From 8^th – 10^th December the 14^th Annual Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference took place in Aspen. At this conference members of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB) meet and exchange their know-how and expertise. IBM gave a talk concerning the “Stratification of prostate cancer patients based on molecular interaction profiles” at the Rocky Conference.

Furthermore an interview with IBM on artificial intelligence was published on 2^nd December 2016 in the Swiss French Newspaper L’Hebdo. For our French speaking followers, the transcript can be found here.

Members of the PrECISE consortium are currently working on submissions for the ISMB/ECCB Conference taking place from 21^st until 25^th July in Prague, Czech Republic. The team will also meet internally on the first day to discuss PrECISE related questions and challenges and the way forward.