Cameron Jack, Robert Buckley and Zhi-Ping Feng attended the ABACBS (Australian Bioinformatics And Computational Biology Society) annual conference in Brisbane. The invited speakers included:

• metabolomics specialist Ute Roessner from the University of Melbourne
• computational evolutionary biologist Simon Ho from the University of Sydney
• bioinformatician and plant evolutionary biologist Kate Hertweck from the University of Texas at Tyler
• expert in bioinformatics and cancer genomics, Andreas Schreiber, Centre for Cancer Biology, Adelaide
• microbial bioinformatics specialist Nouri Ben Zakour
• statistical bioinformatician and exponent of R/Bioconductor, Matt Ritchie from WEHI, Melbourne