2007 APBioNet Annual General Meeting Agenda and Insights

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

3. 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. 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)

5. President’s Report • 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. President’s Report • 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 • 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. President’s 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.

9. President’s 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.

10. President’s 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.

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

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