diverse in nature.

The award winners will be announced in Spring 2021.

Nominate a scientist for one of the four distinguished awards below

ISCB Overton Prize Award

ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award

ISCB Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award

ISCB Innovator Award

Recognize a Colleague for Distinguished Science:

Scroll through the list of previous ISCB Fellows:

ISCB DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS

NOMINATE A FELLOW

RSG with DREAM 2020, November 16-19, 2020

Register online to attend RSGDREAM 2020

Online Registration deadline:
November 12, 2020

Join your colleagues for the virtual RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges, one of the premier annual meetings in the fields of regulatory genomics, systems biology, and network visualization.

Don't miss the incredible keynote line-up coming to a virtual landscape near you!

Keynote Speakers:

This multidisciplinary conference brings together both computational and experimental researchers from across the world to discuss recent discoveries about genomic and molecular regulatory networks as well as innovative, integrative methods for developing a systems-level understanding of biological activity.

The conference's virtual program activities will begin on Monday, November 16, 2020 and conclude on Thursday, November 19, 2020

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Mark your calendars for November 12, 2020!

Please use the link below to find more information or to register for:

November 12, 2020 at 11:00 AM EST, The Illusion of Inclusion — The “All of Us” Research Program and Indigenous Peoples’ DNA by Keolu Fox, hosted by ISCB

Raw data, including digital sequence information derived from human genomes, have in recent years emerged as a top global commodity. This shift is so new that experts are still evaluating what such information is worth in a global market. In 2018, the direct-to-consumer genetic-testing company 23andMe sold access to its database containing digital sequence information from approximately 5 million people to GlaxoSmithKline for $300 million. Earlier this year, 23andMe partnered with Almirall, a Spanish drug company that is using the information to develop a new antiinflammatory drug for autoimmune disorders. This move marks the first time that 23andMe has signed a deal to license a drug for development.

Eighty-eight percent of people included in large-scale studies of human genetic variation are of European ancestry, as are the majority of participants in clinical trials. Corporations such as Geisinger Health System, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, AncestryDNA, and 23andMe have already mined genomic databases for the strongest genotype–phenotype associations. For the field to advance, a new approach is needed. There are many potential ways to improve existing databases, including “deep phenotyping,” which involves collecting precise measurements from blood panels, questionnaires, cognitive surveys, and other tests administered to research participants. But this approach is costly and physiologically and mentally burdensome for participants. Another approach is to expand existing biobanks by adding genetic information from populations whose genomes have not yet been sequenced — information that may offer opportunities for discovering globally rare but locally common population-specific variants, which could be useful for identifying new potential drug targets.

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Submit Your Nomination - ISCB Awards

Nominate a scientist for one of the four distinguished awards below

ISCB Overton Prize Award

ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award

ISCB Outstanding Contributions to ISCB Award

ISCB Innovator Award

Recognize a Colleague for Distinguished Science:

Scroll through the list of previous ISCB Fellows:

ISCB DISTINGUISHED FELLOWS

NOMINATE A FELLOW

ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX Virtual Symposium, October 28 - 29, 2020

ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX Programme Now Available

ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Symposium on Bioinformatics 2020 has just released the symposium programme!

Symposium Programme Preview

The ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX 2020 Symposium will feature six keynote speakers, 27 talks, a Women in Stem panel and over 50 posters. Participants will have the opportunity to interact with the speakers and poster presenters throughout the event and during designated networking periods. Scientific content will be available starting Oct. 27 and will be streamed on a live broadcast schedule Oct 28-29 with live Q&A.

REGISTER TO ATTEND - Deadline October 19

Don't forget to reserve your spot at an ISCB LA Workshop

Space is limited and complimentary, workshops & tutorials will take place online on October 22nd to 27th.

Workshop: Train the Trainer/Entrenamiento de Instructores/Treine o Treinador
9:00AM - 1:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 22 & 23, 2020

Tutorial: Discovery and phylogenetic characterization of animal viruses from metagenomic samples
9:30AM - 1:30PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 24 & 25, 2020

Workshop: Machine Learning in Bioinformatics using Galaxy
9:00AM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 26, 2020

Workshop: Identification of disease-associated genetic variants from next-generation sequencing data
10:00AM - 2:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 26 & 27, 202

Workshop: Management and good practices in the assembly of bacterial, archaea and fungal genomes
9:00AM - 1:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

Workshop: Introduction to structural bioinformatics for evolutionary analysis
1:00PM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

Workshop: How to annotate protein-coding genes in genomic sequences
1:00PM - 5:00PM Mexican Central Time (CT) on October 27, 2020

WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS

Mark your calendars for Tomorrow, October 8, 2020!

Please use the link below to find more information or to register for:

October 8, 2020 at 1:00PM EDT, Indigenous Voices in Computational Biology: An Introduction to Ethical Genomic Research with Indigenous People by Rene Begay, hosted by ISCB

Indigenous communities through the world have distinct languages, culture, political structures, and ways of knowing. For too long, these communities have been exploited for material goods, land, and more recent for biospecimens. It is important to note that Indigenous people are not anti-science but rather support science that includes their intrinsic perspectives and expertise. Indigenous scientists are emerging across the world bridging science, policy, technology, and Indigenous ways of knowing to determine how their communities can benefit from genomic and clinical health research. The Indigenous Voices in Computational Biology series from the ISCB Academy will highlight the work conducted by Indigenous researchers in the United States, New Zealand, and other countries. Topics will include genomic data sharing, ethical engagement with Indigenous peoples in paleogenomics, and how to responsibly conduct research on Indigenous ancestors (ancient DNA). As a result, Indigenous scientists have developed their own Native biobank and hosted an international Indigenous genomics conference to discuss ethical concerns within their communities and present community based genomic research that integrates Indigenous knowledge. This presentation will introduce the series overarching themes and provide the framework that encourages ethical engagement with Indigenous communities in genomic research.

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