Contact
Nurul Salwanie (admin@apbionet.org)
APBioNET Ltd
Dept of Biochemistry,
MD7 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine,
National University of Singapore,
8 Medical Dr, Singapore, 1175996.
Geographical Area Included
Asia Pacific
Leadership Structure
January 2022-December 2024
President: Harpreet Singh, Ph.D
Hans Raj Mahila Maha Vidyalaya Jalandhar, India
Vice President Operations : Mohammad Asif Khan, University of Doha for Science and Technology, Qatar
Vice President Outreach: Kiyoko F. Kinoshita, Ph.D
Soka University, Japan
Treasurer: Sarinder Kaur, University Malaya, Malaysia
Secretary: N. Latha, Bennett University (Times of India Group), India
Executive Committee Members:
Esra Busra Isik, Turkey
Ragothaman Yennamalli, SASTRA University, India
Shuhaila Mat Sharani, Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia
Yun Zheng, Ph.D, Fudan University, China
Election Process
Call for nominations followed by voting online and at Annual General Meeting.
Election Frequency
Every two years
Member Benefits
Discounted registration fee to attend lnCoB, lnSyB and other APBioNET endorsed events.
Discounts on APBioNET merchandise and publications.
Early invitations and notifications to APBioNet and affiliates events.
Financial support to attend lnCoB/lnSyB or any bioinformatics related events.
Exclusive APBioNET affiliated email.
Eligibility to represent APBioNET at key events or AGM as official delegates.
Recruitment into APBioNET Student Chapter.
Goals
APBioNET The Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet; https://www.apbionet.org/) is a nonprofit, onn-governmental, international organization founded in 1998 that focuses on the promotion of bioinformatics in the Asia-Pacific region.
APBioNET is dedicated to the advancement of the field of bioinformatics, specifically the development of bioinformatics network infrastructure, the exchange of data and information, the development of training programs, workshops and symposia and the encouragement of collaborations in the field of bioinformatics with an Asia Pacific focus.
Vision: Advance the understanding and application of bioinformatics in research, education and services in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mission: APBioNET's mission, since its inception, has been to pioneer the growth and development of bioinformatics awareness, training, education, infrastructure, resources, and research among member countries and economies.
Objectives:
APBioNET is dedicated to:
• to the advancement of the field of bioinformatics and its development network infrastructure the exchange of data and information
• the encouragement of collaborations in the field of bioinformatics
• the development of training programs, workshops and symposia
Activities
InCoB International Conference on Bioinformatics (https://incob.apbionet.org/); annually since 2002, 200-300 participants
The 22nd International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB 2023 https://incob.apbionet.org/incob23) was held as a physical conference Nov 12-15, 202 and organized by Translational Research Institute (TRI), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in partnership with APBioNet; 106 participants
InSyB International Symposium on Bioinformatics, annually since 2017, 80-120 participants.
The 8th International Symposium on Bioinformatics (InSyB2024 https://insyb2024.my.canva.site/) was held in University of Delhi South Campus, India on Nov.29, 2024. The theme of this combined event was "From Codes to Cells: Advances in Bioinformatics ”. InSyB2024 was attended by 200 particpants (60 posters & 60 orals)
APBioNET collaborated together with The University of Montana, in collaboration with the National University of Singapore, the National Science and Technology Development Agency of Thailand, the Agency for Science, Technology, and Research of Singapore, and the National Supercomputing Center of Singapore, is the advanced studies workshops in computational biology in Singapore. The Singapore workshop will cover topics in the analysis of sequence data, biomolecule-ligand affinity estimation, molecular dynamics, and other current and advanced topics. Scientists from the USA, Europe, and Asia will be present as instructors, as they were at the first workshop. https://www.umt.edu/comp-bio-asia/
APBioNetTalks (https://apbtalks.apbionet.org/) was lauchned in 2020. It is platform with the simple mission of empowering the community through bioinformatics learning, education, and training. In 2023 one talk was delivered in November 2023.
