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ISMB ECCB 2017 July 21-25, 2017 Prague Czech Republic	ISCB Africa ASBCB 2017 October 10-13, 2017 Entebbe, Uganda	RECOMB/ISCB Conference Regulatory & Systems Genomics with DREAM SAVE THE DATE November 19 - 21, 2017 New York, NY	Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (Rocky 2017) Dec 7 - 9, 2017 Aspen/Snowmass, CO

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2017 FIRST Global Challenge: July 16-18, 2017, Washington DC
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ISCB Buzz: Latest News, Events & Announcements!

UPCOMING CONFERENCES

ISMB ECCB 2017 July 21-25, 2017 Prague Czech Republic	ISCB Africa ASBCB 2017 October 10-13, 2017 Entebbe, Uganda	RECOMB/ISCB Conference Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM SAVE THE DATE November 19 - 21, 2017 New York, NY	Youth Bioinformatics Symposium (YBS) 2017 Postponed until Fall 2017 George Mason University

ISCB Leadership Nominations: Deadline May 31, 2017
ISCB Members are encouraged to put forward nominees for open Officer positions. Last call for Officer Nominations!

Emerging Global Threats Challenge: Deadline: June 01, 2017
ISCB will give out the Emerging Global Threats Challenge Award, along with a prize of $2000, at its July 2017 annual meeting. This challenge is to use computational research to better understand and combat an emerging global threat. Send in your submission today to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.!

ISCB Art in Science Competition: Deadline: June 15, 2017
ISCB invites submission to the 2017 ISCB Art in Science competition.
Visit www.iscb.org/iscb-art-in-science-competition to submit your work today!

GIW/BIOINFO 2017: Deadline: June 15, 2017
The 28th International Conference on Genome Informatics Workshop (GIW) / BIOINFO 2017 Call for Papers! Papers in all areas related to works that are ultimately devoted to the computational understanding of biological systems on a molecular basis will be considered.

Submit your abstract to the 16th CRG Symposium: Seventh International Workshop on Genomic Epidemiology, 20-22 September 2017. Visit www.crg.eu/en/event/16th-crg-symposium-seventh-international-workshop-genomic-epidemiology for more information!

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Call For Technology Talks!

Promote Your Innovative Tools, Methods, Service at ISMB/ECCB: Call for Tech Talks Closes 18 May!
 
1400+ attendees from 50+ countries

ISMB/ECCB attracts top international scientists and key decision makers in the life sciences from the world’s largest and most prestigious research institutions and companies.

55-minute session
• For-profit organization $2,000
• Not-for-profit Member $1500
• Not-for-profit Non-Member $1750

18 minute session
• For-profit organization $1250
• Not-for-profit Member $500
• Not-for-profit Non-Member $750

**Innovation Forum Members receive 50% off! Contact Andy Falter (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) for more information!

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Its' Not Too Late! Final Hours to Submit a Poster to ISMB/ECCB 2017!

Submit your research today to be a part of the premier comp bio conference of 2017!

Poster Topic Areas:

• (3Dsig) Structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics 
• (BOSC) Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
• Bio-Ontologies
• BioVis
• CAMDA
• Education
• Function
• (HitSeq) High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms and Applications
• RNA
• Network Biology
• Regulatory Genomics (RegGenSig)
• Computational Modeling of Biological Systems (SysMod)
• Translational Medicine (TransMed)
• VarI
• Other Topics

Submit a poster now to ISMB/ECCB 2017!

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A themed ISMB/ECCB 2017 for better tracking of recent research developments and networking

The ISMB/ECCB 2017 conference has been designed to make it easy for researchers sharing common interests to come together and listen to exciting new developments in their field. At the heart of the meeting are fourteen established communities (COSIs – Communities of Special Interest) reflecting most of the major research themes and training in computational biology. These comprise:

• 3DSIG – structural bioinformatics
• Bioinfo-Core – core competencies in bioinformatics
• BioOntologies – ontologies for medicine and life sciences
• BioVis – visualization of biological data
• BOSC - Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
• COBE – Bioinformatics Education
• CAMDA – analysis of heterogenous datasets
• Function – methods for protein function annotation
• HitSeq - high throughput sequencing algorithms and applications
• IRB – computational and experimental aspects of research in RNA biology
• NetBio – methods and tools for network biology
• RegSys – computational methods for studying the regulation of genes and systems
• SysMod – computational modelling of biological systems
• TransMed – computational approaches in clinical and translational medicine
• VariSIG – methods for understanding the impacts of genetic variation

Each day of the four-day conference includes COSI track presentations. A schedule overview is available here. In addition, a variety of workshops, special sessions and focused presentations on other important research area topics in computational biology are scheduled. Some of these are around new budding communities and include: Critical Assessment of Metagenome Interpretation; Computational Immune Oncology; Machine Learning in Systems Biology; along with a Bioinformatics Core Workshop and Workshop on Education in Bioinformatics.

