ISMB 2008 Toronto

Abstract

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) presents the Sixteenth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2008), to be held in Toronto, Canada, July 19-23, 2008. Now in the final phases of scheduling selected presentations, demonstrations, and posters, the organizers are preparing what will likely be recognized as the premier conference on computational biology in 2008. ISMB 2008 (http://www.iscb.org/ ismb2008/) will follow the road paved by the ISMB/ECCB 2007 (http://www.iscb. org/ismbeccb2007/) in Vienna in the attempt to specifically encourage increased participation from previously under-represented disciplines of computational biology. This conference will feature the best of the computer and life sciences through a variety of core sessions running in multiple parallel tracks, along with single-tracked Keynote Presentations, posters on display throughout the duration of the conference, and an extensive commercial exposition. The first day (July 18) of the meeting is reserved for two-day Special Interest Group (SIG) and Satellite meetings, the second day (July 19) runs SIGs for the first time in parallel with Tutorials and the Student Council Symposium, and for the first time two SIGs are running in parallel with the main ISMB meeting (July 20-23). © 2008 Linial et al.