The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) presents the 14th Annual International conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB 2006). Hosted August 6-10 by the Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation) and LNCC/MCT (National Laboratory for Scientific Computation of the Science and Technology Ministry of Brazil) chaired by Goran Neshich and Ana Tereza Ribeiro de Vasconcelos, ISMB 2006 will provide a forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics. This multidisciplinary conference brings together scientists from molecular biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. The scope of ISMB encompasses the development and application of advanced computational methods for biological problems at the levels of sequences, cells, organs, and organisms.

The conference will feature original, refereed papers, which will be published as a supplementary issue of Bioinformatics and indexed in the Medline database. The proceedings will be provided to participants as a bound volume at the conference. As in previous years, there will also be tutorials, posters, software demonstrations, and an exhibition of hardware and software vendors.