 The success of the first conference prompted the announcement of a second ISMB conference at the end of the meeting . ISMB 1994 was initially planned to be held in Seattle . However , a competing meeting forced ISMB to change venues at short notice . The conference was held at Stanford University in August 1994 and was organised by Russ Altman , a research scientist at Stanford University School of Medicine . To emphasise the international aspect of the conference , ISMB 1995 was held at Robinson College , Cambridge . ISMB 1995 also marked a shift in the focus of the conference . ISCB Board member and Director of the Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute Alfonso Valencia has stated that , in 1995 , " the conference changed from a computer science @-@ based conference to a point where everyone realized that , if you want to make progress , there has to be more focus in biology . " 
