The International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) is incorporated in the United States as a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation, and registered in the state of California as a Charitable Trust. Now hosted at the San Diego Supercomputer Center at University of California, San Diego, the Society was officially formed in 1997 as an outgrowth of the conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB). From humble beginnings, both ISCB's membership and ISMB's annual attendance have kept pace with the overall explosive growth experienced in the field of bioinformatics/computational biology.
For the complete story from conception to present day please visit the History link below. Additional links provide copies of documents that detail the legal structure of ISCB, which may prove interesting to our current and prospective members, as well as be of some use to regional groups around the world wanting to form national or regional societies and not knowing how to begin. And finally, ISCB's mission, vision and values are detailed in the 2003 Strategic Plan, and activities over the years are documented in the Newsletter Archives. We encourage you to peruse both of these links for a perspective on where we've been and where we may be going in the years ahead.
