sentences:  Originally organised by coordination between the Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network (APBioNet) and the Thailand National Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (BIOTEC) in 2002, the meeting has since been the flagship conference of the APBioNet, where APBioNet's Annual General Meeting is held.Since 2006, InCoB has been partnering with "BMC Bioinformatics" to publish an InCoB Special Conference Issue of top papers presented at the conference.In 2007, an additional tie-up with the "Bioinformation journal" was established in addition to the "BMC Bioinformatics" issue.