Contact
Dr. Javier De Las Rivas
Bioinformatics and Functional Genomics Group
Cancer Research Center (CiC-IBMCC, CSIC/USAL)
Campus Miguel de Unamuno s/n
E37007 - Salamanca - SPAIN
tel: 34 923 294819
jrivas@usal.es
Geographical Area Included
IberoAmerica (22 countries): Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Spain, Uruguay, Venezuela
Leadership Structure
• Executive Board (4 members: President, VicePresident, Secretary, Treasurer)
• Delegates for each country (at present 12 members)
• Members of different Committees:
- Admissions and Membership Committee
- Education and Training Committee
- Outreach Committee
- Scientific Collaboration Committee
- Infrastructure Committee
- Foreign Relations Committee
- Students Committee
Election Process
Selection of Leaders: Elections are held every four years among members and can be followed by a four-year extension. Due to the recent Covid pandemic, the current Society's leaders have remained in office for longer periods. Furthermore, due to post pandemic effects, our Executive Board has remained unchanged for the past years to maintain the Society's administrative work and the activities in Latin America. Currently, due to the fact that our Society was founded in Mexico, we are in the process of re-associating with the goal of establishing an agreement with the Red Mexicana de Bioinformática (www.redmexicanadebioinformatica.org) to better manage our members and activities.
See our Estatutos at: wp.soibio.org/en/ComiteDirectivo.
Election Frequency
Every 4 years (the current Executive Board has been 4+4 years with the extension explained in the previous section).
Member Benefits
Membership benefits: 7 good REASONS
1.- SoIBio is an International scientific and professional Society that promotes BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY in the large region of IberoAmerica, that includes 22 COUNTRIES: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Republica Dominicana, Uruguay, Venezuela, plus Spain and Portugal.
2.- If you are member of SoIBio you will have the opportunity to participate in the ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE of the Society, organized each year in a different country; and you will enjoy the benefit of a special reduction on the registration fees (of about 20-25%) as a member of SoIBio.
3.- If you are member of SoIBio you will have the opportunity to participate in multiple INTERNATIONAL COURSES promoted by SoIBio with a special reduction on the registration to the courses (of about 20-25%) as a member of SoIBio. As an example of this benefit see the courses organized in México in 2017: http://congresos.nnb.unam.mx/TIB2017/
4.- If you are member of SoIBio you will have the opportunity to interact and participate in International SCIENTIFIC EXCHANGE Programms promoted by SoIBio together with different national institutions and international organizations, like for example ISCB or GOBLET.
5.- If you are member of SoIBio you can participate in the development and promotion of BIOINFORMATICS & COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY in your country, with the added the value of interacting at INTERNATIONAL level with other scientists, academics and professionals of IberoAmerica, that are also working in this field. In this way you will be joining an active community in a research area really new and promising that is critical for the current development of Biological and Biomedical Sciences in our countries.
6.- If you are a master or predoctoral STUDENT (or even a Young POSTDOC, < 30 years old) and you want to become a member of SoIBio, you only will have to pay a quite low membership fees (you will enjoy a reduction of about a 60% over the REGULAR Membership).
7.- If you currently are a full MEMBER of another Bioinformatics Society (national within the region or international, like for example: AB3C from Brazil, A2B2C from Argentina, SC2B2 from Colombia or ISCB the international society), you will have a great reduction on your REGULAR Membership fees to SoIBio (50% reduction !!!).
Goals
See: http://soibio.org/
SoIBio (Iberoamerican Society for Bioinformatics) is an international scientific society, founded in 2009 following the previous work and experience of the RIB (Iberoamerican Network for Bioinformatics) which was, from 2002 to 2008, a joint collaborative project of several research groups from Iberoamerica working in the new field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.
SoIBio aims to promote research and development on Bioinformatics in the large international region of Iberoamerica. As such it looks to help either individuals or national societies or groups that want to work in this field, both at academic and professional level. To do so, SoIBio facilitates transnational exchange, collaboration, formation and development for issues and topics related to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. It is also a platform to interact and collaborate with other international societies and networks that work in the same field: European Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet); ELIXIR-EU an intergovernmental organisation that brings together life science resources (databases, software, biocomputation, dataservers, etc) from across Europe; Asian-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet); International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB).
SoIBio is open to all, either from the academic or the professional world, interested in promoting research and development of Bioinformatics in Iberoamerica. To become a member, the only requirements are the support of one or two members of SoIBio and to fulfill the registration in this website. A small fee is asked to academic or professional staff. The registration as a member is free for students and postdoctoral people.
