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| The 9th International Joint Conference on Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies - BIOSTEC 2016 Rome - Italy Feb 21, 2016 through Feb 23, 2016 The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. Event Registration: 2015-05-01 through 2015-12-16 .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: none |
| The Fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI) Berkley, CA - United States Mar 25, 2016 through Mar 27, 2016 Call for predictors! The Fourth Critical Assessment of Genome Interpretation (CAGI 4) is underway. CAGI is a community experiment with the primary goals of determining the effectiveness of computational methods for predicting the phenotypic consequences of human genetic variation, and advancing genome interpretation methods. Participants are provided with genotypes and asked to predict the corresponding phenotypes, usually related to genetic disease or cancer. Prediction season runs through December 2015. .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: none |
| Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2016 Boston - United States Apr 05, 2016 through Apr 07, 2016 Since its debut in 2002, the Annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo has established itself as a premier event showcasing the myriad of IT and informatics applications and enabling technologies that drive biomedical research, drug discovery & development, and clinical and healthcare initiatives. The Bio-IT World Conference & Expo continues to be a vibrant event that unites 3,000+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from more than 30 countries. .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent |
| SolBio International Conference and Workshop 2016 Mexico - Quintana Roo - Riviera Maya Apr 22, 2016 through Apr 26, 2016 SoIBio International Conference and Workshop 2016 on "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology for Innovative Genomics". This is an international conference organized by SoIBio, with the support of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), the Laboratorio Internacional de Investigación sobre el Genoma Humano (LIIGH, UNAM) and the Centro de Ciencias Genómicas (CCG, UNAM), that wants to bring together the scientific and technological studies of many groups and institutions from IberoAmerica (including 22 countries) working in the field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Early Registration Deadline: 2016-02-26 .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 15 percent |
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ISCB Buzz: ISCB Buzz: ISCB Ebola Award, Conference Updates & More!
Conference Updates
GLBIO/CCBC 2016 Abstract Submission Deadline:
07 March
NGS 2016 Early Registration Closes:
29 February
Call for Submissions
Submissions are being requested for the new Fight Against Ebola Award. ISCB will award the winning submission at ISMB 2016. Deadline for submissions is April 10, 2016. Click here for more information.
Bonnie Berger to be Inducted into Medical & Biological Engineering Elite!
The American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE) has announced the pending induction of Bonnie Berger, Ph.D., Professor of Applied Math and Computer Science at MIT, and head of the Computation and Biology group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to its College of Fellows.
Registry of Standards
Share your feedback - help us to help you! We would like to ask you 10 questions to assess your needs for a registry of standards in the life, environmental, and biomedical sciences.
FASEB Releases Reproducibility Recommendations
On January 14, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) issued Enhancing Research Reproducibility, a set of recommendations aimed to promote the reproducibility and transparency of biomedical and biological research.
ISCB Executive Committee Responds to New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Data Sharing and the Journal
The recent editorial by Drs. Longo and Drazen in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) [1] has stirred up quite a bit of controversy. As Executive Officers of the International Society of Computational Biology, Inc. (ISCB), we express our deep concern about the restrictive and potentially damaging opinions voiced in this editorial. While some of the concerns voiced by the authors of the editorial are worth considering, large parts of the statement purport an obsolete view of hegemony over data that is neither in line with today’s spirit of open access nor furthering an atmosphere where the potential of data can be fully realized.
We acknowledge that the additional comment on the editorial [2] eases some of the polemics, unfortunately without addressing some of the core issues. We still feel, however, that we need to contrast the opinion voiced in the editorial with what we consider the axioms of our scientific society, statements that lead into a fruitful future of data-driven science:
• Data produced with public money should be public in benefit of the science and society
• Restrictions to the use of public data hamper science and slow progress
• Open data is the best way to combat fraud and misinterpretations
Current large data collections proceed from many sources are continually accumulated and require a variety of analytical approaches. Data generation and data analysis overlap in time and are continually updated with new data sets produced by new techniques and new analysis methodologies. Furthermore, in many cases current science functions in consortia in which scientists collaborate toward common goals while preserving their own scientific objectives. Dividing scientists into data providers and data analysts is simplistic and gives a misleading impression of the actual state of biological and biomedical science.
We very much support collaboration between disciplines, including experimental and clinical as well as bioinformatics, as the best way forward to address complex biological problems. But this collaboration cannot be based on imposed restrictions to data access and cannot be contained in professional silos. (The use of expressions such as “research parasites” clearly does not help.)
Many bio-communities have made significant progress by endorsing open data policies and, gratefully, public funding agencies have connected to the spirit that they are distributing taxpayers’ money to science and that, therefore, the data that are generated in the course belong to the public. It is, perhaps, natural that some areas of biomedical research are slow in adopting these policies. History and the confidential nature of the relevant data are surely one of the reasons. However, in our opinion data hegemony is another, a reason that has to be overcome. The sooner these barriers to progress are removed the sooner the patients will benefit from the current flourishing of biomedical research.
1. Longo, D.L. and J.M. Drazen, Data Sharing. N Engl J Med, 2016. 374(3): p. 276-7.
2. Drazen, J.M., Data Sharing and the Journal. New Engl J Med.
Respectfully submitted,
ISCB Executive Committee
Alfonso VALENCIA, President
Bonnie BERGER, Vice President
Terry GAASTERLAND, Vice President
Thomas LENGAUER, Vice President
Christine ORENGO, Vice President
Bruno GAETA, Treasurer
Scott MARKEL, Secretary
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ISCB Buzz: Conference Updates, Translational Bioinformatics 2016, Ebola Award & Much More! GLBIO/CCBC 2016:
- Full Paper Submissions Deadline: 01 February
- GLBIO/CCBC 2016 Abstract Submission Deadline: 07 March
Call for Nominations for annual review of Translational Bioinformatics 2016!
Call for nominations of exciting papers published between January 2015 and the present. The talk will be held on March 21 in San Francisco as part of www.amia.org/jointsummits2016.
Thomson Reuters Worlds Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015!
ISCB members; Gad Getz, Eric Lander, Alex Bateman, among others noted in the 2015 listing of Thomas Reuters Worlds Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015 report! Read more.
Call for Submissions
Submissions are being requested for the new ISCB Fight Against Ebola Award. ISCB will award the winning submission at ISMB 2016. Deadline for submissions is April 10, 2016. Click here for more information.
ISCB Cited in the Landscape of Bioinformatics Education
ISCB's Education Committee Curriculum Task Force noted in shaping the landscape of bioinformatics education! Click here for the article.