title: Advances in translational bioinformatics and population genomics in the Asia-Pacific.
abstract: The theme of the 2012 International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) in Bangkok, Thailand was "From Biological Data to Knowledge to Technological Breakthroughs." Besides providing a forum for life scientists and bioinformatics researchers in the Asia-Pacific region to meet and interact, the conference also hosted thematic sessions on the Pan-Asian Pacific Genome Initiative and immunoinformatics. Over the seven years of conference papers published in BMC Bioinformatics and four years in BMC Genomics, we note that there is increasing interest in the applications of -omics technologies to the understanding of diseases, as a forerunner to personalized genomic medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences and ARC Centre of Excellence, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
authors.forename: Shoba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ranganathan
authors.forename: Sissades
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Tongsima
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Tin Wee
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schönbach
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D019295:Computational Biology; D023281:Genomics; D017422:Sequence Analysis, DNA