Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

太平洋生物计算研讨会（PSB）是一个国际性的多学科会议，旨在介绍和讨论当前应用于重大生物问题的计算方法的理论和实践研究。PSB 2010年至2014年将是该系列的第15 - 20次会议。 每年3月，与会者为将于次年1月举行的PSB会议提出会议建议。在竞争日益激烈的选择过程中，选择6至8个会议，被接受的提案的提交者成为会议的组织者。这些会议通常由正在开发新研究领域的年轻科学家组织，因此PSB为认真研究这一快速变化领域的新兴方法和方法提供了早期机会。这一机制还为青年科学家提供了机会，使他们能够通过组织一次公共科学机构会议而获得重大的职业发展。 被接受的论文发表在档案会议记录卷，这是由PubMed索引。所有论文都是开放获取的。提交的论文经过严格的审查，通常只有30%或更少的论文被接受出版，相当于每年约50篇论文。总共有大约33篇最好的论文是口头提交的。这些演讲分为6至8场。此外，PSB包含以下内容：1.两个主题演讲; 2.连续的海报会议;和3.与会议相关的讲习班，促进重点突出的小组讨论。在主要会议之前，与会议相关的教程为即将到来的会议提供背景，新兴地区研讨会有助于为未来的发展奠定基础。PSB根据参与者的反馈和建议不断改进。 PSB会议受到高度重视，PSB会议记录也很好读。从1996年到2004年，PSB会议论文的影响因子约为6.2（我们的估计，来自Web of Science的数据）。鉴于会议选择的动态方式，本次会议继续在计算生物学/生物信息学的发展中发挥重要作用，为新兴领域提供重要的关键曝光，并且可靠的引用率表明本次会议的强大影响。

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and practice of computational methods as applied to significant biological problems. PSB 2010 ¿ 2014 will be the 15th - 20th meetings of this series. Each March, participants propose sessions for the PSB meeting to be held the following January. In an increasingly competitive selection process, 6 to 8 sessions are chosen, and the submitters of the accepted proposals become the organizers for the sessions. These sessions are often organized by young scientists who are developing new research areas, and so PSB provides early opportunities for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field. This mechanism also provides the opportunity for a young scientist to gain a significant career boost by organizing a PSB session. Accepted papers are published in the archival proceedings volumes, which are indexed by PubMed. The resulting papers are all open access. Submitted papers are rigorously reviewed, with typically 30% or fewer being accepted for publication, corresponding to about 50 papers each year. A total of about 33 of the very best papers are presented orally. These presentations are organized into 6 to 8 sessions. In addition, the PSB contains the following: 1. two keynote lectures; 2. a continuous poster session; and 3. session-associated workshops that promote highly focused group discussions. Prior to the main meeting, session-associated tutorials provide background for the upcoming sessions and emerging-area workshops help lay the groundwork for future developments. PSB has continually improved from participant feedback and suggestions. The PSB meeting is highly regarded, and the PSB proceedings are well read. For the volumes from 1996 to 2004, the impact factor for the articles in the PSB proceedings is about 6.2 (our estimate, data from the Web of Science). Given the dynamic way in which sessions are chosen, this meeting continues to play an important role in the development of computational biology / bioinformatics by providing important, critical exposure to emerging areas, and the solid citation rate indicates a strong impact of this meeting.