Travel Support: 12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications

该奖项为参加将于2016年6月5日至8日在白俄罗斯国立大学明斯克举行的第12届生物信息学研究与应用国际研讨会（ISBRA）的约20名美国研究生和博士后学者提供部分旅费支持。本次研讨会为生物信息学和计算生物学及其应用领域的研究人员、开发人员和实践者提供了一个交流思想和结果的论坛，范围从比较基因组学和群体遗传学到结构预测和蛋白质-蛋白质相互作用网络。研讨会为具有互补专业知识的研究人员之间的互动提供了充分的机会，从而促进了新的合作。学生和博士后学者将获得重要的形成经验，这将加强他们的研究，并为他们成为该领域未来的研究领导者做好准备。将特别鼓励妇女和少数民族学生的参与。ISBRA 2016的材料包括论文征集、研讨会计划以及简短的摘要会议记录将在研讨会网站（http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra/）上公开发布。在研讨会上发表的精选摘要的完整版本将被邀请在IEEE/ACM计算生物学和生物信息学、BMC生物信息学和BMC基因组学的同行评议特刊上发表。

This award provides partial travel support for about 20 US graduate students and post-doctoral scholars to attend the 12th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) that will be held on June 5-8, 2016 at Belarus State University, Minsk, Belarus. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on topics in bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications, ranging from comparative genomics and population genetics to structure prediction and protein-protein interaction networks. The symposium provides ample opportunities for interaction between researchers with complementary expertise thus fostering new collaborations. Students and post-doctoral scholars will gain critical formative experience that will enhance their research and prepare them to and to become the future research leaders in the field. Participation of women and minority students will be particularly encouraged.ISBRA 2016 materials including the call for papers, symposium program, as well as short abstract proceedings will be made publicly available on the symposium website (http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra/). Full versions of selected abstracts presented at the symposium will be invited to peer-reviewed special issues of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Genomics.