These newly organized community sessions (COSI tracks) include talks from ‘proceedings’ submissions, which will be published in a special issue of Bioinformatics, and other scientific talks on previously published research (Highlights) and exciting late-breaking unpublished research.

In essence the meeting will encompass all of the familiar themes and tracks, such as proceedings, highlight, or late breaking topics, that made ISMB/ECCB a pillar of the community in previous years, but will now offer an improved quality in the experience for you, the delegate. You now have the opportunity to listen to talks on the same theme, opportunities to engage in discussions and networking with other like-minded researchers, in a much more themed-focused program.

Experience it for yourself and register for ISMB/ECCB 2017! This is your chance to fully immerse yourself in an environment that facilitates connecting fellow researchers in your community and to find out about new emerging communities. We are confident that the changes to ISMB/ECCB 2017 will make it easier to follow exciting developments and make new friends and colleagues.

There is still an opportunity to present at the conference. Poster submissions deadline is May 15 and Technology Talk submissions are due May 18.

Looking forward to seeing you in Prague at ISMB/ECCB 2017!!

Sincerely,

Yves Moreau and Janet Thornton
ISMB/ECCB 2017 Conference Chairs

 ISMB/ECCB 2017 To Do List: Submit a Poster Today!

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ISMB/ECCB 2017 - Call for Posters!

Final days to submit your research today to be a part of the premier comp bio conference of 2017!

Poster Topic Areas:

• Structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics (3Dsig)
• Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)
• Bio-Ontologies
• BioVis
• CAMDA
• Education
  Function
  High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms and Applications (HitSeq)
• RNA
• Network Biology
• Regulatory Genomics (RegGenSig)
• Computational Modeling of Biological Systems (SysMod)
• Translational Medicine (TransMed)
• VarI
• Other Topics

Join us for ISMB/ECCB 2017!

Join Us! UNIV. of ILLINOIS at CHICAGO MAY 15 - 17, 2017 Mark your calendars!
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Have you registered yet for GLBIO 2017 - There is still time!

Join your colleagues for 3 days of fostering long term collaborative relationships,
networking opportunities & top notch science within the domain of computational biology.

Online Reg Deadline:  May 01
Room Rate Deadline:  May 03

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CALL FOR POSTERS!

Submit your research today to be a part of the premier comp bio conference of 2017!

Poster Topic Areas:

• Structural bioinformatics and computational biophysics (3Dsig)
• Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC)
• Bio-Ontologies
• BioVis
• CAMDA
• Education
  Function
  High Throughput Sequencing Algorithms and Applications (HitSeq)
• RNA
• Network Biology
• Regulatory Genomics (RegGenSig)
• Computational Modeling of Biological Systems (SysMod)
• Translational Medicine (TransMed)
• VarI
• Other Topics

Submit a poster now to ISMB/ECCB 2017!

Don’t miss your chance to discover, innovate and connect!

ISCB Supports National Institutes of Health Interim Research Products Policy Change

Open access to data, software and publications enables scientific progress and is a core and foundational principle of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). ISCB was delighted to learn of and fully supports The National Institution of Health’s policy, which allows investigators to cite their interim research products, such as preprints, and claim them as products of NIH funding.
 
Pre-print servers have emerged as a rapid and important means for molecular and computational biologists to make their data and discoveries widely available prior to publication in peer-reviewed journals. ISCB’s two affiliated journals, Bioinformatics and PLOS Computational Biology, have for years encouraged the submission of papers previously deposited in pre-print servers.
 
The availability of these data forms are the basis of our ability as computational biologists to mine and integrate data from several sources in order to make new discoveries. This principle forms the basis of our professional activity as Bioinformatians and Computational Biologists and underlies our Society’s mission to advance understanding of living systems through computation and to communicate scientific advances worldwide.
 
ISCB is pleased to learn that the National Institutes of Health also sees the great value of interim research products and therefore strongly supports the recent policy change.  ISCB will continue to encourage the deposition of papers in pre-print servers, in the same way that we support the deposition of software and data in the appropriate repositories prior to publication in peer-reviewed journals.
 
It is, however, still largely misunderstood how important this data is and ISCB will continue to work towards educating other funding agencies on this matter.

https://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-17-050.html