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While for much of its history since the great famine of the eighteenth century Ireland has been synonymous with mass emigration, the 23 rd ISMB (Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology) meeting sailing into the regenerated “Silicon Docks” of Dublin last week was a homecoming of sorts for the annual gathering of the global Bioinformatics community.