title: GIW and InCoB are advancing bioinformatics in the Asia-Pacific.
abstract: GIW/InCoB2015 the joint 26th International Conference on Genome Informatics (GIW) and 14th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) held in Tokyo, September 9-11, 2015 was attended by over 200 delegates. Fifty-one out of 89 oral presentations were based on research articles accepted for publication in four BMC journal supplements and three other journals. Sixteen articles in this supplement and six articles in the BMC Systems Biology GIW/InCoB2015 Supplement are covered by this introduction. The topics range from genome informatics, protein structure informatics, image analysis to biological networks and biomarker discovery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biology, School of Science and Technology, Nazarbayev University, Astana, 010000, Republic of Kazakhstan. christian.schoenbach@nu.edu.kz.|Center for AIDS Research and International Research Center for Medical Sciences, Kumamoto University, Kumamoto, 860-0811, Japan. christian.schoenbach@nu.edu.kz.
authors.forename: Christian
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Schönbach
authors.affiliation: Computational Biology Research Center, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tokyo, 135-0064, Japan.|Department of Computational Biology, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, Japan.
authors.forename: Paul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Horton
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, HKSAR.
authors.forename: Siu-Ming
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Yiu
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117599.
authors.forename: Tin Wee
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Tan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore, 117599.|Department of Chemistry and Biomolecular Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia.
authors.forename: Shoba
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ranganathan
mesh_terms: D001208:Asia; D015415:Biomarkers; D035843:Biomedical Research; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003226:Congresses as Topic; D023281:Genomics; D011487:Protein Conformation; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D011499:Protein Processing, Post-Translational; D049490:Systems Biology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers