This meeting report gives an overview of the keynote lectures and a selection of the student presentations at the 5 International Society for Computational Biology Student Council Symposium at the 17 Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) and the 8 European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB). The symposium was held in Stockholm, Sweden from J...

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council was launched in 2004 to facilitate interaction between young scientists in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology. Since then, the Student Council has successfully run events and programs to promote the development of the next generation of computational biologists. However, in its early years, the Studen...

Different researchers from across the globe are currently using computer technology coupled with biological research to answer biologically relevant questions. Computational biology is playing a fundamentally important role in the development of society by providing information quickly and facilitating the research process. This field of study was introduced to Pakistan in 2003, when undergradu...

Innovation in computational biology research is predicated on the availability of published methods and computational resources. These resources facilitate the generation of new hypotheses and observations both on the part of the creators and the scientists who use them. These methods and resources include Web servers, databases, and software, both complex and simple, that implement a specific ...

Sharing results, techniques, and challenges is paramount to advance our understanding of any field of science. In the scientific community this exchange of ideas is mainly made possible through national and international conferences. Scientists have the opportunity to showcase their work, receive feedback, and improve their presentation skills. However, conferences can be large and intimidating...

Bioinformatics is recognized as part of the essential knowledge base of numerous career paths in biomedical research and healthcare. However, there is little agreement in the field over what that knowledge entails or how best to provide it. These disagreements are compounded by the wide range of populations in need of bioinformatics training, with divergent prior backgrounds and intended applic...

The activation of the glycolysis of resting muscle by increased extracellular potassium is dependent upon the simultaneous presence of calcium, but not of sodium ions. This regulation of metabolism by a membrane characteristic seems to act upon an early link in the glycolytic enzyme chain. The classical investigations of Overton (1902, 1904) have shown that, while an isolated muscle maintains i...

Consider the linear space n of polynomials of degree n or less over the complex field. The abscissa mapping on n is the mapping that takes a polynomial to the maximum real part of its roots. This mapping plays a key role in the study of stability properties for linear systems. Burke and Overton have shown that the abscissa mapping is everywhere subdifferentially regular in the sense of Clarke o...

The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the major meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). Over the past 23 years the ISMB conference has grown to become the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference. ISMB 2016 will be the year's most important computational biology event globally. The confere...