The International Conference on Bioinformatics

In 2005, InCoB was part of a festival of international events on bioinformatics called BIOINFO'2005 in Busan, South Korea, where the meeting of the Association for Asian Societies for Bioinformatics (AASBi) also took place.

InCoB was one of the first conferences to publish our top conference papers in international peer-reviewed impact-factored journals such as the BMC BioMed Central family of journals starting in InCoB 2006, Delhi India.

The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network of bioinformatics practitioners throughout Asia, the Pacific and beyond, has teamed up with local national bioinformatics organisers each year to mount InCoB with every greater success.

In InCoB 2007 Hong Kong, live sessions were narrow-casted to Hanoi to enable the region's developing country budding bioinformatics researchers to have a chance to take part and learn from others.

In InCoB 2008 Taipei, we partnered the FAOBMB (Federation of Asian Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists) in running special bioinformatics workshops.

In InCoB 2009 Singapore, we were the first to feature a Nobel Laureate keynote speaker. In addition, InCoB was able to launch an APBioNet initiative on Minimum Information About a Bioinformatics Investigation (MIABI).

By InCoB 2010 Tokyo, we were having multiple journals featuring our top papers in multiple tracks. To date, we have our top papers published in several journals including BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, Immunome Research, IPSJ Transactions and Bioinformation. This year was the year we launched the BioDB100 initiative, which is the aim of gathering 100 bioinformatics databases which are MIABI-standards compliant under one interoperable framework.

Where InCoB has been to...