III: Small: ACM BCB 2019: Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

第十届计算机械协会(ACM)生物信息学和计算生物学与健康信息学国际会议(ACMBCB2019)是ACM SIGBio(生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学特别兴趣小组)的旗舰会议，将于2019年9月7-10日在纽约州尼亚加拉瀑布举行。它是连接计算机科学、数学、统计学、生物学、生物信息学、生物医学信息学和健康信息学的跨学科研究的主要传播论坛。它的使命是支持高级研究、培训和推广。它汇集了来自世界各地的优秀研究人员、从业人员和学生，以促进生物科学领域的新科学发现，并提供新知识以产生社会影响。在过去的几十年里，生物和医学数据的规模和复杂性都出现了巨大的增长，包括最近对大数据挑战的主流认识。然而，协同效应在生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学研究中的发展一直是困难的。因此，重要的是培训新的研究人员来实现这种协同效应。该奖项将支持多达15名职业早期专业人员(学生和最近毕业的博士后研究员)分担他们参加会议的旅费。资深研究人员将担任这些职业早期专业人员的导师，以改进生物信息学、计算生物学和健康信息学社区建设。该奖项旨在增加学生和新近毕业的博士后的参与；培训计算机科学、生物科学、生物医学科学和其他相关领域的下一代研究人员和教育工作者；并扩大生物信息学和计算生物学的多样性。ACMBCB2019会议将展示围绕从工作台到床边的各种科学、临床和医疗保健应用程序的数据和信息的收集、处理、分析和建模的新技术和技术的前沿研究。它将提供研讨会、教程、口头会议和海报会议等活动，供来自不同学科的研究人员互动、讨论和合作。要被选中参与，职业早期的专业人士需要提交一份简短的研究提案，其中包含智力优势、更广泛的影响，以及支持信息，如简历和他们的顾问的支持信。一个由经验丰富的研究人员组成的委员会将审查研究提案，并在会议组织者的支持下选出获奖者。此外，这一奖项将使ACMBCB2019能够通过邀请资深研究人员分享她们在职业发展方面的经验和智慧，大力鼓励更多未被充分代表的群体参与，并担任导师，促进职业生涯早期的专业群体，目标是在一年中不断建设社区。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The 10th Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology and Health Informatics (ACMBCB2019), the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics), will be held in Niagara Falls, NY, on September 7-10, 2019. It is the premier dissemination forum for interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics. Its mission is to support advanced research, training, and outreach. It brings together superb researchers, practitioners, and students from around the world to promote novel scientific findings in bioscience and to deliver new knowledge for societal impact. The past few decades have seen tremendous growth in the scale and complexity of biological and medical data including recent mainstream recognition of big data challenges. However, the development of synergy in bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics research has been difficult. Thus, it is important to train new researchers to achieve this synergy. This award will support up to 15 early-career professionals (students and recently graduated post-doctoral fellows) to share their travel costs to the conference. Senior researchers will serve as mentors to these early-career professionals to improve bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics community building. This award aims to increase the participation of students and recently graduated post-docs; train the next generation of researchers and educators in computer science, biological science, biomedical science and other related areas; and broaden diversity in bioinformatics and computational biology.The ACMBCB2019 conference will showcase leading-edge research on new technologies and techniques around gathering, processing, analyzing, and modeling of data and information for a variety of scientific, clinical, and healthcare applications from bench to bedside. It will provide activities such as workshops, tutorials, oral sessions, and poster sessions for researchers from different disciplines to interact, to discuss, and to collaborate. To be selected for participation, early-career professionals will need to submit a short research proposal containing Intellectual Merit, Broader Impact, and supporting information such as a resume and a letter of support from their advisors. A committee consisting of experienced researchers will review the research proposals and select the awardees with the support from the conference organizers. In addition, this award will enable ACMBCB2019 to expand "Women in Bioinformatics" to strongly encourage participation from more underrepresented groups by inviting senior researchers to share their experience and wisdom in career development, and to serve as mentors to facilitate early-career professional groups with the goal to continually build the community throughout the year.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.