Abstract
This short report summarises the scientific content and activities of a student-led event, the 1st student symposium by the UK Regional Student Group of the International Society for Computational Biology. The event took place on the 8th of October 2014.
Highlights
The United Kingdom Regional Student Group (RSG UK) of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a part of a global network of students and early stage post-doctoral researchers
The group was formed in December 2013, with a vision to build, strengthen and enhance a network among young computational biologists working and studying in the United Kingdom
The initiative of forming RSG UK and hosting the symposium was highly appreciated among peers, delegates and sponsors
Summary
The United Kingdom Regional Student Group (RSG UK) of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is a part of a global network of students and early stage post-doctoral researchers. As part of the industrial partner talk, Dr Jonathan Mullins, from Moleculomics Ltd., gave a short presentation on generating high-value genome-scale molecular information to increase and improve knowledge of interactions between organisms and chemical compounds using the tools and services developed by Moleculomics Ltd. The RSG UK team received more than 20 abstracts from students who wished to present their work at the symposium. The second keynote speech by Dr Alex Bateman underlined the impacts of biological databases in modern-day computational biology research and highlighted the importance of the role of biocurators in biological studies. Sam Nicholls from the Aberystwyth University received the best oral presentation award for his work titled “Goldilocks: Locating genomic regions that are ‘just right’”. The oral and poster presentation awards were generously sponsored by the graduate research center of the University of South Wales, UK. In addition to the aforementioned awards, HPC Wales chose Karen Sinu Ting’s work on “Concatabominations: identifying unstable taxa in morphological and phylogenomic supertrees using Safe Taxonomic Reduction” that enables Karen to get exclusive supercomputing access and support from the HPC Wales facility
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