Conference: Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), January 3-6, 1996, in Hawaii

首届太平洋生物计算研讨会(PSB-1)将于1996年1月3-6日在夏威夷举行。PSB-1将汇集来自美国、亚太地区国家、欧洲和世界其他地区的顶尖研究人员和教育工作者，交流研究成果、教学经验，并解决计算生物学各个方面的公开问题。在夏威夷国际系统科学会议(HICSS)上，PSB-1将取代和扩展过去三年的生物技术计算轨道，将提供一个论坛，用于介绍和讨论几乎所有计算生物学领域，特别是今年在以下领域的重点：分子进化、交互式分子可视化、基因组信息学和数据库、蛋白质结构分析和预测、种群建模、量子/经典杂交方法、生物控制系统、蛋白质设计、互联网工具和生物计算教育。PSB-1是一次真正的跨学科会议，强调计算机科学和生物学中的关键和困难领域，深入涵盖了进化推理、蛋白质生物物理学、高级数据表示和高性能计算等领域。HICSS前几年的生物技术计算轨道吸引了来自20多个国家的研究人员。PSB-1会议公告的初步反馈表明，参加新会议的人将同样多样化。没有其他计算生物学会议有更大的国际参与度。据我们所知，PSB的教育研讨会是有史以来第一次有组织的计算生物学教学会议。课程和课程开发正处于形成阶段。在这个新兴而关键的领域，许多教师都面临着类似的问题，但缺乏出版材料，也没有广泛可用的指导方针。在这个时候，一个关于教育问题的论坛将大大促进这一领域的教学。组委会申请资金是为了：(I)吸引高素质的教育工作者和研究人员；(Ii)吸引最近参与计算生物学课程和课程开发的教育工作者和研究人员；(Iii)资助研究生、博士后研究员、年轻教员、女性或少数族裔，并优先考虑那些将进行口头报告或展示海报的人。

The first Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB-1) will be held January 3-6, 1996, in Hawaii. PSB-1 will bring together top researchers and educators, from the US, Asian Pacific nations, Europe and throughout the rest of the world, to exchange research results, teaching experiences and to address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. Replacing and extending the last three years of the Biotechnology Computing Track at the Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), PSB-1 will provide a forum for presentation and discussion on virtually all areas of computational biology with special emphasis this year in the following areas: molecular evolution, interactive molecular visualization, genome informatics and databases, protein structure analysis and prediction, population modeling, quantum/classical hybrid methods, biological control systems, protein design, internet tools and biocomputing education. PSB-1 is a genuinely interdisciplinary meeting, emphasizing the critical and difficult areas in both computer science and biology, with in-depth coverage of such areas as evolutionary inference, protein biophysics, advanced data representations, and high performance computing. The Biotechnology Computing Track of HICSS in previous years attracted researchers from more than 20 countries. Initial feedback from PSB-1 conference announcements suggest that participation at the new meeting will be just as diverse. No other computational biology meeting has greater international participation. To our knowledge, PSB's educational workshop is the first ever organized meeting on the teaching of computational biology. Course and curriculum development are at their formative stages. Many faculty are facing similar problems in this emerging and crucial area, yet there is a lack of published materials and no widely available gu idelines. A forum on educational issues at this time will significantly advance instruction in this field. The organizing committee is requesting funding in order to: (i) attract high caliber educators and researchers; (ii) attract educators and researchers who have recently become involved in course and curriculum development in computational biology; and (iii) fund graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, young faculty, and women or minorities, with preference shown to those who will be giving oral presentations or displaying posters.