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

第八届ACM生物信息学和计算生物学与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20-23日在马萨诸塞州波士顿举行。它是连接计算机科学、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的跨学科研究的主要传播论坛。它的使命是支持高级研究、培训和推广。它将世界各地的领先研究人员、实践者和学生聚集在一起，促进生物科学的新科学发现，并提供新知识，产生社会影响。在过去的几十年里，生物和医学数据的规模和复杂性都出现了巨大的增长，包括最近对大数据挑战的主流认识。然而，协同在生物信息学、计算生物学和生物医学信息学研究中的发展一直是困难的。因此，在培养年轻一代时，培育新文化是很重要的。这笔NSF赠款将为大约20名在美国的顶尖初级专业人员(学生和最近毕业的博士后研究员)参加会议提供支持。此外，由于女性和代表性不足的少数群体在生物信息学和计算生物学(BCB)中的参与度相对较低，ACMBCB2017将扩大其“女性参与生物信息学”组织，以大力鼓励女性和其他代表性不足的初级研究人员的参与。两位资深专业人士将获邀分享他们在职业发展方面的经验和智慧，并担任导师，协助年轻的专业团体，目标是在全年内不断建设社区。这些活动的目标是增加初级研究人员的参与；培训计算机科学、生物科学、生物医学科学和其他相关领域的下一代研究人员和教育工作者；扩大BCB中代表性较低的群体的多样性；并由高级研究人员为年轻专业人员提供指导，以改进ACM SIGBios的生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学社区建设。ACMBCB2017会议将展示围绕从工作台到床边的各种科学、临床和医疗保健应用程序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有计划和有组织的活动，如研讨会、教程、口头会议和海报会议，以进行互动，促进讨论和合作。ACMBCB2017材料，包括初级研究人员的贡献(例如，简短的研究提案和演示文稿)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/).