APBioNET has launched a Student Ambassador Program (SAP https://www.apbionet.org/student-ambassador-program-sap/). SAP's objective is to create an opportunity for graduate students (the Student Ambassador (SA)) from Asia-Pacific geographical regions to hone bioinformatics-based research skills through a student exchange program and to contribute to APBioNET’s activities. Seven Mentors were appointed for 2022 (India 4; Japan 2; Singapore 1)
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
APBioNET supports every year between 4-6 students to attend InCoB from its Travel Fellowship program http://incob2019.org/travel-grant/. This program was suspended during COVID-19 pandemic.
APBioNET is a Gold member of Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training (GOBLET).
For the time being a candidate for hosting InCoB 2023 has been identified in Australia.
InCoB2024 will be part of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Joint Congress 2024 (APBJC 2024, Oct 21-24, 2024) in Okinawa, Japan. APBioNet has initated discussions and planning more than two years ago. This year involved parties came to an agreement on the dates and venue. The congress will be organized by JSBi, APBioNet, ISCB, GOBLET, Bioclues Organization, MaSBiC, and MABBI.
APBioNET proposed to publish an article on Grand Challenges in Bioinformatics Education (https://www.apbionet.org/bgcc/) and is working with members of other Societies including Goblet and ISCB towards this goal. The final version of the manuscript is expected to be submitted in December 2022.
APBioNET is present in the following social media: Facebook: 889 followers (6% increase); Twitter: 616 followers (24% increase); MailChimp 1682 subscribers (25% increase) ; Since 2016 13 newsletter were published on https://www.apbionet.org/newsletter/.
Last Updated 2025-01-31 08:55:30
Contact
Debnath Pal
Department of Computational and Data Sciences
Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru 560012
Email: dpal@iisc.ac.in
Phone: +918022932901
Mobile: +919880856023
Geographical Area Included
India
Leadership Structure
Convener: Debnath Pal
Co-conveners: Chirag Jain, Sanchit Mishra
Members: Mukund Thattai, Priti Roy, Rahul Siddhartan, Zhumur Ghosh, Partha Majumdar, Ramesh Hariharan, Laxmi Parida
Election Process
Nomination/Invitation
The conveners of the BDBIO Conference are invited to participate in the Steering Committee. Additionally, the ISCB Affiliates Committee members can serve as Ex-Officio members.
Election Frequency
Annually
Member Benefits
Annual Conference – Registration waived, Conference participation support for local hospitality, if selected. Members may network, and partake in the collaborative opportunities at the conference, and may lead, and/or participate in, BDBIO committees and activities.
Goals
Rapid advances in high throughput technologies when coupled with scalable algorithms and analytics enable study of biological systems at an unprecedented resolution. Keeping pace with these developments is challenging for young researchers and graduate students. It was felt that a forum for interaction between students, young researchers and practicing scientists would be useful for all. In this light thought an annual conference was designed to bring together research presentations in bioinformatics, computational biology, and systems biology. The students attending the Annual Conference is supported through cost-free local hospitality and waiver of registration fees. The presentations comprise of invited talks from practicing scientists from both academia and industry, and contributed talks from selected Ph.D. students and Postdocs, and (c) an interactive poster session. The topics typically covered include novel computational, statistical, machine and deep learning methods in applications related to Molecular sequence analysis, RNA sequencing analysis, including single-cell Comparative and population genomics, Cancer and infectious diseases, Computational systems biology, biological networks, Metagenomics, Computational proteomics, metabolomics and pharmacogenomics. The forum has successfully organized the annual conference for the past three years benefiting about 450 participants. The strong feedback from the participants has allowed us to increase the conference attendance, and we hope to grow it further in the coming years.
