Please fill the highlighted text with your information and email this letter to gfs@big.ac.cn. An invitation letter with an official heading & stamp will be generated for you for the VISA purpose. In the email subtitle, please indicate “Invitation of 7th GPB Omics & Bioinformatics Frontiers Symposium (GFS2023)”. Please also indicate whether a scanned copy or an original hard copy of the invitation is needed in the email.

Dr. XXX
[Affiliation]
[Address1]
[Address2]
[City, Province/State postal code]
[Country]
[Phone number]
Subject: Invitation Letter for Visa Application

Dear Dr. XXX,

On behalf of the Organizing Committee, I extend an invitation to you to attend the 7th GPB Omics & Bioinformatics Frontiers Symposium (GFS2023) being held on August 02–05, 2023 in Beijing, China. 

The GFS2023 is hosted by the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation, together with the Genetics Society of China, organized by the Editorial Office of Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics (GPB), and co-organized by the Genome Informatics Committee and Biological Data Resources Committee of the Chinese Society for Bioinformatics and Beijing Bioinformatics Research Society. This symposium series was first launched in 2012 and our continued goals are to host in-depth discussions with outstanding scholars who advance the frontiers of omics and bioinformatics and to foster future collaborations among all attendees. Four themes are included in this year’s symposium: “Fine Genome Assembly and Chinese Gene Nomenclature, Omics and Big Data for Medicine, AI and Application of Omics Data, and Frontiers and Applications of Omics Technologies”. 

Please visit the journal website (http://gpb.big.ac.cn) for more information and plan your trip ahead of time. 

This letter is to confirm that 
NAME (exact spelling with your passport)
GENDER: 
DATE OF BIRTH: 
NATIONALITY: 
PASSPORT NUMBER: 
will be attending the 7th GPB Omics & Bioinformatics Frontiers Symposium (GFS2023), hosted by the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation for a business trip during August 02–05, 2023, and will require a SINGLE/MULTIPLE entry visa.
We also confirm that [your affiliation] will cover all financial expenses incurred by [firstname lastname] whilst in China.

Please feel free to contact me at the Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation, Building 104, No.1 Beichen West Road, Chaoyang District, Beijing 100101, Tel: +86 (10) 8409-7425 if you have any questions.

Thank you for your assistance in granting a visa for [firstname lastname].

Sincerely,
Jun Yu, Ph.D.
Chair, the 7th GPB Omics & Bioinformatics Frontiers Symposium
Editor in Chief, Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics
Emeritus Professor, Beijing Institute of Genomics, Chinese Academy of Sciences / China National Center for Bioinformation