TAINAN, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--National Cheng Kung University kicked off GIW 2012 -- the 23rd International Conference on Genome Informatics -- at International Conference Hall Dec. 12, attracting more than 140 scholars from 10 countries including Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, Canada, America, Germany, and Australia.
The focus of three-day conference was to explore complex biological systems and to employ the expertise of computer engineering in designing effective methodologies for genome-wide study, said Dr. Jung-Hsien Chiang, the general chair of GIW 2012, at the opening ceremony.