Activities
Symposium on Big Data Algorithms for Biology 2025, third in its series, was held on May 29 - 31, in the Faculty Hall, Indian Institute of Science Bangalore. It was organized by Dr. Chirag Jain, IISc, Dr. Debnath Pal, IISc, Dr. Shweta Ramdas (Centre for Brain Research) and Dr. Sanchit Misra, Intel Labs. This event featured cutting edge research in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and systems biology. The symposium program, spanning two days, included 12 invited talks and 4 early career speakers from scientists in academia and industry. The event also served as a platform for 57 selected students from all over India to showcase their ongoing research during the poster and networking session. The event was attended by more than 200 participants that included students, speakers, scientists, and working professionals.
A pre-symposium workshop was conducted on May 29th, which was an hands-on training on the topic Genomic large language models. This workshop was intended to give participants an introduction to the theory of large language models and a flavour of how LLMs are used in Biology generally, and in Genomics specifically. The workshop was intended for participants with some basic experience with coding in Python and machine learning/statistics.
The main symposium topics included novel computational, statistical and machine learning methods in applications related to: - Molecular sequence analysis - RNA sequencing analysis, including single-cell - Comparative and population genomics - Cancer and infectious disease - Computational systems biology - Biological networks - Metagenomics - Computational proteomics, metabolomics and pharmacogenomics - Multi-omics data integration.
Overall the event was very well received. The online feedback we collected using a google form from the attendees to identify the strengths of the event, and understand the scope for further improvement also confirmed the same. We will use several feedbacks received in the response to improve our conference next year.
The presentations were recorded for later viewing and uploaded to the YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAU4YrLp-kU9qWL8OkrhvmwvchJ544bWA
Photographs: https://photos.app.goo.gl/qV6sXAP89wS79zDg6
Program summary: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1miBR0bPgBRp58A9Xzf6qoDEyCMa_-2Ds/view?usp=drive_link
Poster session: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1BwYlRVOEL8RwsZMb9UcToIxOosHwjeao/view?usp=drive_link
The conference was supported by funds from the Axis Bank Centre for Mathematics and Computing, IISc. The total funding was 10, 00, 000 INR or about 11, 500 USD. The funds were used to provide local hospitality support to outstation students, travel support to speaker and their local hospitality, and food arrangements during the conference.
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
4th Annual Big Data Biology conference (June 4-6, 2026)
Last Updated 2025-12-24 10:46:52
Contact
Nagarajan Raju (nagarajan@bioclues.org) Outreach Chair and Prashanth Suravajhala, PhD, Founder
Mailing Address: Bioclues.org, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500072
US Phone: +1-541-666-9547
Geographical Area Included
India
Leadership Structure
Bioclues Executive Team (BET):
Founders: Prashanth Suravajhala, PhD. and Pritish Varadwaj, PhD.
Advisors: GPS Raghava, PhD., Dr. Jayaraman Valadi, N Srinivasan, PhD., HA Nagarajaram, PhD., Krishna Mohan Medicheria, PhD., R Keshavachandran, PhD., Pratap VV Reddy, PhD and more.
President: GPS Raghava, PhD.
Vice President: Dr. Jayaraman Valadi
Outreach Chair: Nagarajan Raju, PhD
Chief Scientific Officer: N Srinivasan, PhD.
Entrepreneurship Chair: Mohankumar Megha
Mentoring Chair: Vishal Acharya, PhD
Research Chair: Sriparna Saha, PhD.
Women in Biology Chair: Manika Sehgal, PhD
Women in Biology Co-chair: Sujata Dhar and Dhatri Madduru
Treasurer: Saumyadip Sarkar
Election Process
Mode of election or selection of leaders: Self-nomination and nominations with visions and challenges for Bioclues, followed by casting votes: Winner takes all.
Election Frequency
Frequency of election: Once in two years
Member Benefits
As a registered member you can avail all the facilities including online e-mentoring by Experts from Bioclues. You will also get discounted conference fee, free mentoring and @bioclues.org e mail addressed and discount for Bioclues Merchandise (Mugs and Tee shirts).
