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The International Society for Computational Biology 10Th Anniversary Lawrence Hunter, Russ B Message from ISCB The International Society for Computational Biology 10th Anniversary Lawrence Hunter, Russ B. Altman, Philip E. Bourne* Introduction training programs in bioinformatics or significant part of the original computational biology. By 1996, motivation for founding the Society PLoS Computational Biology is the however, high throughput molecular was to provide a stable financial home official journal of the International biology and the attendant need for for the ISMB conference. The first few Society for Computational Biology informatics had clearly arrived. In conferences were sufficiently successful (ISCB), a partnership that was formed addition to the founding of ISCB, 1996 to create a financial nest egg that was during the Journal’s conception in saw the sequencing of the first genome used each year to start the process of 2005. With ISCB being the only of a free-living organism (yeast) and planning and executing the next year’s international body representing Affymetrix’s release of its first meeting. Initially, relatively modest computational biologists, it made commercial DNA chip. checks were cut and sent from one perfect sense for PLoS Computational The hot topics in bioinformatics organizer to another informally. As the Biology to be closely affiliated. The circa 1996, at least as reflected by the size of these checks increased, the Society had to take more of a chance conference on Intelligent Systems for organizers (and their home than similar societies, choosing to step Molecular Biology (ISMB) at institutions) became increasingly away from an existing financially Washington University in St. Louis, uncomfortable exchanging them beneficial subscription journal to align included issues which have largely been informally, and decided that they with an open access publication as a solved (such as gene finding or needed an organization—thus, ISCB. matter of principle. To our knowledge, sequence assembly), as well as ones The basic rules and goals for ISCB ISCB was the first major international which have proven richer than all were hashed out in an unforgettable scientific society to do so. expectations (such as ontological late-night dinner on the beaches of Now, as PLoS Computational Biology foundations for knowledge models). Halkidiki, Greece, at ISMB ’97. Not reaches its two-year mark, ISCB Although not yet as global as the surprisingly, the idea of an simultaneously celebrates its tenth current Society, attendees in 1996 organization brought much more than anniversary, having formed officially came from Canada, Denmark, the convenience of a bank account for on June 18, 1997. We early presidents Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, the conferences. There were formative of ISCB reflect on the state of and the United States. ISMB ’96 discussions about advocacy, education, computational biology ten years ago, attendees also included all of the travel support, and other activities. how far we have come since, and what presidents of ISCB so far. However, the role of conferences thought-provoking future challenges By the time the Society was founded, remained central. It was clear that the might lie ahead with regard to bioinformatics was gaining notice in ISMB meeting was the primary innovations in publishing technologies. the broader scientific community. In ‘‘product’’ of the new society. That June of 1996, Science published a ‘‘News dinner also paved the way for the The State of Computational and Comment’’ piece entitled ‘‘Hot Biology at the Founding of ISCB Property: Biologists Who Compute’’ It’s hard to imagine how much the suggesting that competition among drug companies and other industrial computational bioscience world has Citation: Hunter L, Altman RB, Bourne PE (2007) The changed in just ten years. In 1996, there concerns for the relatively few people International Society for Computational Biology 10th skilled in bioinformatics was so intense anniversary. PLoS Comput Biol 3(6): e135. doi:10. was no journal that had the word 1371/journal.pcbi.0030135 ‘‘bioinformatics’’ in its name, GenBank that universities would not be able to attract enough faculty to teach the field Copyright: Ó 2007 Hunter et al. This is an open- contained fewer than 200,000 DNA access article distributed under the terms of the sequences (core genomic DNA/RNA, to new students. While perhaps not Creative Commons Attribution License, which quite as dire as all that, in 1996 there permits unrestricted use, distribution, and excluding mitochondria, ESTs, etc.), reproduction in any medium, provided the original and the National Institutes of Health were fewer than half a dozen training author and source are credited. programs that offered a Ph.D. in (NIH) had yet to fund any institutional Lawrence