SHILLONG, Dec 7: Bioclues, India’s largest bioinformatics society, has organised its 3rd International Conference on Bioinformatics 2020 (INBIX 2020) and virtually hosted it at Bioinformatics Centre, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, on December 4 and 5. Prof SR Joshi and Dr Devendra K Biswal were conveners from NEHU.
Eminent speakers from India and abroad delivered keynote and invited talks while participants from IITs, JNU, BHU, BITs and NITs graced the occasion.
Bioclues is an affiliate of International Society for Computational Biology and Asia Pacific Bioinformatics network. To address issues such as the emerging infectious food-borne trematodiases in the region, this year’s INBIX 2020 was thematised on ‘Recent advances in computational biology for codifying Biodiversity into one health approach: Biodiversity, Climate change, one health and Zoonotic diseases’.
The conference included Bioinformatics projects by schoolchildren, three keynotes, eight invited talks and selected oral presentations besides poster stubs, video abstracts, ideation challenges and Bioclues Innovation Research and Development Awards were given to the outstanding candidates working in the field of computational biology.