Abstract
InCoB, one of the largest annual bioinformatics conferences in the Asia-Pacific region since its launch in 2002, returned to New Delhi, India after 12 years, with a conference attendance of 314 delegates. The 2018 conference had sessions on Big Data and Algorithms, Next Generation Sequencing and Omics Science, Structure, Function and Interactions, Disease and Drug Discovery and Plant and Agricultural Bioinformatics. The conference also featured an industry track as well as panel discussions on Women in Bioinformatics and Democratization vs. Quality control in academic publishing. Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Interaction & Networking Society (APbians) was launched as an APBionet Special Interest Group. Of the 52 oral presentations made, 22 were accepted in supplemental issues of BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics or BMC Medical Genomics and are briefly reviewed here. Next year’s InCoB will be held in Jakarta, Indonesia from September 10–12, 2019.
Highlights
Open AccessAPBioNet's annual International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) returns to India in 2018Shandar Ahmad1, Michael M
The AGM was concluded with the announcement of election results for the Executive Committee (ExCo), term 2018–2020, by the returning officer
The list of elected ExCo members and office bearers is available at the APBioNet website [2]
Summary
Open AccessAPBioNet's annual International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) returns to India in 2018Shandar Ahmad1, Michael M. Introduction The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) was held for the first time in New Delhi, India in 2006 and returned in September 26–28, 2018 [1], with over 310 delegates. Fifteen keynote and invited talks addressed the current advances in genomics, transcriptomics, systems biology, protein structure and interactions, drug discovery, oncology and precision medicine.
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