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ISCB Student Council and the Regional Student Group Korea

Sungsoo Kang & Joshua Yang

Korean BioInformation Center


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


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)


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


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


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


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


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


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

Illustration of BioPeople

Co-authorship Network

Research field network

Citation Network

Research profiles for a biologist

Molecular biology

Human Genome Project

SNP

Overall statistics and analysis

World-wide map displaying work placesPaper


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.

~1500 web services

Illustration of BioPipeline


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.

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/

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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