ECCB is the major European conference in computational biology and bioinformatics.

The conference covers computational methods for molecular biology that arise in the context of genomics and proteomics technologies in the fields of molecular biology, molecular medicine and pharmaceutics. Biological areas of interest include genomes and protein analysis, algorithms and phylogeny, transcriptomics, structural bioinformatics, proteomics, text mining, pathways and interactions, databases, systems biology and bioinformatics for diseases.

The conference will start in the late afternoon of Sunday, September 26, 2010 and it will be preceded by a one-day workshop and tutorial session. It will end on Wednesday, September 29 in the afternoon. The conference consists of a main track of keynote and contributed presentations, plus an additional track for industry presentations and software demos, together with extensive poster sessions. Contributed papers selected for oral presentation are published as a supplementary issue of the journal Bioinformatics.