APBioNet AGM

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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
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Nominations for ExCo Member

• New Nominations
• Hannah Xue (HK)
• Christopher Baker (CA)
• Kwoh Chee Keong (SG)
• Jong Bhak (KR)
• WenLian Hsu (TW)

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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)

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About APBioNet 9 years old

• www.apbionet.org started in 1998!
• Establishing bioinformatics research in the Asia
  PacificShoba Ranganathan, Martti Tammi, Michael
  Gribskov, Tin Wee TanBMC Bioinformatics 2006,
  7(Suppl 5)S1 (18 December 2006)

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Presidents Report

• APBioNet meetings
• Successful InCoB2006 at New Delhi, India over
  800 participants
• Launch of the APBioNet/InCoB BMC Bioinformatics
  Supplement last year
• This years meeting at the beautiful campus of
  HKUST, thanks to the support of Prof. Hannah Xue
  Hong
• Nansha event Biocyberinfrastructure meeting of
  ASEAN-China.

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Presidents Report

• APBioNet meetings (contd.)
• 1st WWWFG World Wide Workflow Grid Symposium in
  Singapore Jun07
• the EABN workshop
• and others see http//www.apbionet.org/

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Presidents Report

• 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.

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Presidents Report

• 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.

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Presidents Report

• 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.

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Presidents Report

• 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.

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Any other business

• Potential InCoB 2008/2009 sites
• Australia with GIW
• Taiwan with FAOBMB and BITS
• Malaysia with new Malaysian Bioinformatics
  Society
• etc

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Acknowledgements

• APAN, LS-Grid, GridAsia and other organizations
  supporting grid computing in bioinformatics
• APBionet Secretariat headed by Assoc. Prof. Tin
  Wee Tan