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Friday, 10 September 2010
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.
Announcements
- Vladimir Brusic (re-elected
- Haruki Nakamura (re-elected)
- Shoba Ranganathan (re-elected President)
- Meena Sakharkar (re-elected)
- Amandeep Sidhu (re-elected)
- Antonius Suwanto (re-elected; elected Secretary)
- Daniel Man-yeun Sze (re-elected)
- Martti Tapani Tammi (re-elected)
- Ueng-Cheng Yang (re-elected Vice-President)
- H.A. Nagarajaram (re-elected)
- Gloria Despacio-Reyes (re-elected)
- Bruno Gaeta
- Ge GAO
- Zeti Hussein
- Angela Jean (Youth Affairs Chairperson)
- P Kangueane
- Prashanth Suravajhala
- Victor Tong (elected Treasurer)
- Hsu Wen-lian
APBioNet AGM’08 and Elections The nominations for APBioNet election of the new ExCo members for 2009-2010 to election08@apbionet.org including full name and email address of your nominee, permission from the nominee to run for election, CV of your nominee for posting online have closed on 14 October 2008. Voting online will take place from 15th October to 21st October, with final votes deposited physically during the APBioNet Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2008. The AGM 2008 of APBioNet was held on 22nd October 2008 during the lunch break of the InCoB 2008 conference at Taipei, Taiwan, where the final vote was be counted and the new ExCo members taken office. Click here to see Election’08 Webpage for list of candidates. The following have been elected into office for 2008-2011.
- Terry Gaasterland, UCSD
- Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo
- Vladimir Brusic, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School
- Shoba Ranganathan, Macquarie University
7th International Conference on Bioinformatics Keynote Speakers: This year 2008, InCoB will be held in conjunction with the BIT2008 Conference, the Bioinformatics and Systems Biology in Taiwan (BIT 2008) conference from Oct. 20 to 22, 2008. In addition, InCoB 2008 will be held back-to-back with the Federation of Asian and Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) workshops (Bioinformatics Education Workshop, Oct 23) and conference (Oct. 24 to 25, 2008). More than 100 papers and posters have been submit of which 24 have been accepted for BMC Bioinformatics and Oral Presentation sessions, 10 for Bioinformation journal, the rest as posters and tutorials and workshops. Please visit the website http://incob.binfo.org.tw/ or http://incob.apbionet.org/.
InCoB’08, 20-23 October 2008, Taipei
InCoB 2007 As the flagship conference of the APBioNet, the Sixth InCoB Conference (InCoB 2007) will be held in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology from 27th to 31st August 2007.
2EABN 2007 Held from 13 to 14th June 2007, the Second Meeting of the East Asia Bioinformation Network (2EABN) 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).
1WWWFG website endorsed 1WWWFG Website is 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.
ISMB/ECCB 2007 ISMB/ECCB 2007 to be held July 21-25, 2007 in Vienna, Austria
Press Releases
InCoB 2008 Taipei (14th October 2008)
The APBioNet flagship event, the International Conference on Bioinformatics 2008 (InCoB’08) will be held in Taipei, Taiwan at the National Yang Ming University from 20th to 23th October 2008. Please register for the conference at the InCoB08 website http://incob.binfo.org.tw/. Keynote speakers, guest speakers, oral presentations, tutorials and workshop on education… these are some of the highlights of this year’s InCoB.
There is also a free Workshop on Education in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (WEBCB) sponsored by FAOBMB and IUBMB on the afternoon of the 23rd October. The APBioNet Annual General Meeting will also be held on 22nd October during lunch time to vote in the incoming ExCo for 2008-2010.
ISCB Board Directorship (Released end July 2008)
APBioNet is pleased to announce the election of Dr Jong Bhak as a new Board of Director of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). He joins Tan Tin Wee (2nd term) and Hannah Xue (1st term) as the only Asians on the board of ISCB. Congratulations from APBioNet!
2003 Press Releases
January 28, 2003
January 29, 2003
2002 Press Releases
In the News
- S* Alliance announces that third online bioinformatics course includes APBioNet-coordinated awards for top distinction students
Press Release from S-Star Alliance. February 8, 2003
- APBioNet garners a mention by editor of Bioinformatics Journal, Chris Sander
BioInformatics Vol 1 Number 19 Page 1, January 19, 2003