International Conference on Bioinformatics

Frequency| Annually
Location(s)| Shenzhen, China (2017)
Years active| 22
Previous event| InCoB 2017
Next event| InCoB 2018
Organised by| Jinyan Li, Lan Ma (2017 chairs)
Member| APBioNet
Website| incob.apbionet.org

The International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) is a scientific conference on bioinformatics aimed at scientists in the Asia Pacific region. It has been held annually since 2002.[1] Originally organised by coordination between the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) and the Thailand National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) in 2002, the meeting has since been the flagship conference of the APBioNet, where APBioNet's Annual General Meeting is held.

## Scientific publications

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Since 2006, InCoB has been partnering with BMC Bioinformatics to publish an InCoB Special Conference Issue of top papers presented at the conference.[2] In 2007, an additional tie-up with the Bioinformation journal was established in addition to the BMC Bioinformatics issue.

## Technological placeshifting

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Since 2007, InCoB held in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, has been placeshifted in an additional location in a developing country venue, namely the Vietnam National University, Hanoi (VNU) through the advanced videoconferencing project of APAN and TEIN2. In 2015, InCoB was organised jointly with the International Conference on Genome Informatics in an attempt to increase effectiveness and scalability.[3]

## Satellite training workshops

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Since 2007, at the VNU site coordinated by the Institute of Biotechnology Hanoi (IBT), InCoB coordinated with the International Union for Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (IUBMB), the Federation of Asian Oceanian Biochemists and Molecular Biologists (FAOBMB) and APBioNet to hold a two-week bioinformatics training course with course faculty from Karolinska Institutet, NCBI and National University of Singapore, supported by the S* Alliance for Bioinformatics Education and BioSlax, a software development project hosted at NUS as part of an ASEAN SubCommittee on Biotechnology (SCB) project. This collaboration with IUBMB and FAOBMB continues in 2008 with a bioinformatics education workshop in Taipei, Taiwan, where the main meeting of InCoB 2008 will be situated.

## Past and present conferences

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (October 2017)

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Conference[1] | Location(s) | Hosting Institution(s)

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InCoB 2002  | Bangkok, Thailand  |
InCoB 2003  | Penang, Malaysia |
InCoB 2004  | Auckland, New Zealand |
InCoB 2005  | Busan, South Korea |
InCoB 2006  | Delhi, India |
InCoB 2007  | Hong Kong, China; Hanoi, Vietnam | Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
InCoB 2008  | Taipei, Taiwan |
InCoB 2009  | Singapore |
InCoB 2010  | Tokyo, Japan |
InCoB 2011  | Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia  |
InCoB 2012  | Bangkok, Thailand  | National Science and Technology Development Agency, BIOTEC, KMUTT
InCoB 2013  | Taicang, China  |
InCoB 2014  | Brighton-Le-Sands, New South Wales, Australia  |
InCoB 2015  | Odaiba, Japan  |
InCoB 2016  | Singapore  |
InCoB 2017  | Shenzhen, China  | Tsinghua University
InCoB 2018  | New Delhi, India  | Jawaharlal Nehru University
InCoB 2019  | Jakarta, Indonesia  | Universitas YARSI
InCoB 2020  | Asia-Pacific and Beyond  | Virtual

## External links

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* APBioNet Website
* InCoB Website

## References

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1. ^ a b "Where InCOB Has Been – International Conference on Bioinformatics". incob.apbionet.org. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
2. ^ Schönbach, Christian; Verma, Chandra; Bond, Peter J.; Ranganathan, Shoba (22 December 2016). "Bioinformatics and systems biology research update from the 15th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB2016)". BMC Bioinformatics. 17 (S19): 524. doi:10.1186/s12859-016-1409-7. PMC 5259976. PMID 28155668.
3. ^ Schönbach, Christian; Horton, Paul; Yiu, Siu-Ming; Tan, Tin; Ranganathan, Shoba (2015). "GIW and InCoB, two premier bioinformatics conferences in Asia with a combined 40 years of history". BMC Genomics. 16 (Suppl 12): I1. doi:10.1186/1471-2164-16-S12-I1. PMC 4682400. PMID 26679412.

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Bioinformatics

Databases|

* Sequence databases: GenBank, European Nucleotide Archive, DNA Data Bank of Japan and China National GeneBank
* Secondary databases: UniProt, database of protein sequences grouping together Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL and Protein Information Resource
* Other databases: BioNumbers, Protein Data Bank, Ensembl, InterPro, KEGG, and Gene Ontology
* Specialised genomic databases: BOLD, Saccharomyces Genome Database, FlyBase, VectorBase, WormBase, Rat Genome Database, PHI-base, Arabidopsis Information Resource, GISAID and Zebrafish Information Network

Software|

* BLAST
* Bowtie
* Clustal
* EMBOSS
* HMMER
* MUSCLE
* PANGOLIN
* SAMtools
* SOAP suite
* TopHat

Other|

* Server: ExPASy
* Rosalind (education platform)

Institutions|

* Broad Institute
* Computational Biology Department (CBD)
* Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology (COSBI)
* Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS)
* DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ)
* European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
* European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
* Flatiron Institute
* J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI)
* Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG)
* US National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
* Japanese Institute of Genetics
* Netherlands Bioinformatics Centre (NBIC)
* Philippine Genome Center (PGC)
* Scripps Research
* Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics (SIB)
* Wellcome Sanger Institute
* Whitehead Institute

Organizations|

* African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (ASBCB)
* Australia Bioinformatics Resource (EMBL-AR)
* European Molecular Biology network (EMBnet)
* International Nucleotide Sequence Database Collaboration (INSDC)
* International Society for Biocuration (ISB)
* International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB)
* Student Council (ISCB-SC)
* Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR-IGIB)
* Japanese Society for Bioinformatics (JSBi)

Meetings|

* Basel Computational Biology Conference‎ ([BC2])
* European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)
* Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)
* International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB)
* International Conference on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB)
* ISCB Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics
* Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB)
* Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB)

File formats|

* CRAM format
* FASTA format
* FASTQ format
* NeXML format
* Nexus format
* Pileup format
* SAM format
* Stockholm format
* VCF format
* GFF format
* GTF format

Related topics|

* Computational biology
* List of biobanks
* List of biological databases
* Molecular phylogenetics
* Sequencing
* Sequence database
* Sequence alignment

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