The 18th International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2014)

2014年计算分子生物学研究国际会议（RECOMB）是计算分子生物学系列国际会议的第十八届会议。计算生物学已经成为现代生物学研究的重要工具之一，RECOMB是该领域历史最悠久、最负盛名的会议之一。可以说，这是将创新的计算机科学应用于生物学的首次会议。会议将于2014年4月2日至5日在宾夕法尼亚州匹兹堡举行，由卡内基梅隆大学和匹兹堡大学联合主办。专门为学生旅行奖申请资金，以支持在会议上展示作品的美国学生。尽管我们尽了一切努力来保证会议的可承受性，但对于潜在的与会者，尤其是学生与会者来说，成本仍然是一个障碍。这些差旅奖金将涵盖注册、酒店和差旅费用，由会议项目委员会根据学生的工作水平、个人优点和需求进行评选。将特别注意妇女和少数民族研究人员。该系列会议旨在吸引计算分子生物学所有领域的研究贡献，包括分析基因组和其他分子序列的工作，理解生物功能基础的复杂系统的相互作用，处理构成这些系统的分子结构，理解生物图像数据，以及推进所有这些任务所需的计算机模型和算法。会议将邀请著名的主讲人，由该领域顶尖研究人员组成的项目委员会从提交的论文中选出口头报告，并从提交的摘要中选出海报报告。此外，会议将为活跃的研究人员和学生之间的一对一互动提供充足的机会。拟议的旅行奖将特别把这个机会扩大到在美国的学生，否则他们可能没有机会参加会议。这次会议和提议的旅行奖学金在教育方面具有特别的价值，为计算生物学的学生创造了一个独特的训练机会，否则他们可能无法在一个享有声望的国际会议上展示自己的工作。将特别邀请妇女和少数族裔申请人，她们在一般计算工作中的代表性仍然不足。

This International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) 2014 is the eighteenth in a series of international conferences in computational molecular biology. Computational biology has become one of the essential tools of modern biological research and RECOMB is one of the oldest and most prestigious conferences in the field. It is arguably the premiere meeting for work on innovative computer science applied to biology. The meeting will be held in Pittsburgh, PA on April 2-5, 2014, jointly hosted by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. Funding is requested specifically for student travel awards to support U.S.-based students presenting work at the meeting. While every effort is being made to keep the meeting affordable, cost can nonetheless be an obstacle for potential attendees, especially student attendees. These travel awards will cover registration, hotel, and travel costs for a selected group of student presenters, competitively chosen based on the caliber of their work as assessed by the conference program committee and the individual merit and need of the students. Special attention will be given to women and minority researchers.The conference series aims at attracting research contributions in all areas of computational molecular biology, including work on analyzing genomes and other molecular sequences, understanding the interaction of complicated systems that underlie biological function, working with molecular structures that make up these systems, making sense of biological image data, and advancing the computer models and algorithms needed for all of these tasks. The meeting will feature a prestigious group of keynote speakers, oral presentations chosen from submitted papers by a program committee of top researchers in the field, and poster presentations selected from submitted abstracts. In addition, the meeting will offer ample opportunities for one-on-one interactions between active researchers and students. The proposed travel awards will particularly extend this opportunity to U.S.-based students who might otherwise lack the opportunity to participate in the meeting.The meeting and proposed travel fellowships will have particular value for educational purposes, creating a unique training opportunity for computational biology students who might not otherwise be able to present work at a prestigious international meeting. Particular invitation will be made to women and minority applicants, who remain underrepresented in computational work in general.