title: Challenges of the next decade for the Asia Pacific region: 2010 International Conference in Bioinformatics (InCoB 2010).
abstract: The 2010 annual conference of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation formed in 1998, was organized as the 9th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), Sept. 26-28, 2010 in Tokyo, Japan. Initially, APBioNet created InCoB as forum to foster bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region. Given the growing importance of interdisciplinary research, InCoB2010 included topics targeting scientists in the fields of genomic medicine, immunology and chemoinformatics, supporting translational research. Peer-reviewed manuscripts that were accepted for publication in this supplement, represent key areas of research interests that have emerged in our region. We also highlight some of the current challenges bioinformatics is facing in the Asia Pacific region and conclude our report with the announcement of APBioNet's 100 BioDatabases (BioDB100) initiative. BioDB100 will comply with the database criteria set out earlier in our proposal for Minimum Information about a Bioinformatics and Investigation (MIABi), setting the standards for biocuration and bioinformatics research, on which we will report at the next InCoB, Nov. 27 - Dec. 2, 2011 at Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia. shoba.ranganathan@mq.edu.au
authors.forename: Shoba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ranganathan
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schönbach
authors.forename: Kenta
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Nakai
authors.forename: Tin Wee
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D006801:Humans; D048088:Informatics; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D007564:Japan; D049490:Systems Biology