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Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing 2017

The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2017 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 2017 was held January 3-7, 2017 at the Fairmont Orchid, Big Island of Hawaii.

PSB 2017 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 2017 Sessions

• Computational approaches to understanding the evolution of molecular function
• Imaging Genomics
• Methods to Ensure the Reproducibility of Biomedical Research
• Patterns in Biomedical Data - How do we find them?
• Precision medicine: from genotypes and molecular phenotypes towards improved health and therapies
• Single-cell analysis and modelling of cell population heterogeneity

PSB 2017 Workshops

PSB offered four three-hour workshop. 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

David Magnus, PhD Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics; Thomas A. Raffin Professor of Medicine and Biomedical Ethics and Professor of Pediatrics, Stanford University; gave a talk entitled Understanding Patient Values in Precision Medicine.