The Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) is a scientific meeting held annually since 1996. The conference is unusual in that its sessions are determined annually on the basis of proposals submitted by interested scientists, with the goal of presenting research only on cutting-edge topics. The conference proceedings are published by World Scientific Publishing, and also are freely available in electronic format through PubMed and through the conference web site.
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Size and venue
Attendance at PSB is capped at 375 people. The venue rotates between the Hawai'ian islands, staying at a given hotel for two consecutive years and then moving to a new island.
Ethics talks
Like most scientific meetings, PSB includes keynote speakers; an unusual feature of PSB is that it always includes a keynote speech on ethics. Ethics keynote speech presenters in previous years have included:
- 1996: Eric M. Meslin, The moral status of U.S. science and science policy: lessons from the stem cell research wars
- 1994: Henry T. Greely, Social constraints on acquiring and using human biodata: is privacy dead?
- 1993: Latanya Sweeney, Privacy, HIPAA and the future of genomic research: can technology help?
Influential papers
Influential papers from PSB have included the following:
- Fukuda et al. (1998) Toward information extraction: identifying protein names from biological papers was for several years one of the most-cited papers in the field of BioNLP.
- A series of papers presented at PSB were influential in popularizing the ontology mapping, alignment, and linking tasks in molecular biology.
- Schwartz and Hearst (1993) A simple algorithm for identifying abbreviation definitions in biomedical text describes an algorithm that has become a widely used component of BioNLP systems.
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References
- Hunter, Lawrence; and T.E.D. Klein (editors) (1996) Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing '96 World Scientific Publishing Co. ISBN-10: 9810225784 ISBN-13: 978-9810225780
