News Releases

• 6th International Conference on Bioinformatics InCoB 2007
  • InCoB07 Website
  • As the flagship conference of the APBioNet, the Sixth InCoB Conference will be held in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 27th to 31st August 2007.
  • It overlaps with the IUBMB-FAOBMB-APBioNet Bioinformatics Training Workshop in Hanoi, Viet Nam from 19th to 31st August 2007. Participants in VietNam will be able to watch the InCoB Conference plenaries from Hanoi by videocasting.
  • A Post-conference workshop will be held in Nansha, Guangzhou Province, PR China from 30th to 31st August 2007.
  • The APBioNet Annual General Meeting will traditionally be held during InCoB07, on 28th August 2007.

• 2nd East Asia Bioinformation Network meeting (2EABN) 2007
  • 2nd EABN Website
  • Held from 13 to 14th June 2007, the Second Meeting of the East Asia Bioinformation Network will be hosted by the BIOTEC, the National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology of the NSTDA of Thailand and sponsored by Korean Bioinformation Center (KOBIC).
  • This meeting will focus on the strategic planning of the bioinformation infrastructure of Asia bioinformatics, bioinformation and computational biology in terms of education, training, awareness, shared resources, collaboration and cooperation in research.
  • Key delegates from 10 ASEAN nations will meet with delegates from Korea, Japan and China and other observers from other countries for this strategic planning meeting.

• 1st World Wide Work Flow Grid Workshop, June 5-7, 2007, Singapore
  
  • 1WWWFG Website sponsored and endorsed by APBioNet
  • Historically, in 2002, APBioNet was involved in grid and workflow interoperability: APBioGrid. This initiative was reported in BioInform. Nascent concepts of a BioWorldWideWorkFlow was set up in 2003 bioWWWF. We have seen the continuing good work of Professor A Konagaya in forging the LSGrid, with the forthcoming 4th conference in Glasgow Sep 2007, back to back with UK eScience All Hands Meeting in Nottingham. Today, we see the need for a triple convergence of Workflow, Grid and Semantic Web which is the theme of this 1st World Wide Work Flow Grid workshop (1WWWFG).

• ISMB/ECCB 2007, July 21-25, 2007, Vienna, Austria
  
  • www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2007
  • www.ismb2007.org
  • www.eccb2007.org

• InCoB2006, Delhi, India from 18-20 Dec 2006
  
  • http://www.incob2006.in/
    More than a thousand registrants, 750 on the opening plenary, 400 posters
    20 Papers published in BMC Bioinformatics (Impact Factor 4.96) and others in J BioScience
    
  • APBioNet Annual General Meeting
  • Call for Papers Closed:
    APBioNet-BMC Bioinformatics Joint Conference Issue
    APBioNet is teaming up with BMC Bioinformatics to select the best papers from InCoB2006 to be published in a special conference issue of BMC Bioinformatics (Impact Factor 4.96 at Aug 2006).

• 3rd International Life Science Grid Workshop LSGrid2006
  Website
  13-14 October 2006, RIKEN Hall, Yokohama, Japan.
  REGISTRATION FREE! Sponsored by RIKEN and IPAB.

• APBioNet Workshop on 16 May 2006 in the GridAsia2006 conferences, Singapore.
  Workshop Program
  Registration for GridAsia2006 is Free! Also featuring Manuel Peitsch, "Grid Computing in Drug Discovery".

• APBioNet's elections 2005/2006 were completed successfully on 31st Aug 2005. Welcome to all Office Bearers
  
  • Announcement and Election Procedure
  • Nominations and Candidates as at 21st July 2005

• InCoB 2005 in Busan, Korea from 22-24 Sep 2005.
  Co-location with AASBi and KSBI conferences as part of the BIOINFO-2005 Conference.
  Website http://biosoft.kaist.ac.kr/bioinfo2005/

• LSGrid2005 in Biopolis, Singapore from 5-6 May 2005
  APBioNet co-organises the 2nd International Life Science Grid Workshop in Singapore.
  Website http://www.lsgrid.org/2005

• APBioNet announces nominations open for the first election of ExCo Office Bearers for appointment by January 2005 (postponed). APBioNet Annual General Meeting to be held on 6 Sep 2004 at the InCoB 2004 conference, Room NZ1, Aotea Centre, Auckland New Zealand to discuss the Election Process,APBioNet structure, activities, constitution and other matters.
  
