Dear colleagues, It is our pleasure to invite you to the 2013 spring meeting of the (protein) structure bioinformatics society (NSBM). The meeting will take place in Lunteren on April 16 and run parallel with the first day of the annual two day NBIC meeting. We are proud to announce that two imminent scientists have accepted our invitation to participate in our club meeting.: Janet Thornton is the director of the EBI. She has been one of the worlds pioneers in protein structure bioinformatics. She recently was honoured by the British queen for her imminent role in science. Janet will present a key-note lecture and will present to 'us' a seminar on EBI specific bioinformatics topics. Daniel Hoffmann is a bioinformatics professor from the university of Duisburg-Essen. He has a background in mathematics/physics, but nevertheless is a wonderful teacher with great skills in making difficult concepts clear to the more bio-oriented scientists among us. Daniel has accepted our invitation to explain to us the concepts behind the recent developments in predicting structures from sequence alignments (see the articles by Nimwegen, Jones, and Marks and Sander). Additionally, we will have a poster session, and 6 poster presenters will be invited to present their poster in a seminar. Here all information can be found http://www.aanmelder.nl/nbic2013/: - The program of both the NBIC and NSBM meeting - How to register - How to submit the abstract. With kind regards, Gert Vriend NSBM