Student Support for the 8th Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB 2017)

第八届ACM生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学国际会议（ACMBCB2017）是ACM SIGBio（生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学特别兴趣小组）的旗舰会议，将于2017年8月20日至23日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。它是计算机科学、数学、统计学、生物学、生物信息学、生物医学信息学和健康信息学等跨学科研究的首要传播论坛。它的使命是支持先进的研究、培训和推广。它汇集了世界各地的主要研究人员、从业者和学生，以促进生物科学领域的新科学发现，并为社会影响提供新知识。在过去的几十年里，生物和医疗数据的规模和复杂性都有了巨大的增长，包括最近主流对大数据挑战的认识。然而，生物信息学、计算生物学和生物医学信息学研究的协同发展一直是困难的。因此，培养年轻一代的新文化是很重要的。美国国家科学基金将资助约20名美国顶尖的初级专业人员（学生和刚毕业的博士后研究员）参加会议。此外，由于女性和未被充分代表的少数群体在生物信息学和计算生物学（BCB）领域的参与度相对较低，ACMBCB2017将扩大其“生物信息学中的女性”组织，以强烈鼓励女性和其他未被充分代表的初级研究人员的参与。我们将邀请两名资深专业人士分享他们在职业发展方面的经验和智慧，并担任导师，协助年轻专业团体在全年不断建设社区。这些活动的目标是增加初级研究人员的参与；培养下一代计算机科学、生物科学、生物医学和其他相关领域的研究人员和教育工作者；扩大BCB中代表性不足群体的多样性；并提供资深研究人员的指导，为年轻专业人员提供服务，以改善ACM SIGBio的生物信息学，计算生物学和健康信息学社区建设。ACMBCB2017会议将展示围绕从实验室到床边的各种科学、临床和医疗保健应用的数据和信息的收集、处理、分析和建模的新技术和技术的前沿研究。它将为来自不同学科的研究人员提供精心策划和组织的活动，如研讨会、教程、口头会议和海报会议，以促进讨论和合作。ACMBCB2017的材料，包括初级研究人员的贡献（例如，简短的研究计划和报告）将在ACMBCB2017网站（http://acm-bcb.org/2017/）上共享。

The 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACMBCB2017) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics) to be held in Boston, MA, August 20-23, 2017. It is the premier dissemination forum for interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics. Its mission is to support advanced research, training, and outreach. It brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and students around the world to promote novel scientific findings in bioscience and to deliver new knowledge for societal impact. The past few decades have seen tremendous growth in the scale and complexity of biological and medical data including recent mainstream recognition of big data challenges. However, the development of synergy in bioinformatics, computational biology, and biomedical informatics research has been difficult. Thus, it is important to cultivate the new culture when training younger generations. This NSF grant will provide support to about 20 top junior U.S.-based professionals (students and recently graduated post-doctoral fellows) to participate in the conference. In addition, because women and underrepresented minority groups have relatively low participation in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BCB), ACMBCB2017 will expand its "Women in Bioinformatics" organization to strongly encourage participation from women and other underrepresented junior researchers. Two senior professionals will be invited to share their experience and wisdom in career development, and to serve as mentors to facilitate young professional groups with the goal to continually build the community throughout the year. The goal of these activities is to increase the participation of junior researchers; train the next generation of researchers and educators in computer science, biological science, biomedical science and other related areas; broaden the diversity from underrepresented groups in BCB; and provide mentorship by senior researchers serve to young professionals to improve bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics community building in ACM SIGBio.The ACMBCB2017 conference will showcase leading-edge research on new technologies and techniques around gathering, processing, analyzing, and modeling of data and information for a variety of scientific, clinical, and healthcare applications, from bench to bedside. It will provide well planned and organized activities such as workshops, tutorials, oral sessions, and poster sessions for researchers from different disciplines to interact, to foster discussion and collaboration. The ACMBCB2017 materials, including contributions from the junior researchers (e.g., short research proposals and presentations) will be shared on website ACMBCB2017 (http://acm-bcb.org/2017/).