BMC Bioinformatics. 2009 Dec 3;10 Suppl 15(Suppl 15):S1. doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-10-S15-S1.
The 2009 annual conference of the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet), Asia's oldest bioinformatics organisation from 1998, was organized as the 8th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB), Sept. 9-11, 2009 at Biopolis, Singapore. InCoB has actively engaged researchers from the area of life sciences, systems biology and clinicians, to facilitate greater synergy between these groups. To encourage bioinformatics students and new researchers, tutorials and student symposium, the Singapore Symposium on Computational Biology (SYMBIO) were organized, along with the Workshop on Education in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (WEBCB) and the Clinical Bioinformatics (CBAS) Symposium. However, to many students and young researchers, pursuing a career in a multi-disciplinary area such as bioinformatics poses a Himalayan challenge. A collection to tips is presented here to provide signposts on the road to a career in bioinformatics. An overview of the application of bioinformatics to traditional and emerging areas, published in this supplement, is also presented to provide possible future avenues of bioinformatics investigation. A case study on the application of e-learning tools in undergraduate bioinformatics curriculum provides information on how to go impart targeted education, to sustain bioinformatics in the Asia-Pacific region. The next InCoB is scheduled to be held in Tokyo, Japan, Sept. 26-28, 2010.
2009 年亚太生物信息学网络（APBioNet）年会，作为亚洲最古老的生物信息学组织，成立于 1998 年，组织了第八届国际生物信息学会议（InCoB），于 2009 年 9 月 9 日至 11 日在新加坡的生物园举行。InCoB 积极邀请来自生命科学、系统生物学和临床医生领域的研究人员，以促进这些群体之间的更大协同作用。为了鼓励生物信息学学生和新研究人员，组织了教程和学生研讨会，以及新加坡计算生物学研讨会（SYMBIO），同时还组织了生物信息学和计算生物学教育研讨会（WEBCB）和临床生物信息学（CBAS）研讨会。然而，对于许多学生和年轻研究人员来说，在生物信息学等多学科领域追求职业发展是一个巨大的挑战。这里提出了一系列建议，为生物信息学职业发展提供了路标。本增刊还介绍了生物信息学在传统和新兴领域的应用概述，为生物信息学的未来研究提供了可能的途径。一个关于电子学习工具在本科生物信息学课程中的应用的案例研究，提供了如何进行有针对性的教育的信息，以维持亚太地区的生物信息学。下一届 InCoB 将于 2010 年 9 月 26 日至 28 日在日本东京举行。
