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The 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology () ended today, wrapping up three days of lectures and posters presented by some of the world’s finest computational and molecular biologists, mathematicians, computer scientists and statisticians.  

This week, the 18th Annual International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology () meets in Boston, and ӳý-minded bloggers are covering some of the talks. Jill Mesirov, the ӳý's director of computational biology and bioinformatics, is one of the co-chairs of the conference and ӳý core member David Altshuler will be one of the conference's keynote speakers.

This afternoon, Ira Flatow will be talking with medical educator Howard Markel about the word genome on and I can't wait to tune in! The word has a pretty fascinating 80-year history and we use it all the time in the stories we write and blog entries we post. As such, we've added "genome" as a term to our glossary.