Goals
History: Was first founded by Prash Suravajhala and Pritish Varadwaj in 2005, virtual deployment began in mid 2006. BIOCLUES is acronymed for Bioinformatics Club for Experimenting Scientists. The organization was founded in 2005. It is a non-profit virtual organization for, by, and of the Indian Bioinformaticians. It is one of the fastest growing bioinformatics societies in India, currently serving over 3400 members from nearly 30 countries. We aim to bring together the Indian bioinformaticians, foster a strong working mentor–mentee relationship, provide access to bioinformatics resources, organize conferences and workshops besides imparting information about research, training, education, employment and current events and news from bioinformatics, genomics, and related fields. Bioclues adheres to Creative Commons License with the prime focus to help the Bioinformaticians in India to promote open access. In the year 2010, we have setup vision 2020 to ensure our thoughts are converted to actions by the said year.
Goal:
The purpose of this Organization is to promote the interaction among students, scientific professionals and industrialists through budding fields like Systems biology and Computational Biology
Vision:
• To create and disseminate consciousness of research in the field of Bioinformatics and systems biology through webinars
• Identify practicable knowledge drivers through a comprehensive look for computational biologists
• Impart a complete understanding of the principal bioinformatics algorithms and tools through interactive summaries, polls, discussions
• To provide an online project platform for mentoring graduate students, while bridging the interaction of students in the field of computational biology
• To cater the need of assimilating existing open source code and developing novel tools and webservers for research community
• To encourage women scientists take up bioinformatics
• To bridge the gap between academic and industry in terms of Bioinformatics and Bio IT
• (Immediate) Making 2020 Bioinformatics by the year 2020
• Reaching the unreached young scientists and researchers, encouraging them to lessen the scale of experimentation
• Making active Academicians and Entrepreneurs
Objectives:
The organization works on four avenues, viz. Mentoring, Outreach, Research and Entrepreneurship (MORE). We organize conferences, tutorials, trade and industrial shows, educative seminars, colloquiums, workshops so that the student-researchers are ignited in the upcoming facets of computational biology More at www.bioclues.org
Research focus area:
• Annotate and curate next generation sequencing (NGS) Datasets
• Genome Diversity and Coverage Distribution
• Pathway Analysis and Protein Interactions
• Functional Mapping with Gene Ontology
• Pipeline Development/Cloud interfaces
Last Updated 2024-09-20 10:33:26
https://www.iscb-cn.org.cn/index.html
Contact
Xuegong Zhang
zhangxg@tsinghua.edu.cn
Geographical Area Included
China
Leadership Structure
Board of Directors: Hongmin Cai, Ge Gao, Qinghua Jiang, Min Li, Tingting Li, Xiaowo Wang, Xiujie Wang, Xun Xu, Li Yang, Kai Ye, Qiangfeng Zhang, Shihua Zhang, Xuegong Zhang, Yong Zhang, Fangqing Zhao, Xingming Zhao
Chair: Xuegong Zhang
Vice Chairs: Xiujie Wang, Ge Gao, Fangqing Zhao
Acting Director of Office: Xiaowo Wang
Election Process
Founding leadership: selected and voted by a Preparatory Committee composed of professors of the field from major universities and institutions in China.
After the founding, new Chair and Vice Chairs will elected by all members in China, following the ISCB way of election.
Election Frequency
Each term of a leadership position is 3 years. Each individual can take a position for at most 2 continuous terms.
Member Benefits
ISCB-China members are the same as ISCB Members according to the agreement signed for its establishment. ISCB-China will design extra benefits for local members.
Goals
On behalf of the bioinformatics community in China, Xuegong Zhang of Tsinghua University started to discuss with ISCB's leaders in 2023 about the establishment of branches or sub-societies of ISCB in China to expand its influence in China and to make closer connections between computational biologists in China and in the other parts of the world. After months' of discussion and exploration for feasible routes, ISCB and Tsinghua University signed an agreement in May of 2024. The two parties agreed to establish ISCB China Secretariat at Tsinghua University, Department of Automation. In July 2024, Tsinghua University invited a Preparatory Committee led by Xuegong Zhang to design the way of running ISCB China Secretary. The committee decided to build a Council as the organization to run ISCB China Secretariat, named ISCB-China Council or ISCB-China for short. The Board of Directors of ISCB-China was formally found on Sept.7, 2024. And a the Bylaws of ISCB-China was also passed by the Board of Directors on the same day. The opening ceremony of ISCB-China is held on Oct. 26, 2024.
