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0pt 10pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Combining the annual </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> and the </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB)</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, this is the world's largest bioinformatics/computational biology conference. Every year it brings together scientists from computer science, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics, and related fields and provides an intense multidisciplinary forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics/computational biology. The conference fosters fresh dialogues, collaboration and learning opportunities, and is a gathering which shapes the future of the field.</span></p>
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0pt 10pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">With a focus on everyone’s safety, the ISMB/ECCB 2021 conference will be a virtual event. Moving the conference to a state of the art virtual interface will not change what attendees have come to expect from this conference. The virtual interface will only enhance the attendee experience and ensure that more people can enjoy it.</span></p>
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0pt 10pt 0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">At the heart of the scientific program are ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), enabling community involvement and bolstering ISMB/ECCB’s reputation as the leading conference in the field. The </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">CompMS COSI</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> promotes the efficient, high quality analysis of </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">mass spectrometry</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> data through dissemination and training in existing approaches and discussion of new, innovative approaches. The CompMS initiative aims to exploit synergies between different mass spectrometry-based application domains, in particular </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">proteomics, metabolomics</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">lipidomics</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> </span></p>
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