The Bioinformatics Society of India (INBIOS), is organizing a meeting of its members as Brainstorm 2003 at Nizam College, Hyderabad, on April 5-6. The society formed by bioinformatics professionals in India and abroad has been meeting mostly in cyberspace. Recently it had a meeting on the ground in Chennai.

INBIOS coordinator Ashwin Sivakumar said bioinformatics is in a transitive phase in India and this calls for the industry and academia to work together to set an ideal launch pad for making proper bioinformatics initiatives for the years to come. Sivakumar is a bioinformatics programmer at University of Helsinki, Finland.

This event also is an opportunity for bioinformatics enthusiasts to get to know the latest in the bioinformatics trends and technology. India being a developing country, only a select list of institutions gets access to sophisticated tools and high quality journals. Thus we are encouraging people to submit summaries of already published technical papers (may not be their own paper) as power point presentations so that this can be a group learning session for enthusiasts and researchers in this field to get a know how of various research sub-branches, he said. For more details contact info@inbios.org or bioash@mgspeed.com