Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing

太平洋生物计算研讨会(PSB)是一个国际性的多学科会议，旨在介绍和讨论当前在应用于重大生物学问题的计算方法的理论和实践方面的研究。PSB 2010？2014将是这一系列的第15-20次会议。 每年3月，与会者都会为次年1月举行的公共服务委员会会议提出会议建议。在竞争日益激烈的遴选过程中，将选出6至8场会议，被接受的提案的提交者将成为会议的组织者。这些会议通常是由正在开发新研究领域的年轻科学家组织的，因此PSB提供了早期机会，认真审查这个快速变化的领域中新出现的方法和途径。这一机制还为青年科学家提供了通过组织一次PSB会议来获得职业发展的机会。 被接受的论文发表在由PubMed索引的档案论文集中。由此产生的论文都是开放获取的。提交的论文经过严格审查，通常只有30%或更少的论文被接受发表，相当于每年约50篇论文。总共有大约33篇最好的论文是口头发表的。这些演讲被组织成6至8节课。此外，公共服务部门还包括以下内容：1.两次主旨讲座；2.连续的海报会议；3.与会议相关的讲习班，以促进高度集中的小组讨论。在主要会议之前，与会议有关的教程为即将举行的会议提供背景知识，新兴领域讲习班有助于为未来的发展奠定基础。PSB从参与者的反馈和建议中不断改进。 公安局会议备受推崇，公安局议事程序深入人心。对于1996年至2004年的卷数，公共服务会议论文集上的文章的影响因子约为6.2(我们的估计，来自科学网的数据)。鉴于选择会议的方式是动态的，这次会议继续在计算生物学/生物信息学的发展中发挥重要作用，为新兴领域提供了重要和关键的机会，可靠的引用率表明了这次会议的强大影响。

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and practice of computational methods as applied to significant biological problems. PSB 2010 ¿ 2014 will be the 15th - 20th meetings of this series. Each March, participants propose sessions for the PSB meeting to be held the following January. In an increasingly competitive selection process, 6 to 8 sessions are chosen, and the submitters of the accepted proposals become the organizers for the sessions. These sessions are often organized by young scientists who are developing new research areas, and so PSB provides early opportunities for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field. This mechanism also provides the opportunity for a young scientist to gain a significant career boost by organizing a PSB session. Accepted papers are published in the archival proceedings volumes, which are indexed by PubMed. The resulting papers are all open access. Submitted papers are rigorously reviewed, with typically 30% or fewer being accepted for publication, corresponding to about 50 papers each year. A total of about 33 of the very best papers are presented orally. These presentations are organized into 6 to 8 sessions. In addition, the PSB contains the following: 1. two keynote lectures; 2. a continuous poster session; and 3. session-associated workshops that promote highly focused group discussions. Prior to the main meeting, session-associated tutorials provide background for the upcoming sessions and emerging-area workshops help lay the groundwork for future developments. PSB has continually improved from participant feedback and suggestions. The PSB meeting is highly regarded, and the PSB proceedings are well read. For the volumes from 1996 to 2004, the impact factor for the articles in the PSB proceedings is about 6.2 (our estimate, data from the Web of Science). Given the dynamic way in which sessions are chosen, this meeting continues to play an important role in the development of computational biology / bioinformatics by providing important, critical exposure to emerging areas, and the solid citation rate indicates a strong impact of this meeting.