Abstract
The report summarizes the scientific content of the annual symposium organized by the Student Council of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) held in conjunction with the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Long Beach, California on July 13, 2012.
Highlights
Open AccessHighlights from the Eighth International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium 2012Alexander Goncearenco1*, Priscila Grynberg2, Olga B Botvinnik3, Geoff Macintyre4, Thomas Abeel5,6From Eighth International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium 2012 Long Beach, CA, USA. 13-14 July 2012About the Student Council and the symposium The Student Council (SC) is part of ISCB and is led by students and postdocs
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On Sunday, the Student Council hosted a social event with free appetizers and fostered social ties with a trivia quiz titled “CLUSTER Your Talent” which challenged delegates’ knowledge of popular culture as well as their expertise in the area of computational biology
Summary
Highlights from the Eighth International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium 2012. The goal of our activities at ISMB is to help fellow students build their career in computational biology We do this by creating opportunities to meet peers from all over the world, promote the exchange of ideas and provide networking opportunities. Bemis et al [12] presented statistic-based signal processing and feature selection methods for desorption electrospray ionization (DESI) imaging mass spectrometry experiments Their method performs a better spatial segmentation and improves the mapping between morphological and functional structures. Mangul et al [15] presented a transcript reconstruction tool based on integer programming, which improves accuracy on previous methods that did not take into account the fragment length distribution Award winners This year, four awards where giving to the best student presenters of the day, two for oral presentations and two for poster presentations. Caballero and Gracia Bonilla, who presented the tracking of antiviral responses after infection with Lassa virus [17]
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