European Conference on Computational Biology

Since 2007, the conference has been held jointly with Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) every second year.

[3][4] The first ECCB conference was held in October 2002 in Saarbrücken, Germany and was chaired by Hans-Peter Lenhof.

[3] In 2004, ECCB was jointly held with the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) conference for the first time.

[7] ISCB Board member and Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Alfonso Valencia considers ISMB/ECCB 2004 to be an important milestone in the history of ISMB: "it was the first one where the balance between Europe and the States became an important part of the conference.

In January 2007, ISMB and ECCB agreed to hold joint conferences in Europe every other year, beginning with ISMB/ECCB 2007.