This is the post-event Web site for PSB 2010.

Information on the upcoming PSB is now available. The PSB 2010 conference materials, electronic proceedings, and schedule are available. Please see below for more information.

Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2010

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2010 was an international, multidisciplinary conference for the presentation and discussion of current research in the theory and application of computational methods in problems of biological significance. Papers and presentations were rigorously peer reviewed and were published in an archival proceedings volume. PSB 2010 was held January 4-8, 2010 at the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii.

PSB 2010 brought together top researchers from the US, the Asian Pacific nations, and around the world to exchange research results and address open issues in all aspects of computational biology. PSB is a forum for the presentation of work in databases, algorithms, interfaces, visualization, modeling and other computational methods, as applied to biological problems, with emphasis on applications in data-rich areas of molecular biology.

The PSB has been designed to be responsive to the need for critical mass in sub-disciplines within biocomputing. For that reason, it is the only meeting whose sessions are defined dynamically each year in response to specific proposals. PSB sessions are organized by leaders in the emerging areas, and targeted to provide a forum for publication and discussion of research in biocomputing's "hot topics." In this way, PSB provides an early forum for serious examination of emerging methods and approaches in this rapidly changing field.

PSB 2010 Sessions

Session Survey Tutorials were offered on January 4, 2010.

PSB 2010 Workshops

PSB offered two three-hour workshops on January 4 and a special workshop on January 7. The workshops were created to provide an opportunity for a gathering that will not be based on peer-reviewed papers included in the proceedings book. The workshops consisted of presentations by invited speakers. Abstract submissions for the workshops were evaluated by the workshop co-chairs.

Peer Reviewed Papers

The core of the conference consists of rigorously peer-reviewed full-length papers reporting on original work.

Keynote speakers

Stanley Nelson, Professor of Human Genetics and Psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, gave a talk entitled Whole human cancer genome sequencing: issues and progress towards common application..

Isaac Kohane, Professor of Pediatrics and Medicine, Harvard Medical School, gave a talk entitled Preventing the Incidentalome and Practicing a Responsible Personalized Medicine.

Sponsors

PSB gratefully acknowledges the support of its sponsors. We would like to offer a special thanks to the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health for their participation since the founding of the conference and for their commitment to travel support for PSB 1999, PSB 2000, PSB 2001, PSB 2002, PSB 2003, PSB 2004, PSB 2005, PSB 2006, PSB 2007, PSB 2008, PSB 2009, and PSB 2010. PSB is affiliated with the International Society for Computational Biology.

Please visit our sponsors' websites and let them know you appreciate their support of PSB.

National Library of Medicine International Society for Computational Biology

If you or your organization would like to be a sponsor of PSB, please email the PSB Coordinator at psb.hawaii @ gmail.com.

Previous PSB Meetings

Information about previous PSB meetings, including the full electronic proceedings, is available.

For more information:


Tiffany Murray
PSB Coordinator
Department of Bioengineering
318 Campust Drive S170
Stanford, CA, USA 94305-5444

Telephone: (650) 725-0659 FAX: (650) 723-8544

Email: psb.hawaii @ gmail.com


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