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

本次计算分子生物学研究国际会议(RECOMB)2014是计算分子生物学系列国际会议的第十八届。计算生物学已经成为现代生物学研究的基本工具之一，而RECOMB是该领域最古老和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工作的首场会议。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。特别要求为学生旅行奖励提供资金，以支持在会议上展示工作的美国学生。虽然正在尽一切努力让会议负担得起，但成本仍然可能成为潜在与会者的障碍，特别是学生与会者。这些旅行奖励将涵盖选定的学生推荐人小组的注册、住宿和旅行费用，这些学生推荐人是根据会议计划委员会评估的工作水平以及学生的个人优点和需求进行竞争性选择的。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，了解构成生物功能的复杂系统的相互作用，与组成这些系统的分子结构合作，理解生物图像数据，并提出所有这些任务所需的计算机模型和算法。会议将有一组著名的主旨演讲者，从该领域顶尖研究人员的项目委员会提交的论文中选择口头演讲，以及从提交的摘要中挑选海报演讲。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。拟议的旅行奖项将特别将这一机会扩大到那些本来可能没有机会参加会议的美国学生。会议和拟议的旅行奖学金将具有特殊的教育价值，为计算生物学学生创造了一个独特的培训机会，否则他们可能无法在享有盛誉的国际会议上展示工作。将向妇女和少数族裔申请者发出特别邀请，因为她们在计算机工作中的代表性普遍较低。

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.