Hunter is the Founder of ISCB, and he bioinformatics or computational served as President from 1997 to 2000. Russ B. biology. Altman served as ISCB President from 2000 to 2001. Philip E. Bourne served as ISCB President from 2002 to 2003, and is currently Editor in Chief of PLoS ISCB Conferences: Join the Computational Biology. Leaders in Your Field * To whom correspondence should be addressed. E- mail: [email protected]. (General queries about More than most scientific societies, ISCB should be directed to B. J. Morrison McKay at ISCB is closely tied to its conferences. A [email protected].) PLoS Computational Biology | www.ploscompbiol.org0950 June 2007 | Volume 3 | Issue 6 | e135 current relationship between ISCB and to build a nest egg. Even when times are Society, its conference, and PLoS two of the other premier meetings in hard, meetings provide a critical Computational Biology are an important computational biology: Research in lifeline for essential scientific strength for all of us, and invite you to Computational Molecular Biology communication and are difficult for ISMB/ECCB 2007 in Vienna to see this (RECOMB) and the Pacific Symposium practicing scientists to skip. A high- synergy first hand. on Biocomputing (PSB), many of whose quality meeting is much more likely to organizers were present on that Greek yield value to the individual scientist in ISCB and PLoS Computational beach. terms of ideas, scouting the Biology: Leaders in Open Access In subsequent years, the Society has competition, and offering collaborative Publishing formed alliances with other opportunities than a personal journal conferences as well, most notably the subscription. ISCB has changed a great deal in the European Conference on ISCB’s conference strategy also aims ten years since it began—but so has Computational Biology (ECCB) and the at creating a truly global community scientific publishing. Societies and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network’s for bioinformatics and computational journals are often intimately linked, as International Conference on biology. ISCB conference venues have the American Chemical Society is with Bioinformatics (InCoB). When ISMB is included not only North American and the Journal of the American Chemical held in Europe, as it will be this European sites, but also Hawaii, Society, although of course there are summer, ISMB and ECCB are held Australia, Japan, and, most recently, both societies and journals without jointly. More recently, ISCB has begun Brazil. The policies of moving the such links. The current relationship organizing smaller regional or specialty conference around the world in a between ISCB and the Public Library of meetings such as the Rocky Mountain regular, judicious manner have allowed Science through PLoS Computational Bioinformatics Conference. the field to promote its importance and Biology falls somewhere in the middle. Merging the conference cultures of vitality in multiple venues. There is Both ISCB and PLoS exist as separate molecular biology (where conferences sometimes a cost in terms of total organizations, and they formed a provide an unpublished way to share attendance figures. These must partnership through a letter of recent research results and speakers certainly be strategically considered in agreement. In reality, this means each are largely invited) and computer light of our financial dependence on disseminating the work done by the science (where conferences are the meetings, but the benefits of engaging other. It would be easy to stop there, primary publication venue for new new regions and new groups of but the relationship is much more than results, and speaking slots are based on scientists are quite significant. that. With such a partnership, the peer-reviewed submissions) has not Finally, the ISCB conferences play an Journal becomes a collective voice for always been easy. Today’s meetings are important role with respect to the scientific community it represents. a remarkable blend that offers a publication. More than any other PLoS Computational Biology should snapshot of the latest, most important biological meeting, ISCB conference represent the best work and interests of results, is published in Medline- proceedings are an important part of ISCB members. indexed proceedings, and balances the archival literature in The need for a relationship between invited and reviewed talks. bioinformatics and computational ISCB and journals was recognized early. This really makes perfect sense— biology. These proceedings are peer- In 1998, Russ Altman forged a bioinformatics and computational reviewed at a level rivaling some relationship with Oxford University biology are fundamentally journals, and some are indexed in Press (OUP), establishing the journal collaborative, interdisciplinary fields Medline and PubMed. References
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