At present SolBio is an Affiliated Regional Group of ISCB (International Society of Computational Biology) and has actively participated in the organization of the last ISCB-LA Meetings (in 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020, 2022 and 2024). SolBio is also a member of GOBLET (Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education & Training).
Activities
• 2009 Puerto Morelos, MEXICO: ("Fundación de SoIBio", joint with EMBnet) Fundation Conference (October 26-29, 2009).
• 2010 Termas de Chillán, CHILE: 1st SoIBio Bioinformatics International Conference (September 26-28, 2010).
• 2011 Florianopolis, BRAZIL: 2nd SoIBio Bioinformatics International Conference (October 12-15, 2011).
• 2012 Santiago, CHILE: First Joint Conference with ISCB-LA 2012, 3rd SoIBio Conference (March 17-21, 2012).
• 2013 Rosario, ARGENTINA: 4th SoIBio Bioinformatics International Conference (October 29-31, 2013).
• 2014 Belo Horizonte, BRAZIL: Joint Conference with ISCB-LA 2014, 5th SoIBio Conference (October 28-30, 2014).
• 2016 Riviera Maya, MEXICO: (IC fully organized by SoIBio, delayed from 2015) 6th SoIBio Conference (April 22-26, 2016).
• 2016 Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA: Joint Conference with ISCB-LA 2016, 7th SoIBio Conference (November 21-23, 2016).
• 2017 Cali, COLOMBIA: 8th SoIBio Bioinformatics International Conference (September 13-15, 2017).
• 2018 Viña del Mar, CHILE: Joint Conference ISCB-LA SoIBio EBMnet 2018, 9th SoIBio Conference (November 5-9, 2018).
• 2019 Montevideo, URUGUAY: 10th International Conference on Bioinformatics #SoIBio+10 (October 28 - November 1, 2019).
• 2020 Virtual Symposium: ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX 2020, Oct 28-29, (run from MEXICO, only online due to COVID-19).
• 2022 Queretaro, MEXICO: ISCB-Latin America SoIBio BioNetMX Joint Conference on Bioinformatics, 12th SoIBio (November 3-7, 2022).
• 2023 Rosario, ARGENTINA: SoIBio & A2B2C + RIABIO, International Conference on Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence applied to Big BioData, 13th SoIBio (30.October-3.November, 2023).
• 2024 Medellin, COLOMBIA: SoIBio + ISCB + CCBCOL, ISCB-Latin America SoIBio CCBCOL International Conference on Bioinformatics 2024, 14th SoIBio (November 12-15, 2024).
• 2025 João Pessoa, Paraíba, BRAZIL: SoIBio joint venture with the Associação Brasileira de Bioinformática e Biologia Computacional (AB3C, https://site.ab3c.org.br/) to participate in the Congresso Brasileiro de Bioinformática 2025 (June 3-6, 2025) (https://www.even3.com.br/xmeeting-2025/).
Activities and Programs That Demonstrate the Advancement of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
• 2026-29: With the support of SoiBio, several research groups from 11 countries in the region have obtained a new Grant from CYTED (www.cyted.org) for a cooperative research Network in Iberoamerica called "RIABIA-pro = Red Iberoamericana de Prospectiva en Inteligencia Artificial para Biociencias y Biotecnología" (526RT0199) (https://www.cyted.org/web_redes.php?id_rede=595). This new Network will contribute to the advancement of bioinformatics and computational biology in Latin America, with a particular focus on using and applying of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the field of Biosciences and Biotechnology.
• 2026: ISCB-Latin America, SoiBio and SPBBC International Conference on Bioinformatics 2026, to be held in LIMA (PERU), from the 9th to the 13th of November 2026 (https://www.iscb.org/latam2026/home). This Conference on Bioinformatics organized by ISCB together with the Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformatica (SoIBio) y la Sociedad Peruana de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (SPBBC) aims to promote scientific and professional exchange in bioinformatics across Latin America. Bioinformatics brings together scientists from different disciplines, such as Biology, Computer Science, Informatics, Genomics, Mathematics, Statistics, Ecology, Medicine, etc, to solve relevant biological questions. This conference will provide a forum for rich interaction and to showcase scientific developments. Importantly, this event will help the Bioinformatics community strengthen interactions within Latin America, a region that has shown great potential in the area. Moreover, scientists with no or very little knowledge on bioinformatics will have the opportunity to learn about the new findings in the development of high-end tools for the analysis of their biological data.
These events will be announced in:
https://www.iscb.org/
https://www.iscb.org/latam2026/home
http://soibio.org/
Last Updated 2026-03-10 11:50:49