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ISCB Student Council and the
Regional Student Group Korea
Sungsoo Kang & Joshua Yang
Korean BioInformation Center
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ISCB Student Council (SC)
• Established in 2004
– Officially approved in 2004, ISMB/ECCB Glasgow
• VISION
– To become the leading student organization in
computational biology
• MISSION
– To develop the next generation of computational biologists
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Achievements of the ISCB student council
• Event ambassador of ‘The Source Event’
– a science career event organized by Nature Jobs and London First
– http://www.thesourceevent.com/
• BioSysBio conference
– an international conference aimed at students, post-docs and junior
faculty working in biotechnology
– Opened ‘quick fire’ session to give 1 minute to everyone willing to
introduce their work
• Mentioned as an example of student-run conference
– In PLoS Comp Biol and Nature Reviews Genetics
• Student council symposium
– ECCB 2005 (1st ), ISMB 2006 (2nd), and ISMB/ECCB 2007 (3rd)
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Benefits of the student council membership
• Access to a worldwide network of computational
biologists
– Contacts with world leading scientists and
– Contacts with industry and get internship information
• Opportunity to participate in council activities
– Organization of local regional student groups
• Economic benefits
– Discounts to attend internationally recognized conferences
(e.g. ISMB)
– Reduced subscription rates for leading scientific journals
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Status of the ISCB student council
• 425 student members
– Jun 7, 2007
• 16 student council leaders
– Highly committed and motivated
– Volunteering their time to expand own initiatives
– Development and management of projects
• 6 regional student groups (RSGs)
– India, Singapore, Canada, Africa, Denmark, and Korea
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Computational biology (bioinformatics) in Korea
• >9 institutes with graduate
program and >45 research
laboratories
– in the field of computational
biology and bioinformatics
• Two domestic bioinformatics
journals
– Genomics & Informatics
– Bioinformatics and Biosystems
• Korean bioinformatics society
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Regional Student Group (RSG) Korea
• Established in July, 2007
– Advisor: Dr. Jong Bhak (KOBIC)
– Student leader: Joshua Yang
(UST/KOBIC)
• Mission
– Enhancing communication and
sharing culture in performing
bioinformatics under the first
principle of conducting scientific
research
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Projects of RSG Korea
• BioPeople
– To collect information on biologist-related entities
• BioPipeline
– To share modular bioinformatics protocols
• BioWiki
– To share open-free bio-information
• BioMoodle
– To share educational resources related to biology
• Other student group projects
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BioPeople project
• Collection and visualization of biologist-related entities
and their relationship in scientific literature
– Social network of biologists based on co-authorship
• Projection of hot topics in current research and prediction
of future trends
– Generation of research profile for a biologist by tracing his/her
academic publications
– Overall statistics and analysis on biologist-related entities
– Principal investigator: Joshua Yang
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Illustration of BioPeople
Citation Network
Paper
World-wide map displaying
work places
Research field
network
Co-authorship Network
Overall statistics and
analysis
Molecular
biology
Human Genome
Project
SNP
Research profiles for a
biologist
BioPipeline project
• Provides easy-to-reuse modular bioinformatics
protocols to solve some bioinformatic tasks
– Develop and update new bioinformatics protocols
– Sponsored by KOBIC
• Integrates ~1500 public web services
– Provided by KEGG, DDBJ, EMBOSS, EBI, and etc.
• Support custom modules developed with
programming languages
– Such as Java, Python, Perl, Groovy, R, and etc.
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Illustration of BioPipeline
~1500 web services
BioWiki project
• Provides open-free online wiki sites to share
biological knowledge
• Wiki
– Collaborative website directly edited by anyone with
access to it (e.g. Wikipedia)
– Supports ‘WYSIWYG’ editing nowadays
• Example websites
– BioPedia, BioSpecies, BioStructure, BioHongKong, and
etc.
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BioWiki websites
BioMoodle project
• Biological education site for creating effective online
learning communities
– Sharing free and open teaching materials including
documents and multi-media files
– Scale from single-teacher site to 40,000-student university
– http://biomoodle.org/
• Moodle system
– Course management system
– Free, open source software package
– http://moodle.org/
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BioMoodle web interfaces
Future plan of RSG Korea
• Recruiting more student members
• Developing more creative and interesting group
projects
• Conducting the first workshop of RSG Korea
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