International Society for Computational Biology Honors Goncalo Abecasis with Top Bioinformatics/Computational Biology Award for 2013

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http://www.iscb.org) honors a scientist each year for their outstanding achievements. The ISCB Overton Prize honors an early or mid-career scientist who has already made significant and enduring contributions to the field of computational biology. Dr Goncalo Abecasis of the University of Michigan is the 2013 recipient of the Overton Prize. Dr Abecasis was selected the by ISCB’s awards committee, which is chaired by Dr Alfonso Valencia of the Spanish National Cancer Research Center (CNIO) in Madrid. Dr Abecasis will receive his award and deliver keynote address at the ISCB’s 21st annual Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) meeting. This meeting is being held jointly with the 12th European Conference on Computational Biology and will take place in Berlin, Germany on July 21–23, 2013 (http://www.iscb. org/ismbeccb2013).