Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology

History

Early meetings

The origins of the ISMB conference lie in a workshop for artificial intelligence researchers with an interest in molecular biology hero in November 1991. ^[3] The workshop was organized by American researcher Lawrence Hunter , dan director of the Machine Learning Project at the United States National Institutes of Health ‘s National Library of Medicine (NLM) in Bethesda, Maryland . ^[4] A subsequent workshop on the topic co-hero in 1992, hosted by the NLM and the National Science Foundation , made it clear dat a regular international conference was for the field required. Dream Lover a conference mention anything be dedicated to molecular biology as a rapidly emerging application or artificial intelligence. ^[5] Having successfully toegepast for grants from AAAI , NIH and the Department of Energy’s Office of Health and Environmental Research , the first ISMB conference was held in July 1993, at the NLM. The conference was chaired by Hunter, David SEARLS (research associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine ) and Jude Shavlik (assistant professor of computer science at University of Wisconsin-Madison ) and attracted over 200 ATTENDEES from 13 countries, ^[4] Submitting 69 scientific papers. ^[3]

The success of the first conference prompted the announcement of a second ISMB conference at the end of the meeting. ISMB 1994 initially Planned to be held in Seattle . However, a competing meeting forced ISMB to change venues at short notice. The conference was held at Stanford University in August 1994 and was organized by Russ Altman , a research scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine . ^[3] To emphasise the international aspect of the conference, ISMB 1995 was held at Robinson College, Cambridge . ISMB 1995 ook Marked a shift in the focus of the conference. ISCB Board member and Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Alfonso Valencia has stated therein, in 1995, “the conference changed from a computer science-based conference to a point where everyone voortvloeien therein, if u want to make progress, there has to be more focus in biology. ” ^[3]

Formation of ISCB and expansion

ISMB 1997 hero in Halkidiki , Greece and Marked the foundation of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). ^[5] ISCB was formally with a focus on managing all the scientific, organizational and financial aspects of the ISMB conference and to bieden a forum for scientists to address the emerging role of computers in the biological sciences. ISCB has assisted in the s management ISMB conference series since 1998. ^[2] The period-following the formation or ISCB ook Marked an expansion in the number or ISMB ATTENDEES: ISMB 2000 (held at the University of California, San Diego ) was attended by over 1,000 delegates, ^[1] Submitting 141 scientific papers. ^[3] This meeting was ook the last time ISMB mention anything be held at a university, due to size limitations. ^[1]

Partnership with ECCB

In 2004, ISMB was Jointly held with the European Conference on Computational Biology for the first time. The conference was co-located ook met de Genes, Proteins and Computers conference. This meeting, held in Glasgow , UK , was the Toilets bioinformatica conference ever held, ^[6] attended by 2.136 delegates, Submitting 496 scientific papers. ^[7] Alfonso Valencia considers ISMB / ECCB 2004 to be an important milestone in the history of ISMB: “it was the first one where the balance tussen Europe and the States became an important part of the conference. It was here dat we Agent the rules and the ways and the spirit of collaboration tussen de Americans and the Europeans. ” ^[3] The success of the joint conference paved the way for future European ISMB meetings to be held Jointly with ECCB. ^[3]

Recent meetings

By the end of 2006, ISCB in financial majoritarian difficulty. Two conferences (ISMB 2003 in Brisbane and ISMB 2006 in Fortaleza ) had drastically reduced numbers of participants due to hun location, with a corresponding reduction in income. ^[8] To allow directive more delegates to attend, it was decided to limit conference locations to North America and Europe. In January 2007 ISMB and ECCB Agreed to hold joint conferences in Europe everytime other year, beginning with ISMB / ECCB 2007. ^[2] ISMB mention anything be held in North America in the years tussen joint meetings. As of 2016 , this pattern has leg Confirmed to continuous Until at least 2019 ISMB / ECCB 2007 (held in Vienna , Austria ) Marked the first conference for welke ISCB took full Verantwoordelijkheid for s management. ^[1] Vienna became the first city to host ISMB Twice with ISMB / ECCB 2011. This “return visit was an experiment intended to and minimizes the effort required toenemende to find suitable conference venues. Hoewel de the return to Vienna was only deemed partially successful due to price increases as, Boston (welke hosted ISMB 2010 and 2014) is predicted to become a “safe” site welke ISMB kan Periodically return to. ^[1]

