DOE Grant for Travel - ISMB 2002, Edmont, Canada.

The Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference is the oldest and largest conference that specifically addresses bioinformatics and computational biology, i.e. interdisciplinary research that falls between computer science and biology, ISMB is distinguished from many other conferences in computational biology or artificial intelligence by an insistence that the researchers work with real molecular biology data, not theoretical examples; and from many other biological conferences by providing a forum for technical advances as they occur, which otherwise may be shunned until a firm experimental result is published. The resulting intellectual richness and cross-disciplinary diversity provides an important opportunity for both students and senior researchers. ISMB has become the premier conference series in this field with refereed, published proceedings, establishing an infrastructure to promote the growing body of research. ISMB comprises five main types of presentations: tutorials, plenary presentations, poster presentations, topically focused satellite meetings and software demonstrations. These tutorials and fellows contribute to the development of human resources by allowing students and post-doctoral fellows to reach a state-of-the-art level rapidly, and to begin making contributions to the field. At ISMB 2002, 15 tutorials were held, 50 papers were presented, 498 posters were presented, 6 special interest group meetings here held,more » and 20 software demonstrations (both non-for-profit and corporate) were presented.« less