European Conference on Computational Biology

European Conference on Computational Biology

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Frequency Annually
Location(s) Republic of Ireland Dublin, Ireland (2015)
Years active 12
Previous event ECCB 2014
Next event ISMB/ECCB 2015
Attendance 2,000 (when colocated with ISMB)[1]
Organised by Alex Bateman, Janet Kelso, Des Higgins (2015 chairs)
Member International Society for Computational Biology
Website
www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2015
Janet Thornton at the UniProt symposium, a satellite event to ECCB 2012 in Basel, giving a talk on molecular evolution.

The European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB) is a scientific meeting on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology. It covers a wide spectrum of disciplines, including bioinformatics, computational biology, genomics, computational structural biology, and systems biology. ECCB is organized annually in different European cities. Since 2007, the conference has been held jointly with Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) every second year. The conference also hosts the European ISCB Student Council Symposium.[2][3] The proceedings of the conference are published by the journal Bioinformatics.

History

Formation

ECCB was formed with the intent of providing a European conference focusing on advances in computational biology and their application to problems in molecular biology. The conference was initially to be held on a rotating basis, with the idea that previously successful regional conferences (for instance, the German Conference on Bioinformatics (GCB), the French Journées Ouvertes Biologie, Informatique et Mathématiques (JOBIM) conference and the British Genes, Proteins & Computers (GPC) conference) would be jointly held with ECCB if that region was hosting ECCB in that particular year.[4][5] The first ECCB conference was held in October 2002 in Saarbrücken, Germany and was chaired by Hans-Peter Lenhof.[6] 69 scientific papers were submitted to the conference.[4]

Partnership with ISMB

In 2004, ECCB was jointly held with the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference for the first time. It was also co-located with the Genes, Proteins & Computers conference. This meeting, held in Glasgow, UK, was the largest bioinformatics conference ever held,[7] attended by 2,136 delegates, submitting 496 scientific papers.[8] ISCB Board member and Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Alfonso Valencia considers ISMB/ECCB 2004 to be an important milestone in the history of ISMB: "it was the first one where the balance between Europe and the States became an important part of the conference. It was here that we established the rules and the ways and the spirit of collaboration between the Americans and the Europeans."[9] The success of the joint conference paved the way for future European ISMB meetings to be held jointly with ECCB. In January 2007, ISMB and ECCB agreed to hold joint conferences in Europe every other year, beginning with ISMB/ECCB 2007.[10] This pattern has been confirmed to continue until at least 2017.[11]

List of conferences

Conference Location Venue Conference Chairs
ECCB 2002[12] Germany Saarbrücken, Germany Saarland University Hans-Peter Lenhof, Thomas Lengauer
ECCB 2003[13] France Paris, France Cité des Sciences et de l'Industrie Hans-Peter Lenhof and Marie-France Sagot
ISMB/ECCB 2004[14] United Kingdom Glasgow, UK Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre Janet Thornton, David Gilbert and Cath Brooksbank
ECCB 2005[15] Spain Madrid, Spain Palacio de Congresos de Madrid Roderic Guigó, Federico Morán, Alfonso Valencia, and Josep F. Abril
ECCB 2006[16] Israel Eilat, Israel Dan Eilat Hotel Haim Wolfson and Hershel Safer
ISMB/ECCB 2007[17] Austria Vienna, Austria Vienna International Centre Thomas Lengauer, Burkhard Rost, and Peter Schuster
ECCB 2008[18] Italy Cagliari, Italy Cagliari Congress Center Anna Tramontano
ISMB/ECCB 2009[19] Sweden Stockholm, Sweden Stockholm International Fairs Marie-France Sagot, Eugene W. Myers, Gunnar von Heijne
ECCB 2010[20] Belgium Ghent, Belgium International Convention Center Ghent Yves Moreau and Jaap Heringa
ISMB/ECCB 2011[21] Austria Vienna, Austria Vienna International Centre Burkhard Rost, Michal Linial, Peter Schuster, Kurt Zatloukal; 10th annual ECCB conference.
ECCB 2012[22] Switzerland Basel, Switzerland Congress Center Basel Torsten Schwede and Dagmar Iber; in association with the 10th Basel Computational Biology Conference
ISMB/ECCB 2013[23] Germany Berlin, Germany Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin Burkhard Rost, Anna Tramontano, Martin Vingron
ECCB 2014[24] France Strasbourg, France Strasbourg Convention Centre[25] Marie-Dominique Devignes, Yves Moreau

Planned Conferences

Conference Location Venue Notes
ISMB/ECCB 2015 Republic of Ireland Dublin, Republic of Ireland Convention Centre Dublin[26]
ECCB 2016[27] Netherlands The Hague, Netherlands
ISMB/ECCB 2017[11] Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic

