GENSIPS'12 Conference: Fostering Interdisciplinary Research and Education in Computational Biology

计算系统生物学是一个高度跨学科的研究领域，旨在了解分子和细胞在时间和空间中的相互作用，以确定复杂生物系统的功能，使用复杂的数学和统计工具。培养具有分子生物学和计算科学跨学科专业知识的新一代计算生物学家将对未来的生物和生物医学研究和产业产生重大影响。IEEE基因组信号处理与统计研讨会，简称GENSIPS，是由IEEE信号处理学会主办的研讨会。GENSIPS 2012的目标是1)解决新兴组学领域的系统生物学问题，特别是下一代测序技术；2)显著增加信号处理、计算机科学、生物统计学和生物科学界的研究生和博士后研究人员，特别是女性和少数民族学生的参与。美国国家科学基金会将为符合条件的研究生和博士研究人员提供旅行奖励，以支持他们发表研究论文。特别是，20-30%的奖学金将分配给女性和少数民族学生。最终，GENSIPS 2012将有助于培养学生对计算系统生物学的教育。

Computational systems biology is a highly inter-disciplinary research area that seeks to understand interplays of molecules and cells in time and space to determine functioning of a complex biological system using sophisticate mathematical and statistical tools. Fostering a new generation of computational biologists that possess the interdisciplinary expertise of molecular biology and computational science will significantly impact future biological and biomedical research and industry. IEEE Workshop on Genomic Signal Processing and Statistics, or GENSIPS, is a workshop sponsored by the IEEE Signal Processing Society. The goals of GENSIPS 2012 are 1) to address the systems biology issues in the emerging omics fields, especially the next-generation sequencing technologies; 2) to significantly increase the participation of graduate students and post-doctoral researchers, especial woman and minority students from signal processing, computer science, biostatistics, and biological science community. This request for fund from NSF will provide travel awards to qualified graduate students and doctoral researchers to support them to present their research papers. Particularly, 20-30% of the awards will be allocated to woman and minority students. Ultimately, GENSIPS 2012 will contribute to fostering student education on computational systems biology.