The ISMB 2002 Conference provides a general forum for disseminating the latest developments in bioinformatics. It is a multidisciplinary conference that brings together scientists from molecular biology, medicine, computer science, mathematics and statistics. Its scope includes 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 introductory tutorials, posters, software demonstrations, a job fair, and an exhibition of hardware and software vendors. In addition, we will be co-located with several other major conferences in the related fields of artificial intelligence, database design and data-mining.