References

  1. ↑ Rost, B.; Gaasterland, T.; Lengauer, T.; Linial, M.; Markel, S.; Morrison McKay, B. J.; Schneider, R.; Horton, P.; Kelso, J. (13 July 2012). "Paving the future: finding suitable ISMB venues". Bioinformatics 28 (19): 2556–2559. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts420.
  2. ↑ "Homepage". European Student Council Symposium. Archived from the original on September 8, 2012. Retrieved September 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Abeel, T.; De Ridder, J.; Peixoto, L. (2009). "Highlights from the 5th International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium at the 17th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 8th European Conference on Computational Biology". BMC Bioinformatics 10: I1. doi:10.1186/1471-2105-10-S13-I1. PMC 2764124. PMID 19840405.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Lengauer, T. (1 April 2002). "Editorial". Bioinformatics 18 (Suppl 2): S1–S1. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.suppl_2.S1.
  5. ↑ Lenhof, H.-P.; Sagot, M.-F. (8 October 2003). "ECCB 2003". Bioinformatics 19 (Suppl 2): ii1–ii2. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btg1051.
  6. ↑ "ECCB 2002 Organization". Bioinformatics 18 (Suppl 2): S2–S3. 1 April 2002. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/18.suppl_2.S2.
  7. ↑ "History of ISCB". www.iscb.org. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  8. ↑ "ISMB/ECCB 2004". ISMB/ECCB 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2013.
  9. ↑ Gibson, Todd A. "The Roots of Bioinformatics in ISMB". PLoS Computational Biology 8 (8): e1002679. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002679.
  10. ↑ Linial, M.; Mesirov, J. P.; Morrison Mckay, B. J.; Rost, B. (2008). "ISMB 2008 Toronto". PLoS Computational Biology 4 (6): e1000094. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000094. PMC 2427177. PMID 18584023.
  11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 "ISCB Newsletter - Summer 2014 - Volume 17, Issue 2" (PDF). ISCB. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  12. ↑ "Proceedings of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2002)". Bioinformatics 18 (Suppl 2): S1–S259. April 2002. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  13. ↑ "Proceedings of the European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2003)". Bioinformatics 19 (suppl 2): ii1–ii255. 27 September 2003. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  14. ↑ "Proceedings Twelfth International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/Third European Conference on Computational Biology 2004 Glasgow, UK July 31-August 4, 2004". Bioinformatics 20 (Suppl 1): i1–i395. 4 Aug 2004. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  15. ↑ "ECCB/JBI'05 PROCEEDINGS. Fourth European Conference on Computational Biology/Sixth Meeting of the Spanish Bioinformatics Network (Jornadas de BioInformática), Palacio de Congresos, Madrid, Spain, September 28-October 1, 2005". Bioinformatics 21 (suppl 2): ii1–ii269. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bti1145. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  16. ↑ "ECCB 2006 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS, JANUARY 21-24, EILAT, ISRAEL". Bioinformatics 23 (2): e1–e244. 15 January 2007. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl631. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  17. ↑ "ISMB/ECCB 2007 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 21–25 JULY 2007, VIENNA". Bioinformatics 23 (13): i1–i586. 13 July 2007. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm285. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  18. ↑ "ECCB 2008 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS 22-26 SEPTEMBER 2008, CAGLIARI, ITALY". Bioinformatics 24 (16): i1–i255. 15 August 2008. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn377. PMC 2718667. PMID 18689809. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  19. ↑ "ISMB/ECCB 2009 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS JUNE 27 TO JULY 2, 2009, STOCKHOLM, SWEDEN". Bioinformatics 25 (12): i1–i384. 15 June 2009. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  20. ↑ "ECCB 2010 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS SEPTEMBER 26 TO SEPTEMBER 29, 2010, GHENT, BELGIUM". Bioinformatics 26 (18): i409–i667. 15 September 2010. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btq499. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  21. ↑ "ISMB/ECCB 2011 PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE JULY 17 TO JULY 19, 2011, VIENNA, AUSTRIA". Bioinformatics 27 (13): i1–i411. 1 July 2011. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btr298. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  22. ↑ "ECCB 2012 PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE SEPTEMBER 9 TO SEPTEMBER 12, 2012, CONFERENCE CENTER BASEL, SWITZERLAND". Bioinformatics 28 (18): i303–i648. 15 September 2012. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/bts490. Retrieved 12 February 2014.
  23. ↑ "ISMB/ECCB 2013 PROCEEDINGS PAPERS COMMITTEE JULY 21 TO JULY 23, 2013, BERLIN, GERMANY". Bioinformatics 29 (13): i1–i371. 1 July 2013. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btt281. Retrieved 3 October 2013.
  24. ↑ Devignes, MD; Moreau, Y (1 September 2014). "ECCB 2014: The 13th European Conference on Computational Biology.". Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) 30 (17): i345–8. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu512. PMID 25161218.
  25. ↑ http://www.eccb14.org/
  26. ↑ The CCD is to host the International Society of Computational Biology Conference (ISMB/ECCB) 2015 - The Convention Centre Dublin
  27. ↑ 15th European Conference on Computational Biology website
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