Linköping, Sweden, June 5, 2004

• meeting chaired by Bo Servenius

• annual society meeting at annual conference

• economy before meeting- surplus SEK19,202.52

• account still maintained by Bengt Persson at Karolinska Institute; will pursue an official account in either Sweden or Finland (Arne Elofsson or Mauno Vihenen)

• free email registration at www.socbin.org

• current board: Servenius*, Jonassen, Lagergren, Liberles, Johnson*, Remm, Blom*, Vihenen, Vissing*, Oskarsson*

• Sevenius, Johnson not eligible for re-election

• president: Arne Elofsson elected

• Finland: Tapio Salakoski elected

• Denmark (1): Nikolaj Blom re-elected

• Denmark (2): Christian Ahrens elected

• Iceland: Gudmundur Thorissen elected

• Poland: decision to add a Polish member (Janusz Bujnacki) contacted by Arne Elofsson

• Bo Servenius and Olle Nerman elected as auditors

• 2005 annual meeting to be held in Tartu, Estonia, June 9-12, 2005, organized by Maido Remm

• suggestion to have more Nordic speakers at meetings

• possible sessions:

  • pharmacogenomics

  • SNPs

  • natural language processing

  • proteomics

  • bioinformatics and disease

  • population genetics

• poster talks should be before the poster session

• send email to participants to get feedback