<div dir="ltr"><div><span id="m_-4598274210896475958m_-7688534713497462681gmail-docs-internal-guid-a6f6af31-7fff-06fb-a26c-36b7e840b5d0"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dear all,
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We are pleased to introduce </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nordic Computational Biology</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> (Nordic CompBio, NCB); a platform that aims to amplify ongoing efforts within the fields of computational biology and computer science across the Nordic region.</span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> NCB was launched in 2020 with a goal to become a resource platform and a community space for cross-border collaborations across the Nordics. </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With this email, we invite you to be part of the NCB, so you can contribute to some of the future initiatives listed below:</span></p><ul><li><span id="m_-4598274210896475958m_-7688534713497462681gmail-docs-internal-guid-a6f6af31-7fff-06fb-a26c-36b7e840b5d0"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nordic CompBio Conference: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are looking to put together an organising team from each Nordic region including Estonia and other underrepresented Nordic regions. The idea is to have a geographically-distributed hybrid conference i.e. 1-2 days of conference taking place in one Nordic region, and the next 1-2 days taking place in another region while talks and workshops are live-streamed. Our aim is to increase the visibility of ongoing research, as well as highlight industrial organisations (including startups) in the Nordics. We would like to start off with planning soon and brainstorm ideas - <b>to express your interest and share your suggestions, visit:<a href="https://forms.gle/w3UVq18MDM9PF3eWA"> https://forms.gle/w3UVq18MDM9PF3eWA</a></b></span></span></li></ul></span></div><div><span id="m_-4598274210896475958m_-7688534713497462681gmail-docs-internal-guid-62d050f8-7fff-db82-1d60-1d34a1929ce5"><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nordic CompBio Web Resources:</span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> If you have experience or interest in database and/or web development, join our team to help develop new resources such as creating a job portal. In addition, we welcome contributions to our website content e.g. to build ‘Computational Biology in Nordics’ page (</span><a href="https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/computational-biology-in-nordics/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/computational-biology-in-nordics/</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">)</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are currently a team of industrial scientists, researchers, and bioinformaticians. To join us, follow this link </span><a href="https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/get-involved/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/get-involved/</span></a><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. We welcome people from all academic levels. If you are a PI or associate professor, we encourage you to become a part of our advisory group - we aim for at least 4-5 board members from each Nordic region. The purpose of our advisory board is to guide and help our core team when need be, and there is no requirement to attend our core team meetings.</span></p><br><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There is much more we are planning to announce and share! </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For any queries, visit </span><a href="https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/ask-ncb/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/help/</span></a> or send us an email.<span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to hearing from you!</span></span><span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><div><font color="#000000"><i><b>Nordic Computational Biology Team</b></i></font><br></div><div><font color="#000000"><i><b>---</b></i></font></div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80)"><span id="m_-4598274210896475958m_-7688534713497462681m_-2273005999575070946m_2852097808089926577gmail-m_4813907215310377975gmail-m_-2764887427177520337m_-7324750829844908633m_-8339209995539534126gmail-m_8850536506451235984m_-5719343073121795685m_-2816859849038380332m_-4663066524050437883m_-7115648505257804613m_-4549966028027804609gmail-m_470233823963988906m_-6995429926669930701gmail-m_-1871858075119744027m_5144060608543004287m_-695278867795647246gmail-m_-6662950029001610238m_-2907329190555336755gmail-m_108257580848880122m_-7031069758883551096gmail-docs-internal-guid-1b165852-7fff-abc3-3126-d7909a05329e"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org" target="_blank">Website</a> | <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/nordic-compbio" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">LinkedIn</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy94PIIziV318QL1bF7Z8TA" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">YouTube</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> | </span><a href="http://twitter.com/NordicCompBio" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Twitter</span></a><br></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://nordic-compbio.iscbsc.org/news/" target="_blank">Subscribe to NCB Newsletter</a></p></span></span></div></div>