Activities
A summary of activities conducted to support the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology.
1.The First International Symposium on Computational Biology with AI (iscbAI’25) was held from May 30 to June 2, 2025, at Tsinghua University Southeast Asia Center in Bali, Indonesia. Organized by ISCB-China, the symposium brought together 60 leading experts and industry representatives from mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Japan, Australia, Malaysia, the UAE, Indonesia, and beyond. The symposium explored the transformative role of Artificial Intelligence in computational biology, featuring 2 keynotes, 38 technical presentations and 3 panel discussions. Attendees praised the symposium’s high-impact science and vibrant exchanges, marking a pivotal step in reigniting in-person collaboration across the Asia-Pacific. Plans are already underway to expand next year’s event.
2.In the first half of 2025, the working committees of ISCB-China were officially established, including: Academic Conferences and Communication Committee(Chair: Xingming Zhao, FuDan University), Education and Training Committee(Yong Zhang,Tongji University), Organizational Development Committee(Tingting Li, Peking University), Membership Committee(Xiaowo Wang, Tsinghua University), Industry Collaboration Committee(Xun Xu, BGI), Contests and Awards Committee(Kai Ye, Xi'an Jiaotong University)
Ethics, Discipline and Inclusion Committee(Xiujie Wang, Institute of Genetics and Developmental Biology, Chinese Academy of Sciences）
3.ISCB-China Workshop concluded successfully at ISMB/ECCB 2025, drawing over 150 attendees (including researchers, industry leaders, and students) to explore Future Computational Biology in the AI Era. The workshop fostered vibrant cross-border exchanges and strengthened connections between the global computational biology community and Chinese scholars.
4.Four prominent Chinese organizations—Zhejiang Lab, BGI, MGI, and the Future College of South China University of Technology (SCUT)—have participated in exhibition, their exhibition booths featured industry-leading solutions and talent hiring information.
5.The first group of council member candidates (252 in total) was reviewed and approved by the vote of the Board of Directors, ISCB-China Council on September 29, 2025. Being elected as a Member of ISCB-China Council is an important academic honor in the field of computational biology, which fully recognizes the recipients’ professional achievements and academic contributions. This milestone marked the further improvement of the organizational development of ISCB-China, and will inject new vitality into advancing the development of computational biology in China and worldwide.
6.From October 11 to October 27, 2025, ISCB-China successfully completed the election of new Vice-Chairs and BoD Members. Two members have been elected as Vice-Chairs of ISCB-China and Six elected as BoD Members. They will actively contribute their wisdom and efforts to advancing the development of the society and promoting progress in the field of computational biology
7.ISCB-China 2025 Annual Meeting was held successfully in Shekou, Shenzhen on Dec 14, 2025.Over 180 participants attended, including council members, academic experts, and industry representatives from mainland China, Hong Kong (China), and the United States. Attendees engaged in in-depth discussions on cutting-edge advances in computational biology, future trends, and ISCB-China’s development strategy. The meeting featured two keynote speeches, a rapid-presentation session for young council members, meet-the-editors session, and two innovation forums. The innovation forums focused on "The Growth Path of Young Scholars" and "Frontiers Advances and International Collaborations" Attendees engaged in lively and in-depth discussions on topics such as breakthrough directions in basic bioinformatics science, evaluation of multi-omics foundational models, optimization of disciplinary development pathways, and the opportunities and challenges faced in international collaboration.
