1. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region APBioNet AGM – 28 Aug. 2007, HKUST Campus, Hong Kong Agenda Annual Report of the President APBioNet ExCo Current members of the elected ExCo Membership Fees Regional Affiliation with ISCB, AASBi APBioNet Projects and Initiatives - Meetings and Journal Publication - InCoB series and BMC Bioinformatics - LSGrid series / WWWFG meetings Training - APBioNet-ASEAN Bioinformatics HRD Phase III - APBioNet-S* Alliance educational initiatives with IUBMB and FAOBMB Software Development - APBioNet-PAN Asia Networking P2P project - APBioKnoppix project Standardisation - APBioNet National and Institutional Node accreditation Any other business

2. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region Nominations for ExCo Member New Nominations Hannah Xue (HK) Christopher Baker (CA) Kwoh Chee Keong (SG) Jong Bhak (KR) WenLian Hsu (TW)

3. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region Re-election Shoba Ranganathan (AU) Yang UengCheng (TW A Konagaya(JP) Daniel Sze (AU) Martti Tammi (SG) Antonius Suwanto (ID) Meena Sakharkar (SG) Sheila Nathan (MY) Zeti Mohamed (MY)

4. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region About APBioNet: 9 years old www.apbionet.org started in 1998!www.apbionet.org Establishing bioinformatics research in the Asia Pacific Shoba Ranganathan, Martti Tammi, Michael Gribskov, Tin Wee Tan BMC Bioinformatics 2006, 7(Suppl 5):S1 (18 December 2006)

5. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region President’s Report 1.APBioNet meetings –Successful InCoB2006 at New Delhi, India: over 800 participants –Launch of the APBioNet/InCoB BMC Bioinformatics Supplement last year –This year’s meeting at the beautiful campus of HKUST, thanks to the support of Prof. Hannah Xue Hong –Nansha event: Biocyberinfrastructure meeting of ASEAN-China.

6. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region President’s Report 1.APBioNet meetings (contd.) –1st WWWFG World Wide Workflow Grid Symposium in Singapore Jun07 –the EABN workshop –and others see http://www.apbionet.org/

7. President’s Report 2.ISCB affiliation –Congratulations to Prof. Hannah Xue Hong for her election to the Board of Directors! –Support for InCoB2007 by the award of travel grants –Launch of the ISCB Student Council Regional Student Groups –ISCB support in the future for “mature” societies, with paid memberships, annual conferences, projects, working groups and education/outreach. –Prof. TAN Tin Wee is the Chair of the ISCB Affiliates Committee.

8. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region President’s Report 3.APBioNet initiatives –Better resources for the community including APBioKnoppix, BioSlax and P2P Biomirrors –Launch of Biowiki (Jong Bhak, KOBIC/KRIBB) and BioWorkflow (Jack Lin, Inforsense) competitions –Interaction with EMBNet (Jose Valverde in person!) for co-operation and collaboration. –Prof. TAN Tin Wee is the Chair of the ISCB Affiliates Committee.

9. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region President’s Report 4.APBioNet Action Items –Membership: full $50 and student $25, with developing country discounts to $30 and !15 for students. –More active participation in workshops, competitions, training programs –Sharing of educational and training resources to avoid “reinventing the wheel” –Working group leaders required for spearheading initiatives.

10. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region President’s Report 5.InCoB2007 Resolutions –National Bioinformation as part of the action items in EABN sponsored by KOBIC charters with the assistance of Jong Bhak. –National Bioinformation Reports from next year –Research cooperation and collaboration for high quality publications, which will, in turn, lead to funding and global recognition.

11. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region Any other business Potential InCoB 2008/2009 sites –Australia with GIW –Taiwan with FAOBMB and BITS –Malaysia with new Malaysian Bioinformatics Society –etc

12. Fostering the growth of Bioinformatics and allied disciplines in the Asia-Pacific Region Acknowledgements APAN, LS-Grid, GridAsia and other organizations supporting grid computing in bioinformatics APBionet Secretariat: headed by Assoc. Prof. Tin Wee Tan