In collaboration with some of our sponsors we are providing a total of 7 travel fellowships for undergraduate, master's and PhD students from all over the world. Submit your applications before May 26th!

Furthermore, we are pleased to announce that through the generosity of additional sponsors we will again be able publish a selection of outstanding abstracts as a supplement to BMC Bioinformatics.

We have posted the final agenda with keynotes by Mark Gerstein, Timothy Hughes and Burkhard Rost as well as a panel discussion on "Career Paths in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology". Our panelists will be Philip Bourne, Alfonso Valencia, Jong Bhak and Richard Wintle.