Representative scientists and researchers from most of the south american contries involved in this project ( which inclides 22 american nations plus Spain and Portugal). Representatives of other interantional societies and organizations of this scientific area, as the European  Molecular Biology Network (EMBnet) the Asian-Pacific Bioinformatics Network , APBioNet and the l International Society for Computational Biology, ISCB have also participated in the meeting.

Particularly, it needs to be higlighted the presence of Chris Sander ( MSKCC,NY,. USA), a world pioneering researcher in the starting and development of bioinformatics in the eighties, currently director of the Computational Biology Center at  the Sloan-Kettering Institute of New York.

The main aim of the SoIBio is to boost and spread the knowledge of bioinformatics in the south american region, emfasizing in the circulation, the organisation of workshops and coordinated advanced seminars, as well as a yearly scientific-technical meeting. Furthermore, the new society is aim to give support and b e a link with the national societies working in bioinformatics in every country of the region, as well as a resource for a better interaction between other international societies working in bioinformatics. ( as EMBnet, APBIOnet  and ISCB) SoIbio will work in the next months for the spreading in the different countries that take part in this initiative, inviting them to participate and to incorporate members both from the scientific and the professional world interested in investigation, teaching and promotion of this multi-discipline, essential to the analysis and understanding of genomical, biological and biomedical sciences.