24 August 2015 · 1ISCB Student Council · ISCB Student Council and the Regional Student Group Korea Sungsoo Kang & Joshua Yang Korean BioInformation Center

24 August 2015 · 2ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 3ISCB Student Council · Achievements of the ISCB student council Event ambassador of ‘The Source Event’ –a science career event organized by Nature Jobs and London First – 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)

24 August 2015 · 4ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 5ISCB Student Council · Status of the ISCB student council 425 student members –Jun 7, 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

24 August 2015 · 7ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 8ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 9ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 10ISCB Student Council · 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 places Paper

24 August 2015 · 12ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 14ISCB Student Council · 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

24 August 2015 · 16ISCB Student Council · 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 – Moodle system –Course management system –Free, open source software package –

BioMoodle web interfaces

24 August 2015 · 18ISCB Student Council · Future plan of RSG Korea Recruiting more student members Developing more creative and interesting group projects Conducting the first workshop of RSG Korea