The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) each year recognizes the achievements of an earlyto mid-career scientist with the Overton Prize. This prize honors the untimely death of Dr. G. Christian Overton, an admired computational biologist and founding ISCB board member. Winners of the Overton Prize are independent investigators who are in the early to middle phases of their ca...

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) honors the achievements of an earlyto mid-career scientist with the Overton Prize each year. The Overton Prize was instituted to honor the untimely loss of Dr. G. Christian Overton, a respected computational biologist and founding ISCB Board member. Winners of the Overton Prize are independent investigators in the early to middle phases...

The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http://www.iscb.org) honors a senior scientist each year for his or her outstanding achievements. The ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist recognizes a leading member of the computational biology community for his or her significant contributions to the field through research, service, and training. The 2013 ISCB Accomplishment by ...

S ages have observed that society often honors its living conformists and its dead innovators; ‘‘but we prefer to honor living innovators,’’ says Thomas Lengauer, professor of computational biology, director of the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Saarbrücken, Germany), and chair of the awards committee of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The committee, composed ...

Each year the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http:// www.iscb.org) honors a young scientist who has already achieved a significant and lasting impact on our field. The ISCB Awards Committee, comprised of current and former directors of the society and chaired by Søren Brunak, director of the Center for Biological Sequence Analysis at the Technical University of Denmark, ...

Each year, the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB; http:// www.iscb.org) makes two major awards to recognize excellence in the field of bioinformatics. The ISCB Awards Committee, composed of current and past directors of the Society and previous award winners, has announced that the 2009 ISCB Accomplishment by a Senior Scientist Award will be given to Webb Miller (Image 1) of...