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The 2015 ISCB Spring NewsletterThe ISCB Spring Newsletter
Click through the exciting updates within the community and learn more about ISCB's new initiatives in the 2015 Spring Newsletter.
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| Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO 2015) Purdue University West Lafayette, Indiana, USA May 18 - 20, 2015 |
Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2015 and 14th European Conference on Computational Biology Dublin, Ireland July 10 – 14, 2015 The Flagship Meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology |
SAVE THE DATE! RECOMB/ISCB Conference on Regulatory and Systems Genomics, with DREAM Challenges Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA November 16 - 18, 2015 |
F1000Research to publish new ISCB Community Journal onlineThe International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) and F1000Research are pleased to announce the formation of an innovative partnership to produce the ISCB Community Journal - a new, dedicated, digital channel on the F1000Research publishing platform.
The ISCB Community Journal will be launched on F1000Research this summer to provide the ISCB’s growing membership and conference attendees with an affordable, open publishing platform for research presented at official and affiliated ISCB conferences.
Scientists who belong to the ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) or who attend its Special Interest Group (SIG) meetings will also be able to take advantage of the new channel.
The initiative will enable ISCB to support the publication of research in a range of formats in one centralised channel for the first time. Articles based upon the research presented at official and affiliated conferences will be published using F1000Research’s immediate publication and transparent peer review model, without limitation on article size, type, or perceived impact.
ISCB conference attendees will also be able to share and publish the academic posters and slides that are presented at each conference and host them in one easily searchable domain.
Diane E. Kovats, Executive Director, ISCB, said: “F1000Research’s platform offers a viable alternative to traditional scholarly society journals."
“A lot of high-quality and valuable science that is shared at conferences, including posters and slide presentations, never gets published, and essentially becomes ‘lost’ research. In the digital age, it should be possible to share all the science presented at conferences quickly and easily.”
Michael Markie, Associate Publisher of F1000Research, said: “There is always a treasure chest of research that is presented at academic conferences that never sees the light of day. This research often contains early findings, in order to obtain feedback or to identify potential collaborators. All this research takes significant time, effort and cost, but may be viewed by only a small number of conference participants before the work disappears. This represents a huge waste of funding and researcher time, leads to studies being needlessly repeated, and slows scientific progress.”
Rebecca Lawrence, Managing Director of F1000Research, said: “We are delighted to be collaborating with the ISCB on creating and publishing their innovative ISCB Community Journal. F1000 and the ISCB have always shared closely aligned goals in wanting to find ways to enable the rapid dissemination of all types of research outputs. It is particularly fitting that our first society channel is with the ISCB.”
For more information on the ISCB Community Journal, read the F1000Research blog http://blog.f1000research.com/2015/04/30/f1000research-to-publish-the-iscb-community-journal
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Call for Editors – ISCB Community Journal ISCB is seeking scholars interested in serving as volunteer editors for the ISCB Community Journal. If you are interested, please submit your nomination using our online system. If you have a colleague who may enjoy serving as a volunteer editor for ISCB, please feel free to forward this information. |
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ISCB Buzz: Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations, Call for ISCB Leadership Nominations - Board of Directors Due 16 April!
If you know of excellent candidates that meet the eligibility requirements, please be sure to submit your nomination(s).
GLBIO 2015 Program Taking Shape!
The ISCB’s Tenth Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference will be held May 18-20 at Purdue University. The event will offer outstanding keynote speakers, tutorials, workshops, oral presentations and posters.
ISMB/ECCB 2015: Call for Late Poster Submissions!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 will bring together scientists from a wide range of disciplines, including molecular biology, biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. We are soliciting high-quality research posters in any aspect of computational biology. Deadline for Late Poster Submissions: April 16! Submit Now!
Professor Thomas Lengauer Receives Hector Science Prize
Prof. Thomas Lengauer, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics in Saarbrücken, has been awarded the Hector Science Prize. The Hector Foundation II herewith honors his achievements in the field of bioinformatics and his commitment to teaching in higher education. The prize of 150,000 euros is awarded annually to outstanding researchers at German universities.
Upcoming Key Dates for ISCB Affiliated Conferences
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ISMB/ECCB 2015 - Career Fair!
Looking for a job? Looking for that top candidate in the field? Check out the ISMB/ECCB 2015 Job site, connecting employers with job seekers in computational biology and bioinformatics!
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ISCB Buzz: ISCB Mourns the Loss of John Wooley, Exciting Program at ISMB/ECCB 2015, AKES, Conference Jobs Board & More!ISCB Mourns the Loss of John Wooley
Dr. John Wooley shaped policy at the U.S. National Science Foundation and U.S. Department of Energy to pave the way for massive growth and transformation in the field of computational biology. He passed away in April after prolonged cancer. After decades spent launching new initiatives in computational biology that pushed forward discoveries, innovation, and national programs in genomics, protein structure, crystallography, and systems biology, Dr. Wooley served as Vice Chancellor for Research and Professor of Pharmacology at the University of California, San Diego.
Exciting Program line-up at ISMB/ECCB 2015!
"The Conference program looks spectacular! There has been a massive growth in the area of translational Bioinformatics with its own Special Session on July 13th as well as many talks within the Disease theme of the conference. It is wonderful to see the promise of Computational Biology to improve health coming to the fore." - Alex Bateman, Conference Co-Chair
Workshops AKA AKES!
New for 2015! The Applied Knowledge Exchange Sessions provide interactive educational and knowledge exchange opportunities!
ISMB/ECCB 2015 Conference Jobs Board
Look no further! Recruit - Job search - Network all in on place at the ISMB/ECCB 2015 Career Fair, connecting employers with job seekers in computational biology and bioinformatics!
Call for Editors -- ISCB Community Journal
ISCB is seeking scholars interested in serving as volunteer editors for the ISCB Community Journal. If you are interested, please submit your nomination using our online system. If you have a colleague who may enjoy serving as a volunteer editor for ISCB, please feel free to forward this information.
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| RECOMB 2015 Poland - Warsaw Apr 12 through Apr 15 RECOMB 2015 is the nineteenth in a series of well-established scientific conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in life sciences, proceeding presentations of peer-reviewed research papers in computational biology, and poster sessions on the latest research progress. .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent |
| Bio-IT World Conference & Expo 2015 United States - MA - Massachuset - Boston Apr 21 through Apr 23 Join us for the 14th annual Bio-IT World Conference & Expo being held April 21 - 23, 2015 at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, Massachusetts. Over the course of three days, researchers from academia and industry will discuss themes of big data, security, cloud computing, trends in IT infrastructure, omics technologies, high-performance computing, data analytics and precision medicine, from the research realm to the clinical arena. Building on the success and popularity of last year’s event, the 2015 Expo plans to unite 3,000+ life sciences, pharmaceutical, clinical, healthcare, and IT professionals from 32+ countries. .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 10 percent |
| GIW/InCoB-Asia 2015 Japan - Tokyo Sep 09 through Sep 11 GIW/InCoB 2015 is the first joint conference between GIW and IncoB, two prominent international bioinformatics conferences in East Asia with a combined history of 40 years. Call for Papers & Oral Presentations Deadline: 2015-04-22 .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 15 percent |
| Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016 United States - HI - Kohala Coast Jan 04 through Jan 08 The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016 is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Papers and presentations are rigorously peer reviewed and are published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2016 marks the 21st anniversary of PSB. PSB 2016 will be held January 4-8, 2016 at the Fairmont Orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. Early Registration Deadline: 2015-10-31 .................................................................. ISCB Member Discount: 50 USD |