8.Through 2025, ISCB-China ISCB-China actively collaborated with domestic academic societies, including the Chinese Association of Automation, Shanghai Society for Bioinformatics, and Chinese Association for Artificial Intelligence, supporting the organization of
following conferences: The 4th Chinese Intelligent Health & Bioinformatics Conference (IHB 2025), Bioinformatics and Intelligent Information Processing 2025 (BIIP 2025), The 22nd CJK Bioinformatics Conference.
Updated information for your group’s posting on the ISCB website, including current initiatives, educational activities, conferences, funding or fellowship opportunities, and other relevant updates.
1.The press release of iscbAI’25 is published on ISCB website.
2.ISCB-China Workshop is published at ISMB&ECCB website.
Contributions to ISCB, such as encouraging members to join ISCB, promoting ISCB activities, providing feedback on current initiatives, and suggesting new programs that align with our shared mission.
1.By the end of 2025, we had successfully attracted 241 new registrations, including 230 professional members — many of whom are leading academic experts in China with a strong passion for computational biology research and global exchange and collaboration.
2.Promoting ISMB&ECCB, GIW ASIA, RECOMB, PSB on ISCB-China Website for maximum outreach and attaction.
3.Propose collaborations for iscbAI’26.
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
ISCB-China will plan a series of activities that focusing on connecting the bioinformatics community with the global community, and also to connect the academic community with the industry that generate data, provide facilities and apply computational biology for medical, agriculture and other fields. The planning conferences are including (not limited to): ISCB-China workshop in virtual cells, iscbAI'26, ISCB-China Annual Meeting
Last Updated 2026-01-31 17:25:58
Contact
Yoshihiro Yamanishi
Nagoya University
Department of Complex Systems Science, Graduate School of Informatics
Chikusa
Nagoya 464-8601
Japan
Phone: +81527895638
yoshihiro.yamanishi@gmail.com
Alternative Email:
yamanishi@i.nagoya-u.ac.jp
Geographical Area Included
Japan
Leadership Structure
President:
Michiaki Hamada
(Term April 2025- March 2027)
Vice President:
Takeshi Obayashi
(Term April 2025- March 2027)
Board of Directors:
Masahito Ohue (School of Computing, Science Tokyo)
Shinya Oki (Center for Resource Science and Engineering, Kumamoto University)
Kota Kasahara (Shionogi & Co., Ltd.)
Risa K Kawaguchi (Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo / Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Kyoto University)
Susumu Goto (Research Organization of Information and Systems)
Reiji Teramoto (Chugai Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd.)
Yukako Tosato (College of Information Science and Engineering, Ritsumeikan University)
Yuko Makita (Faculty of Engineering, Maebashi Institute of Technology)
Hirotaka Matsumoto (School of Information and Data Sciences, Nagasaki University)
Sayaka Mizutani (School of Life Science and Technology, Science)
(Term 2025/04/01 - 2026/03/31)
Takeshi Obayashi (Graduate School of Information Sciences, Tohoku University)
Soichi Ogishima (The Advanced Research Center for Innovations in Next-Generation Medicine, Tohoku University)
Junna Kawasaki (Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba University)
Yutaka Saito (Graduate School of Frontier Engineering, Kitasato University)
Yasubumi Sakakibara (Department of Biosciences and Informatics, Keio University)
Tsuyoshi Shirai (Nagahama Institute of Bio-Science and Technology)
Yayoi Natsume (National Institute of Biomedical Innovation, Health and Nutrition)
Michiaki Hamada (Faculty of Science and Engineering, , Waseda University)
Tsukasa Fukunaga (Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, Waseda University)
Motomu Matsui (Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University)
(Term 2024/04/01 - 2026/03/31)
Election Process
The members of Board of Directors are elected by the members of JSBi.
The Vice President is elected by the members of Board of Directors.
The Vice President becomes the President in the next term.
Election Frequency
The term of office for President, Vice President, and the Board Members is two years.
Member Benefits
JSBi currently has approximately 1240 individual members and 21 corporate members.
The members are entitled to the following benefits:
Reduced registration fee at the annual conferences.
Free admission to JSBi SIG meetings.
