ISMB 2007 Conference - Annual Meeting for ISCB held jointly in 2007 with the Annual ECCB in Vienna, Austria, 21-25 July, 2007.

该奖项为来自美国机构的学生和初级研究人员参加分子生物学智能系统会议（ISMB）提供部分旅费支持，这是国际计算生物学学会（ISCB）的年度会议，该会议将于2007年7月21日至25日在奥地利维也纳与欧洲计算生物学年度会议（ECCB）联合举行。该奖项还将提供部分支持，邀请美国最杰出的主讲人向与会代表发表演讲。ISCB''‘’的核心使命宣言是通过计算促进对生命系统的科学理解。自1993年以来，ISMB会议为传播生物信息学的最新发展提供了一个年度论坛，从而成为实现协会‘’‘’使命的关键工具。过去的ISMB会议吸引了来自35个以上国家的多达2136名与会者。自2000年以来，会议地点在北美，欧洲和非北美/非欧洲地点之间移动，以促进国际交流和合作。作为一个多元化的多学科会议，ISMB汇集了学生、研究人员、教师和工作人员，他们都专注于计算机科学、分子生物学、生物学、数学和/或统计学。ISMB侧重于以实际生物学问题为中心的研究，而不是简单的理论计算，与会者有效地讨论和分发分子生物学智能系统的最新发展。智能系统包括任何超越直接、封闭算法或标准数据库技术的软件，还包括那些以符号方式查看数据、从示例中学习、巩固多层抽象或综合人类认知可处理的结果的软件，包括用于生物问题的高级计算方法的开发和应用。会议上介绍的相关计算技术包括机器学习、模式识别、知识表示、数据库、组合学、随机建模、字符串和图算法、语言方法、机器人、约束满足和并行计算。会议介绍的生物学领域包括分子结构、基因组学、分子序列分析、进化和系统发育、分子相互作用、代谢途径、调节网络、发育控制、一般分子生物学和人类健康。ISMB/ECCB 2007的科学计划包括由至少两名计划委员会成员审查的研究论文，并由主题领域主席批准，确保最高质量的工作被提交并随后作为《生物信息学》杂志发表。2007年新增了专门讨论最近发表的工作的专题，重点研究领域的特别会议，以及展示商业社区的成就和未来方向的行业专题。此外，通过海报支持最新的突破性研究，并选择同行评审的摘要进行口头报告。特殊兴趣小组的会议、学生组织的研讨会、教程、软件演示和供应商展览填满了日程。

This award provides partial travel support for students and junior researchers from the US institutions to attend the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference, the annual meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), which is being held jointly in 2007 with the annual European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) in Vienna, Austria, July 21-25, 2007. The award will also provide partial support to bring the most distinguished keynote speakers from the US to address the delegates.The core of ISCB''''s mission statement is to advance the scientific understanding of living systems through computation. The ISMB conference has provided an annual forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics since 1993, thus serving as a key vehicle for achievement of the Society''''s mission. Past ISMB conferences have drawn as many as 2136 attendees from 35+ countries. Since 2000 the conference location has been moved between North America, Europe, and non- North American/non-European sites to foster international exchange and collaboration. As a multidisciplinary conference rich in diversity, ISMB brings together students, researchers, faculty, and staff, all of whom share a focus on computer science, molecular biology, biology, mathematics and/or statistics. ISMB focuses on research centered on actual biological problems rather than simply theoretical calculations, and attendees effectively discuss and distribute the latest developments in intelligent systems for molecular biology. Intelligent systems include any software which goes beyond straightforward, closed-form algorithms or standard database technologies, and encompasses those that view data in a symbolic fashion, learn from examples, consolidate multiple levels of abstraction, or synthesize results to be cognitively tractable to a human, including the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems. Relevant computational techniques presented at the conference include machine learning, pattern recognition, knowledge representation, databases, combinatorics, stochastic modeling, string and graph algorithms, linguistic methods, robotics, constraint satisfaction, and parallel computation. Biological areas presented at the conference include molecular structure, genomics, molecular sequence analysis, evolution and phylogenetics, molecular interactions, metabolic pathways, regulatory networks, developmental control, molecular biology generally and human health. The scientific program for ISMB/ECCB 2007 comprises research papers reviewed by at least two members of the program committee, and approved by a topic Area Chair, insuring the highest quality of work is presented and subsequently published as an issue of the journal Bioinformatics. New for 2007 is the addition of tracks dedicated to recently published work, special sessions on focused research areas, and an industry track to showcase achievements and future directions within the commercial community. Additionally, late breaking research is supported through posters and peer reviewed abstracts are selected for oral presentation. Meetings of special interest groups, a student organized symposium, tutorials, software demos and a vendor exhibition fill out the schedule.