Proceedings of the 2019 MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOS) Conference

摘要

The 16th Annual MidSouth Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Society (MCBIOSXVI) conference was held in Hilton Birmingham at University of Alabama Birmingham(UAB) conference center on March 28–30, 2019. The theme of the conference was Informatics for Precision Medicine. The co-chairs and conference hosts were Drs. Jake Y.Chen and Matthew Might from the University of Alabama Birmingham.The program co-chairs were Dr. Weida Tong from the National Center for ToxicologicalResearch at the Food and Drug Administration (NCTR/FDA) and Dr. PurushothamBangalore from the University of Alabama Birmingham. The program (detailed below) included two tutorial workshops, 13 breakout oral presentations in seven different scientifictracks, two poster sessions, four keynote speakers, one roundtable discussion, one expertpanel session, and two career development sessions. The workshop coordinators were Dr.Andy Crouse from UAB and Dr. Mary Yang from University of Arkansas Little Rock. Thestudent outreach (career development) coordinators were Dr. Inimary Toby from Universityof Dallas, Dr. Brittany N. Lasseigne from HudsonAlpha, and student representative UjwaniNukala from University of Arkansas.