Highlights from the ISCB Student Council Symposia in 2016

Abstract

This editorial provides a brief overview of the 12th International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) Student Council Symposium and the 4th European Student Council Symposium held in Florida, USA and The Hague, Netherlands, respectively. Further, the role of the ISCB Student Council in promoting education and networking in the field of computational biology is also highlighted.

Highlights of the 2nd Brazilian student council symposium, organized by ISCB Regional Student Group Brazil

“…The Brazilian Student Council Symposium is a one day event. We follow up the format of the successful ISCB-SC events like: LA-SCS 2014 [1], SCS 2015 [2], SCS 2016 [3] and LA-SCS 2016 [4].…”

Highlights of the 2nd Brazilian student council symposium, organized by ISCB Regional Student Group Brazil

“…We follow up the format of the successful ISCB-SC events like: LA-SCS 2014 [1], SCS 2015 [2], SCS 2016 [3] and LA-SCS 2016 [4].…”

Highlights of the 1st Student Symposium on Computational Genomics

“…The Student Symposium on Computational Genomics was a satellite meeting of the computational conference Challenges in Computational Biology: Gene Expression Data Analysis. We got inspired in organising this event by the annual Student Council Symposia (SCS) [1,3,4] and similar initiatives of RSGs [5][6][7][8][9][10]. The primary goal of these symposia are to provide young researchers with the opportunity to present their work to an international audience and to gain insights into the latest topics, to educate them with outstanding keynote talks by renowned researchers, and to offer the chance to build a world-wide network within the community of bioinformatics and computational biology.…”