Her work has won best paper awards at the 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (2007) and the 11th ACM International Conference on Hypertext. In 2002 she was honoured by Sun Microsystems for her significant achievements in advancing Life Science Computing. She has given keynotes in many forums, including international conferences on: Digital curation, e-Social Science, Grid Computing, Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology, Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing, Hypertext and Hypermedia, Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC), Artificial intelligence, Systems Biology, Discovery Science, the Semantic Web, International World Wide Web Conference and Medical Informatics.