title: Towards big data science in the decade ahead from ten years of InCoB and the 1st ISCB-Asia Joint Conference.
abstract: The 2011 International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) conference, which is the annual scientific conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), is hosted by Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, is co-organized with the first ISCB-Asia conference of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). InCoB and the sequencing of the human genome are both celebrating their tenth anniversaries and InCoB's goalposts for the next decade, implementing standards in bioinformatics and globally distributed computational networks, will be discussed and adopted at this conference. Of the 49 manuscripts (selected from 104 submissions) accepted to BMC Genomics and BMC Bioinformatics conference supplements, 24 are featured in this issue, covering software tools, genome/proteome analysis, systems biology (networks, pathways, bioimaging) and drug discovery and design.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence in Bioinformatics, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, 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: Janet
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kelso
authors.forename: Burkhard
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rost
authors.forename: Sheila
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Nathan
authors.forename: Tin Wee
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Tan
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D019295:Computational Biology; D015894:Genome, Human; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D012984:Software; D049490:Systems Biology