This provides for an international forum that will present cutting-edge computational biology applications and findings on interdisciplinary research such as molecular evolution, health, agriculture, microbes and tropical diseases and on sequence and structure analysis. The main objective of the InCoB is to provide a platform for experts and budding bioinformaticians to develop and apply computational methods for solving biological varying problems and to discuss and exchange ideas and thoughts on the development of bioinformatics in the Asia Pacific region.