Meeting report on RECOMB 2013 (the 17th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology)

Abstract

RECOMB 2013 was successfully held in Tsinghua University, Beijing, China on April 7–10, 2013, hosted by the Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology, Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology (TNLIST). A total of about 500 professionals from both academia and industry from 29 countries and regions attended the conference and its RECOMB-Seq satellite workshop after the main conference. The RECOMB conference series, with the full name of the Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, was started in 1997 by Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner and Michael Waterman. The conference aims at bringing together the computational, mathematical, statistical, and biological sciences, and bringing together researchers, professionals, students and industrial practitioners from all over the world for interaction and exchange of new developments in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. This year’s conference features 6 keynote talks, and presentations of peer-reviewed high-quality research papers, selected highlight talks of recently published high-profile works, and poster presentations on the latest research progress. Figure 1 provides some sample snapshots of the conference.