Student Travel Sponsorship for Third ACM BCB Conference, 2012

ACM生物信息学、计算生物学和生物医学信息学特别兴趣小组（SIGBioinformatics; http://www.sigbioinformatics.org/）成立于2010年，旨在研究生物和生物医学数据的处理、存储、分析、挖掘和知识管理的理论和实践。ACM SIGBioinformatics的使命是通过刺激相关多学科领域的研究人员、教育工作者和实践者之间的互动，支持生物信息学、计算生物学和生物医学信息学的高级研究、培训和推广。第三届ACM生物信息学与计算生物学会议将于2012年10月在佛罗里达州奥兰多举行。作为ACM SIG生物信息学的旗舰会议，它为跨学科和多学科研究提供了一个重要的论坛，涵盖计算机科学、数学、统计学、生物学、生物信息学和生物医学等学科。该奖项为20名研究生参加会议提供旅费支持。这将允许学生参加会议，研讨会和教程。此外，特别活动，如博士联盟和学生海报会议将专门针对他们。参加生物信息学和计算生物学的主要研究会议是博士研究培训的一个组成部分。这将使他们能够与该学科的主要研究人员进行互动和联系，并有可能与他们合作。此外，它还将为他们提供毕业后在工业、学术界和政府部门全职工作的潜在职业机会。

The ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBioinformatics; http://www.sigbioinformatics.org/) has been instituted in 2010 with the aim of focusing on theory and practice of processing, storing, analyzing, mining and knowledge management of biological and biomedical data. The mission of ACM SIGBioinformatics is to support advanced research, training, and outreach in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics by stimulating interactions among researchers, educators and practitioners from related multi-disciplinary fields. The third ACM Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology will be held in Orlando, Florida in October 2012. As a flagship conference of ACM SIG Bioinformatics, it provides a premier forum for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. This award provides travel support for 20 graduate students to attend the conference. This will allow the students to participate in the conference, workshop and tutorials. Additionally special activities such as a doctoral consortium and student poster session will be specifically targeted for them. Participation in premier research conferences in bioinformatics and computational biology is an integral component of doctoral research-based training. It will allow them to interact and network with and potentially collaborate with leading researchers in the discipline. In addition, it will provide them access to potential career opportunities for full time employment after graduation in industry, academia and government.