Tag Archives: ISMB
ISMB2024 – Demystifying the World of AI (and Publishing)
Scott Edmunds - July 21, 2024
Opening a Cabinet of Curiosities in Montreal Readers of this blog must know every summer the GigaScience Press team gathers at the ISMB (International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) conference, where the great and good of computational biology gather for the largest bioinformatics conference of the year. Being the meeting where GigaScience launched in […]
Going Large (Language Models) at ISMB2023
Scott Edmunds - August 3, 2023
GigaScience Press team attended the yearly ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) meeting and learned about Large Language Models.
Open Science Milestones and the return of in-person meetings at ISMB2022
Scott Edmunds - July 19, 2022
Write-up of GigaScience’s 10th birthday at ISMB2022 in Wisconsin, birthday series of papers, and it’s efforts to map to the UNESCO Open Science Recommendations
Another Virtual Birthday: GigaScience at ISMB2021
Chris Armit - August 2, 2021
ISMB2021 was held online again so GigaScience had to celebrate their birthday with a video & virtual cake cutting, plus this writeup of the talks by Chris Armit
Birthdays and Online Conferences go Viral. ISMB2020 & BCC2020 in the time of COVID-19
Chris Armit - July 27, 2020
Meetings In the Time of Coronavirus: Conferences go Viral June-July usually marks peak conference season when the GigaScience team is on the road, but with the COVID-19 pandemic shutting down travel and public gatherings it has been a strangely static summer. As we launched at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference in Long […]
Bioinformaticians Baking in Blazing Basel: ISMBECCB and BOSC 2019
Scott Edmunds - August 8, 2019
In Sultry Switzerland, Bioinformatics is Radiant at ISMBECCB Regular readers will know GigaScience originally launched at the 2012 ISMB (Intelligent Systems of Molecular Biology) meeting in Long Beach, and every subsequent year the conference has held a special place in our hearts as the place where we celebrate our birthday (see all the previous write-ups […]
… and a Happy New Year
Hans Zauner - December 19, 2017
It’s time to review the highlights of GigaScience’s 2017 in Hans Zauner’s traditional end of year summary of what happened over the last 12 months
Bohemian Bashfully. Baroque birthdays and bingo in Prague.
Scott Edmunds - July 31, 2017
Celebrating our birthday at ISMB in Prague, ISMB2017 was a particularly memorable and important one as 5th birthday of GigaScience and 25th edition of the ISMB.
#ISMB16: A Disney Coming of Age Tale.
Scott Edmunds - July 15, 2016
At Disney World infancy ends at 3, or at least that is the age children have to start purchasing tickets. It seemed appropriate to celebrate our 4th birthday there. Or at least at the #ISMB16 Computational Biology meeting that was held this week at the Walt Disney World Resort. Here we report on what happened and how we and the field have been growing up
Open bioinformatics in the house of the mouse.
Scott Edmunds - July 10, 2016
The 2016 Bioinformatics Open Source Conference has just finished here at Disney World Orlando, and here is the write up of the meeting, with discussion on the merits of open bioinformatics and closed cartoons.