SoIBio (Sociedad Iberoamericana de Bioinformatica / Iberoamerican Society for Bioinformatics) is a scientific and professional society of international rank, founded in 2009 in Mexico, which includes a large region with 22 countries, twenty in America: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Uruguay, Venezuela; plus Spain and Portugal in Europe (associated with Latin America by cultural and social links and by formal cooperation). The Society was founded following the previous work and experience of the RIB (Ibero-American Bioinformatics Network) which was, from 2002 to 2008, a joint collaboration project of several Ibero-American research groups working in the new field of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. SoIBio is a member of ISCB (The International Society for Computational Biology) as an active Latin American affiliated group. SoIBio is also a member of GOBLET (Global Organisation for Bioinformatics Learning, Education and Training).
SOIBIO events
New Activities, Workshops, Conferences coming 2026, 2027:
– 2026: ELIXIR-Mexico Workshop/Taller on Bioinformatics Data and Knowledge Resources to bring together those who create, maintain and use computational resources for the life sciences in Mexico: databases, tools, repositories and collections. It is organised in collaboration with ELIXIR (https://elixir-europe.org/), the European data infrastructure for the life sciences, and with SoIBio (https://soibio.org/). The workshop will take place from 16 to 27 November 2026 at the Centre for Genomic Sciences, UNAM, Cuernavaca, Morelos, MEXICO.
– 2026: ISCB-LatAm SoIBio SPBBC Conference on Bioinformatics 2026, organized in a joint venture by the Sociedad Peruana de Bioinformática y Biología Computacional (SPBBC), the Iberoamerican Society of Bioinformatics (SoIBio) and the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB), in LIMA – PERU (9-13.November 2026): https://www.iscb.org/latam2026
Other Activities and Conferences recently organized by SOIBIO et al.:
– 2024: SoIBio + ISCB + CCBCOL, ISCB-Latin America SoIBio CCBCOL International Conference on Bioinformatics 2024, in MEDELLIN – COLOMBIA (12-15.November 2024): https://www.iscb.org/latam2024/
– 2023: SoIBio & A2B2C + RIABIO 2023, International Conference on Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence applied to Big BioData, in ROSARIO – ARGENTINA (30.October-3.November 2023): http://2023.a2b2c.org.ar/
– 2022 Queretaro, MEXICO: ISCB-LA SoIBio BioNetMX Joint Conference on Bioinformatics 2022, 12th SoIBio
(November 3-7, 2022).
