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International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB)

InCoB is a scientific conference on bioinformatics aimed at scientists in the Asia Pacific region. It has been held annually since 2002. Originally organised by coordination between the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (http://www.apbionet.org) and the BIOTEC of Thailand (http://www.biotec.or.th) in 2002, the meeting has since been the flagship conference of the APBioNet, where APBioNet's Annual General Meeting is held.

Scientific Publications

Since 2006, InCoB has been partnering with BMC Bioinformatics (http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcbioinformatics/) to publish a InCoB Special Conference Issue of top papers presented at the conference. In 2007, an additional tie-up with the Bioinformation journal (http://www.bioinformation.net) was established in addition to the BMC Bioinformatics issue.

Technological Placeshifting

Since 2007, InCoB held in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has been placeshifted in an additional location in a developing country venue, namely the VNU, VietNam through the advanced videoconferencing project of APAN (http://www.apan.net) and TEIN2 (http://www.tein2.net).

Satellite Training Workshops

Since 2007, at the VNU site coordinated by the Institute of Biotechnology Hanoi (IBT), InCoB coordinated with the International Union for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists - IUBMB (http://www.iubmb.org) and the Federation of Asian Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists - FAOBMB (http://www.faobmb.org/) and APBioNet to hold a two-week bioinformatics training course with course faculty from Karolinska Institutet, NCBI (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/) and National University of Singapore - NUS (http://www.bic.nus.edu.sg/), supported by the S* Alliance for Bioinformatics Education (http://www.s-star.org) and BioSlax (http://www.bioslax.com), a software development project hosted at NUS as part of an ASEAN SubCommittee on Biotechnology (SCB) project. This collaboration with IUBMB and FAOBMB continues in 2008 with a bioinformatics education workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, where the main meeting of InCoB 2008 will be situated.

Past and Present conferences

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Contact Person

For additional information about collaboration or historical information of InCoB and APBioNet, interested persons are directed to the APBioNet Secretariat (Dr Tan Tin Wee) based in the Bioinformatics Centre (Resources), National University of Singapore, or the Chairperson (Professor Shoba Ranganathan), based in Macquarie University.

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