Right to use the JSBi mailing list and website for academic and commercial announcements.
Goals
The Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi) was founded in 1999 for promoting researches and educational activities on bioinformatics as well as for promoting the relevant technologies and industries in Japan. JSBi also enhances international collaborations as an affiliated regional group of ISCB (International Society for Computational Biology) and a member of AASBi (Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics). In addition, JSBi played a key role in holding the longest running international bioinformatics conference, International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW, former Genome Informatics Workshop), which originated in Japan.
Activities
• JSBi annual meeting
• JSBi newsletter (2 issues per year)
• JSBi Bioinformatics Review
• Encyclopedia of bioinformatics (published in 2006)
• Bioinformatics introduction textbook
• Bioinformatics engineer examination
• Bioinformatics education curriculum
• Workshops and regional meetings
• Establishment of ISCB SC RSG-Japan
• As a founding member of the Association of Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi), JSBi supports international bioinformatics meetings in the years they are held in Japan.
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
The most important event of JSBi is the General Meeting, which is held once a year and to which all the members are requested to participate. Until 2006, the General Meeting had been held as a part of an international meeting, GIW (International Conference on Genome Informatics, former Genome Informatics Workshop). Since GIW becomes an official meeting of AASBi from 2007, the General Meetings are held independently in Japan.
Holding Workshops and Regional Working Groups, presenting Oxford Journals-JSBi Prize, and publishing News Letters and Bioinformatics Reviews are also main activities of JSBi. Other activities include managing Bioinformatics Engineer Examination, developing a standard curriculum for bioinformatics education in universities and graduate schools, and editing the encyclopedia of bioinformatics and bioinformatics introduction textbook (in Japanese). The encyclopedia, written by hundreds of JSBi members and researchers in related areas, was published by Kyoritsu Shuppan. Co. Ltd
Holding meetings of ISCB SC RSG-Japan to promote the interactions of young researchers on bioinformatics in Japan and encouraging young researchers to participate in ISCB-affiliated international conferences (such as ISMB)
Last Updated 2026-01-31 01:29:05
Contact
President : Doheon LEE, Ph.D., Professor
Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)
E-mail: dhlee@kaist.ac.kr
General Secretary : Tae-Min Kim, Ph,D., Professor
Catholic University of Korea
E-mail: tmkim@catholic.ac.kr
KSBi Office : ksbi.office@gmail.com
Tel +82-2-2135-2578
Geographical Area Included
Korea
Leadership Structure
President
Vice President
Auditor
Advisor
Special Advisory
Steering committee : General affairs, Planning affairs, Program affairs, Publication affairs, Industrial Collaboration affairs, Publicity affairs
Election Process
Applying candidates for all members
-> Selection of candidates through deliberation of the Presidential selection committee
-> Election of the President on the board
-> Approval at the General meeting
Election Frequency
2 year
Member Benefits
Offering discount registration fee for the BIOINFO & BIML
Goals
Goal/mission:
• Promotion of bioinformatics research and development in Korea
• Sponsoring bioinformatics-related academic events such as symposia, workshops, discussion forums, etc in Korea
• Participation in basic and advanced bioinformatics education in Korea
• Supporting technological and industrial development in the area of bioinformatics in Korea
Brief history:
In Oct., 1998, a group of experts in the areas of life science and bioinformatics recognizing the importance of bioinformatics in the coming decades founded KSBi. Since then, experts from non-biology areas such as computer science, mathematics and so on joined it.
Activities
• The 6th BIML(Bioinformatics and Machine Learning) :
Training workshop for researchers, academics, and industrial practitioners.
Jan. 30th~Feb. 1st, 2020.
number of participant : 350
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• APBC-BIOINFO 2020
The joint conference, APBC(Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference)-BIOINFO 2020 is going to be held in Aug. 18th~20th.
• The 7th BIML workshop
The BIML workshop is planning on all the core and new topics in bioinformatics and computational genomics.
Last Updated 2024-12-13 09:44:33