 ISMB celebrated its 20th meeting with ISMB 2012 , held in Long Beach , California . This event attracted around 1 @,@ 600 delegates , submitting 268 scientific papers . Richard H. Lathrop and Lawrence Hunter presented a special keynote presentation , looking back at previous ISMB meetings and attempting to predict where the field of bioinformatics may head in the future . ISMB / ECCB 2013 was held in Berlin , Germany and was attended by around 2 @,@ 000 delegates , submitting 233 scientific papers . 