  • Announcement
  • Nominations Please send your nominations now to sec04@apbionet.org
    

• APBC2005
  The Third Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Conference Singapore,
  17-21 January 2005 | APBC WebSite |

• ASEAN-China Bioinformatics Workshop, Center for Bioinformatics, Peking University
  17-23 October 2004.
  Co-organised by ASEAN Subcommittee on Biotechnology and APBioNet.

• 3rd InCOB International Conference on Bioinformatics
  5-8th September 2004
  Aotea Centre, Auckland, New Zealand
  www.incob.org

• Owing to tremendous amount of spamming, APBioNet addresses such as sec@apbionet.org and mailing list addresses have been changed to append 04 to each mailing list address. Please refer to contact.shtml or list.shtml for more information.

• InCoB 2003 scheduled for 8-10 September 2003 in Penang, Malaysia announces call for participation
  CFP Apr 10, 2003 | Word | PDF |

• APBioNet receiving CAD 44.8K from the International Development Research Centre's Pan Asia Networking Programme
  Press Release Jan 29, 2003 | HTML |

• APBioNet signs umbrella MoU with the State Government of Andhra Pradesh (India) to collaborate on research and training in Bioinformatics.
  Joint Press Release Dec 27, 2002. | PDF | HTML |
  MoU Dec 27, 2002. | PDF | HTML |
  
  
• APBioNet Vice President Shoba Ranganathan is elected to the ISCB Board of Directors for the 2002-2005 term Press Release Aug 6, 2002. | HTML |
  
  
• Cray Inc., LION Bioscience, KOOPrime and APBioNet engineers provide
  a recipe for bioinformatics: Working towards an integrated data-compute-workflow platform. June 20, 2002
  
  • Press Release | HTML |
  
  
• APBioNet achieves rough consensus to endorse and adopt the
  InCOB 2002 resolutions as the "APBioNet Bangkok Resolutions". May 20, 2002
  
  • Resolution |HTML|
  • Press Release |HTML|
  
  
• APBioNet now a regional affiliate of the
  International Society for Computational Biology ISCB.
  APBioNet, Asia's Largest Bioinformatics Organization, Signs Affiliation Agreement with the ISCB
  Press Release May 10, 2002: | Text | HTML | Doc | PDF |
  
  
• Latest Calls for Feedback/Approval: Current papers
  
• Latest Event Announcements: March-December 2003
  

Introducing APBioNet The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) is a non-profit, non-governmental, international organization. It focuses on the promotion of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific Region. Since 1998, its mission has been to pioneer the growth and development of bioinformatics awareness, training, education, infrastructure, resources and research amongst member countries and economies. Its work includes the technical coordination and liaison with other international bodies such as the EMBnet. APBioNet has more than 20 organizational and 300 individual members from over 12 countries in the region, and members include those from industry, academia, research, government, investors and international organisations. APBioNet has coordinated or co-organised more than 20 international and national meetings in cooperation with members in different economies. It is spearheading a number of key bioinformatics initiatives in the region in collaboration with international organisations such as APAN, APEC, S* Alliance and A-IMBN. If you are based in the Asia Pacific region, and are interested in bioinformatics, APBioNet is where the latest action is taking place. Sign up for free individual membership and join right now - membership fees waived!

APBioNet has become an official regional affiliate of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). ISCB is the leading professional society for the new era of computational biology. APBioNet will be able to benefit from this strategic partnership with ISCB.

Updated March 2006; May 2005; Sep, Mar 2004; Mar 2003; Dec; June; May 2002 - ttw