ACM-BCB: Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

随着数据的数量和复杂性的增加，以及所解决的问题变得更加复杂，生物信息学和计算生物学研究已经形成，它们将计算机科学、数学、统计学和生物化学的专业知识整合到生物和生物医学研究中。生物信息学和计算生物学涵盖了广泛的研究课题，从基因组、蛋白质组和分子生物学数据分析到组织工程、细胞工程、医学图像分析以及生物和医疗设备。数字和高通量技术的日益广泛使用使生物和生物医学研究人员能够从实验室实验、调查数据、健康记录和广泛的生物标志物中产生海量数据。此外，公共基因组数据库的提供以及对理解序列和注释、蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用数据、蛋白质结构和结构域信息的相关分析，增加了开发计算机科学新方法的需要，以便为整合和提取提供新的计算工具和方法。2010年ACM国际生物信息学和计算生物学会议(ACM-BCB 2010)是第一次在生物信息学、计算生物学和生物医学研究领域举行的ACM(计算机械协会)会议。这标志着ACM S更好地支持生物信息学和计算生物学社区的努力的开始。会议计划在纽约尼亚加拉瀑布会议中心举行。最佳学生论文奖将是提升研究生的绝佳手段吗？从事尖端计算机科学研究。此外，通过ACM-BCB大会，ACM希望建立生物信息学和计算生物学社区，并建立ACM生物信息学和计算生物学特别兴趣小组(SIGBio)。在尼亚加拉瀑布举行的ACM-BCB2010会议期间，将举行一次社区会议，以评估和发展对成立ACM SIGBio的支持，进一步帮助确保计算机科学在这一多学科领域的积极参与。

As the amount and complexity of the data increase and as the questions being addressed become more sophisticated, bioinformatics and computational biology researches have been formed which integrate expertise in computer science, mathematics, statistics, and biochemistry into the biological and biomedical researches. Bioinformatics and computational biology cover a broad range of research topics from genomic, proteomic and molecular biology data analysis to tissue engineering, cell engineering, medical image analysis and biological and medical devices. The increasingly wide use of digital and high-throughput technology has enabledbiological and biomedical researchers to generate massive amounts of data from laboratoryexperiments, survey data, health records and a wide array of biomarkers. In addition, the availability of public genomic databases and the associated analysis on comprehending sequences and annotations, protein-protein interaction data, protein structures and domain information has increased the need for the development of new approaches in computer science to inform new computational tools and methodologies directed towards integration and extraction. The 2010 ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and ComputationalBiology (ACM-BCB 2010) is the first ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) conference inthe areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and biomedical research. It marks the start of ACM?s efforts to better support the bioinformatics and computational biology community. The conference is scheduled to be held at Niagara Falls Conference center, in Niagara Falls, New York. The best student paper awards will be an excellent means to promote graduate students? involvement with cutting-edge computer science research. In addition, through the ACM-BCB conference, ACM hopes to build the bioinformatics and computational biology community and establish an ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (SIGBio). A community meeting will be held during the ACM-BCB2010 conference at Niagara Falls to assess and develop the support for forming the ACM SIGBio, further helping to insure the active participation of computer science in this multidisciplinary area.