Jesneck Jonathan L, Yang Jack Y
Department of Pediatric Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, 44 Binney Street Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
Int J Comput Biol Drug Des. 2008;1(3):219-23. doi: 10.1504/ijcbdd.2008.021415.
Supported by US National Science Foundation (NSF) and the International Society of Intelligent Biological Medicine (ISIBM), the IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School was designed dynamically in response to the cutting edge synergistic research and education. One of the key components of this academic event is the poster presentation focusing on specific topics to foster collaboration between the computational biology and drug design domains. The Harvard meeting attracted over five hundred scientists, researchers and medical doctors world-wide to present, discuss and exchange their research. The synergies between computational biology and drug design research had been well observed by participants. The poster sessions had been designed to be responsive to the need for synergistic inter/multidisciplinary research and education. A panel of judges was formed to decide the best posters. The papers in this special issue were selected for runners-up of the best poster award by a panel of judges. Authors were then invited to expand their posters into full research papers. Submitted papers were required to contain significant additional scientific detail and were rigorously reviewed by at least three external reviewers. Detailed information regarding the academic event can be found at the White Paper of the IEEE 7th International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering at Harvard Medical School at BMC Genomics http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S2/I1.
由美国国家科学基金会（NSF）和国际智能生物医学协会（ISIBM）赞助，在哈佛医学院举办的第七届IEEE生物信息学与生物工程国际会议是为响应前沿协同研究与教育而动态设计的。本次学术活动的关键组成部分之一是海报展示环节，该环节聚焦特定主题，以促进计算生物学与药物设计领域之间的合作。哈佛会议吸引了来自全球五百多位科学家、研究人员和医生前来展示、讨论和交流他们的研究成果。与会者充分观察到了计算生物学与药物设计研究之间的协同效应。海报展示环节旨在满足协同跨学科/多学科研究与教育的需求。为此成立了一个评审小组来评选最佳海报。本期特刊中的论文是由评审小组选为最佳海报奖亚军的论文。随后邀请作者将他们的海报扩展为完整的研究论文。提交的论文需要包含大量额外的科学细节，并由至少三位外部评审员进行严格评审。有关此次学术活动的详细信息可在BMC基因组学上的哈佛医学院第七届IEEE生物信息学与生物工程国际会议白皮书网站http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2164/9/S2/I1上找到。
