Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2002/2003/2004

摘要：本提案要求支持太平洋生物计算研讨会（PSB），特别是PSB '03 -'07。该会议每年1月初在夏威夷州举行。PSB '03-'07的确切日期和地点尚未确定。这次会议吸引了来自世界各地的科学家，他们的兴趣在于计算机科学和生物学之间的接口。涵盖了计算生物学的大多数领域，重点是分子生物学，生物信息学和基因组学。本次会议旨在通过提供一个展示前沿研究和交流思想的论坛来促进计算生物学领域的发展。PSB历史：欲了解更多信息，请访问http://www.hsb.stanford.edu。PSB起源于1993年第一次召开的生物技术计算会议；因此，目前支持的PSB 2002将是该会议的第十周年。参加人数从PSB-96（获得PSB称号的第一年）的103人增加到PSB'01的365人。重要特点：许多人认为PSB， RECOMB和ISMB是生物信息学中三个主要的定期会议。在这三者中，PSB具有独特的基层发展机制。协办单位公开征集会议提案，然后从竞争日益激烈的提案组中进行选择。这种方法允许PSB通过参与者定义的有组织的连贯会议来突出新兴领域。所选会议提案的主席是PSB的关键。他们鼓励同事提交论文，开展论文的公开征集，在会议上监督论文的审查，确保被接受的论文在会议前准时发表，并在会议上组织他们的会议和研讨会。在会议上提供会议记录可以增加与会者之间交流的深度。Medline索引和电子可得性相结合，提高了这些会议记录的价值。夏威夷的选址是经过深思熟虑后选择的，因为它可以延伸到环太平洋地区。这一点很重要，因为日本的生物信息学交流和环太平洋地区的新兴力量。事实上，太平洋沿岸地区的参与者数量从96年PSB的17个增加到01年PSB的57个。随着这么多基因组的完成，包括我们自己的粗略草图，PSB比以往任何时候都更加重要。事实上，PSB是在预期这一时期开始的。

Summary: this proposal requests support for The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB), specifically for PSB '03 -'07. This meeting is held annually in early January in the State of Hawaii. The exact dates and locations for PSB '03-'07 have not yet been determined. This meeting attracts scientists from all around the world whose interests lie at the interface between computer science and biology. Most areas of computational biology are covered, with an emphasis on molecular biology, bioinformatics, and genomics. This meeting was established to promote the field of computational biology by providing a forum for the presentation of cutting-edge research and the exchange of ideas. History of PSB: For more information, please visit http://www.hsb.stanford.edu. PSB arose from another meeting Biotechnology Computing, first held in 1993; thus the currently supported PSB 2002 will make the 10th anniversary of this conference. Attendance has grown from 103 at PSB-96, the first year with the PSB designation to 365 at PSB'01. Important Features: Many recognize PSB, RECOMB and ISMB as the three major recurring meetings in bioinformatics. Among these three, PSB has a unique grass-roots development mechanism. The Co-Organizers issue an open call for session proposals and then select from an increasingly competitive group of proposals. This approach allows PSB to spotlight emerging areas with organized coherent sessions as defined by the participants. The chairs of the selected session proposals are the lynchpins of PSB. They encourage submission of papers by colleagues, develop open calls for papers, oversee the reviews of the papers in their sessions, insure that the accepted papers arrive on time for publication prior to the meeting and organize their session and workshop at the meeting. Having the conference proceedings available at the meeting increases the depth of exchanges between participants. Indexing by Medline and electronic availability combine to enhance the value of these conference proceedings. The Hawaii location was chosen with deliberation for its outreach towards the Pacific Rim. This is important because of the exchange of bioinformatics in Japan and the emerging strengths around the Pacific Rim. Indeed the number of Pacific Rim participants grew from 17 at PSB'96 TO 57 AT psb'01. With the completion of so many genomes, including a rough draft of our own, PSB is more important than ever. Indeed, PSB was started in anticipation of this period of time.