ACM BCB 2014: Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

ACM生物信息学和计算生物学年度国际会议是生物信息学，计算生物学和生物医学信息学领域的首要ACM会议，也是ACM SIGBio的主要旗舰会议。ACM BCB会议已经进入第五个年头。2014年ACM BCB会议将于2014年9月20日至23日在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶举行，旨在提供一个更好的平台，以弥合计算机科学，数学，统计学，生物学，生物信息学和生物医学等重要跨学科研究领域，并扩大代表性不足的群体的参与。虽然发展生物信息学和计算生物学研究的协同作用已被证明是非常困难的，但对女生和少数民族学生来说尤其具有挑战性。ACM BCB致力于探索和发展这种协同作用。ACM BCB 2014预计将成为计算机科学、计算机工程、应用计算、生物学、医学、生物物理科学和生命科学领域研究人员和学生的大型年度聚会。它将汇集一系列附属研究研讨会，主题演讲和辅导讲座，以及特殊兴趣的研究会议，以协调研究会议。为了促进广泛参与这一活动，我们计划继续在我们的？生物信息学中的女性该倡议旨在招募和吸引年轻女学生和研究人员参与这一跨学科领域的工作。为了继续这一倡议，我们计划邀请一位杰出的女科学家作为主旨发言人，她的经验和成功可能会激励许多学生。会议的最大受益者将是研究生。通过他们在ACM BCB会议的参与，研究生将有很大的机会，以满足在相关领域的杰出研究人员，与其他同行交流思想，并促进更强大的跨学科研究。每个支持的学生将参加博士论坛，这将为他们提供一个机会，与同行和导师就他们的研究进行互动。所要求的旅行支持将使我们能够为代表性不足的少数民族和女学生提供机会，以满足邀请的杰出演讲者，提出自己的研究想法，讨论任何新的研究问题，并促进计算和生物研究人员的联合社区内的新合作。

The Annual ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology is the premier ACM conference in the areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and biomedical informatics, and the main flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. The ACM BCB conference is in its fifth year. The 2014 ACM BCB conference, to be held in Los Angeles, CA September 20-23, 2014, is aimed at providing a better platform to bridge important interdisciplinary research areas in computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics and biomedicine, and broaden the participation from underrepresented groups. While the development of the synergy of the research on bioinformatics and computational biology has proven to be very difficult, it is particularly challenging for female and minority students. ACM BCB is dedicated to exploring and developing such synergies. ACM BCB 2014 is expected to be a large annual gathering of researchers and students in computer science, computer engineering, applied computing, biology, medicine, biophysical sciences and life sciences. It will assemble a spectrum of affiliated research workshops, keynote and tutorial lectures, and special interest research sessions into a coordinated research meeting. To promote broad participation in this event, we plan to continue in our ?women in bioinformatics? initiative, which was created to recruit and engage young female students and researchers in this interdisciplinary area. In continuing this initiative, we plan to invite a distinguished female scientist as a keynote speaker whose experience and success may inspire many students.The biggest beneficiaries of the conference will be the graduate students. Through their participation at the ACM BCB conference, graduate students will have great opportunities to meet distinguished researchers in the related fields, exchange ideas with other peers and foster more robust interdisciplinary research. Each supported student will participate in the PhD forum which will afford them an opportunity to interact with peers and mentors about their research. The travel supports requested will allow us to provide underrepresented minorities and female students with opportunities to meet the invited distinguished speakers, to present their own research ideas, to discuss any new research problems, and to foster new collaborations within a joint community of computational and biological researchers.