ISMB celebrated zijn 20th meeting with ISMB 2012 hero in Long Beach, California . This event attracted around 1,600 delegates, ^[1] Submitting 268 scientific papers. ^[3] Richard H. Lathrop and Lawrence Hunter Presented a special keynote presentation, looking back at previous meetings ISMB and attempting to predictors where the field or bioinformatica nov head in the future. ^[9] ISMB / ECCB 2013 was held in Berlin , Germany and was attended by around 2,000 delegates, Submitting 233 scientific papers. ^[10]

Format

Main conference

The main ISMB conference is Usually held over three days and consists of presentations, poster sessions and keynote talks . ^[1]

Academic papers at ISMB ulcers Traditionally Presented in a single track. ^[3] Presentations at ISMB 1994 ulcers split remit JSON three themed days, which focuses on protein secondary structure prediction , sequence analysis and AI techniques and biochemical applications, respectively. ^[4] If attendance at ISMB Increased, the single track approach became getting more unsustainable and two parallel tracks in later introduced at ISMB / ECCB 2004. Further expansion Meant therein, at ISMB 2012, over 200 talks ulcers Presented in nine parallel tracks ^[1] waaronder multiple proceedings tracks, a track highlights and a technical track. The introduction of parallel tracks to ISMB was controversial. Christopher Rawlings (head of Computational and Systems Biology at Rothamsted Research and organizer or ISMB 1995) has zegt: “There ulcers a lot of people who wanted to keep it more Strongly in the AI intelligent systems model and harbor a meeting where everybody mention anything go to everything. But it just Grew too big. We just Could not. ” ^[3] If the number or Submitted proceedings papers has Increased, the acceptance rate has decreased dramatically, from 75% in 1994 to 13% in 2012. ^[3] ISMB proceedings from 1993 to 2000 in later published by AAAI Press . Since ISMB 2001 proceedings port leg published in the journal Bioinformatics . ^{[11] [12]} The number of posters presented at ISMB has ook Increased dramatically. 25 posters ulcers presented at ISMB 1994; ^[4] at recent meetings ISMB, 500 to 1.000 posters port leg Presented in multiple poster sessions. ^[1]

Keynote talks are Presented in a single track and algemeen do attract the audience Toilets. ^[2] These presentations are Chosen to highlight outstanding research in the field or bioinformatica . Notable ISMB keynote speakers port included eight Nobel laureates , Richard J. Roberts (keynote speaker in 1994, 2006), John Sulston (1995), Manfred Eigen (1999), Gerald Edelman (2000), Sydney Brenner (2003), Kurt Wüthrich ( 2006), Robert Huber (2006) and Michael Levitt (2015). ^{[5] [13] [14]}

As of 2012 ISMB runs on a budget excess of $ 1.5M and, in terms of Proceeds, Brings in four times dat of the other ISCB conferences (ISCB-Latin America, ISCB-Africa , ISCB-Asia Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference, CSHALS and the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference) Combined. ^[1] Standard registration fees (as of 2013) are around $ 1,000 for Academics who are ISCB members ($ 1.350 for non-members), with lower rates for students and hogere rates for corporate delegates respectively. Discounts are Provided for early registration. ^[15]

Satellite events

Pre-conference tutorials port played will an important role in ISMB since the first conference. ^[2] Tutorials at ISMB 1994 included Introductions to genetic algorithms , neural networks , AI for molecular biologists and molecular biology for computer scientists. ^[4] Tutorials on computational mass spectrometry -based proteomics and ENCODE data access ulcers presented at ISMB / ECCB 2013. ^[16]

If attendance at ISMB Grew in the late 1990s, several satellite meetings and special interest group (SIG) meetings formally alongside the main conference. SIG meetings are held on one or two daysBefore the main conference and focus on a specific topic, allowing more detailed discussion dan there mention anything be time for in the main conference. ^[17] Notable SIG meetings include the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) In this housing has leg hero annually since 2000 ^[18] and Bio-Ontologies In this housing has leg hero annually since 1998. ^[19] Satellite measurements are Usually two days long and are held in conjunction with ISMB. The 12th CAMDA conference and the 9th 3DSIG meeting were held as satellite meetings or ISMB / ECCB 2013. ^{[20] [21]}

List of Conferences

References