InCoB celebrates its tenth anniversary as first joint conference with ISCB-Asia.

TitleInCoB celebrates its tenth anniversary as first joint conference with ISCB-Asia.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2011
AuthorsSchönbach, C, Tan, TWee, Kelso, J, Rost, B, Nathan, S, Ranganathan, S
JournalBMC Genomics
Volume12 Suppl 3
PaginationS1
Date Published2011 Nov 30
ISSN1471-2164
KeywordsAsia, Computational Biology, Databases, Factual, Genomics, Proteome, Sequence Analysis, DNA, Societies, Scientific, Software
Abstract

In 2009 the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) started to roll out regional bioinformatics conferences in Africa, Latin America and Asia. The open and competitive bid for the first meeting in Asia (ISCB-Asia) was awarded to Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) which has been running the International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) in the Asia-Pacific region since 2002. InCoB/ISCB-Asia 2011 is held from November 30 to December 2, 2011 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Of 104 manuscripts submitted to BMC Genomics and BMC Bioinformatics conference supplements, 49 (47.1%) were accepted. The strong showing of Asia among submissions (82.7%) and acceptances (81.6%) signals the success of this tenth InCoB anniversary meeting, and bodes well for the future of ISCB-Asia.

DOI10.1186/1471-2164-12-S3-S1
Alternate JournalBMC Genomics
PubMed ID22369160
PubMed Central IDPMC3333168