| Description: | The CBI Association, established in 1981, sponsored nearly two hundred meetings, such as lectures, seminars, and symposia on chemical computing, molecular biology, and informatics during the past two decades. All of these activities were financially supported by members of the CBI Company association, which included a wide range of leading Japanese companies in the fields of pharmaceuticals, chemicals and computers as well as informatics. Hitherto, this association stimulated Japanese academic and industrial activities related to computer-aided drug design, protein engineering, structure-based biology, biochemical (DNA and protein) chips, biocomputing, applications of pattern recognition, artificial intelligence and the Internet, computational toxicology, and genomic technologies. In April 2000, the CBI Association changed its structure and name to become the CBI Society with a new mandate to enhance its activities on the basis of the previous association and to evolve towards the new era of biotechnology in the 21st century. The executive team of the CBI Society comprises leading scientists from universities, industrial laboratories, and national research institutes. The participants of the previous meeting is approximately 400. |
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