The Bioinformatics Education summit gathers representatives from academia, research institutes, industry and other stakeholders who are involved in different aspects of capacity building in the disciplines of bioinformatics and computational biology. The LMICs session at the summit started on the 2020 iteration of the event, it was created to start addressing topics of special interest to the communities within the Low-to-Middle-Income countries focusing on their specific challenges.

As a result of the first meeting the LMICs community is in the process of issuing the best practices guidelines and recommendations and is set to initiate living documents and resources that will be available to the training community in general.

This year we are being welcomed by The Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Network, APBioNET. The LMICs community is continuing and extending their discussions to tackle concerns related to support education and training in these countries, shared bioinformatics infrastructure, and broadening bioinformatics training to non-hot spot regions. The activities will also take us to and update on the best practices guidelines and H3ABioNet’s ‘Simple rules on starting bioinformatics from scratch’ publication

• 2022 summit will be held on May 9, 10 and 11, LMICs session to take place on day 2 in parallel with the ‘ISCB endorsement’ theme

• Two time zones will be running, KUL/SG (GMT+8) and Toronto/NY (GMT-4)

• Regions: Asia/Australia, North America

• 4.5 hrs session per region

  • ½ hour break

  • 1 hour of joint discussion, all themes & all timezones (typically used as ‘reporting’ time)

  • 1 hour of joint discussion per individual theme, both timezones (often used as ‘handover’ from one time zone to another

  • 2 hours of individual work per theme/time zone

• Send materials and activities at least 1 week before