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ISCB Student Council and the Regional Student Group Korea

The ISCB Student Council aims to develop future computational biologists globally, offering access to networks, conferences, and journals. The Regional Student Group Korea, led by Joshua Yang, enhances communication in bioinformatics through innovative projects like BioPeople and BioPipeline.

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ISCB Student Council and the Regional Student Group Korea

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  1. ISCB Student Council and the Regional Student Group Korea Sungsoo Kang & Joshua Yang Korean BioInformation Center

  2. 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

  3. 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)

  4. 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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. Illustration of BioPeople Citation Network Research field network World-wide map displaying work places Paper Co-authorship Network Overall statistics and analysis Molecular biology Human Genome Project SNP Research profiles for a biologist

  11. 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.

  12. Illustration of BioPipeline ~1500 web services

  13. 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.

  14. BioWiki websites

  15. 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/

  16. BioMoodle web interfaces

  17. 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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