BioMed Central Blog
BioMed Central at ISMB/ECCB in Vienna
Last week saw the biggest bioinformatics event of the year, with the joint Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology/European Conference on Computational Biology attracting nearly 2000 delegates to Vienna. Bioinformatics is a field where open access is now very much the norm rather than the exception, and enthusiasm for openness was clearly on show amongst the attendees, who vied to get hold of the much prized "I'm Open" BMC Bioinformatics T-shirts.
Some trends which seemed clear at the conference included an increasing focus on the medical applications of bioinformatics, and a general sense that bioinformaticians need to do more to make tools both relevant to and usable by a typical researcher. Systems biology was also a big growth area, with strong awareness of BMC Systems Biology, even though the journal published its first articles only in January this year.
Photos from the conference:
BioMed Central's marketing team prepare to hit the conference centre
Handing out shirts.
Matt Hodgkinson, Senior Editor, responsible for BMC Bioinformatics.
Two more BMC Bioinformatics fans.
Dinner with members of the BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics and BMC Systems Biology editorial boards. The average Erdรถs number around the table was impressively low!
The team head for home, mission accomplished.
Posted by Matthew Cockerill at 20:13 Comments (0)