In 2006 the Royal Society, in cooperation with the International Council for Science, the InterAcademy Panel on International Issues (now the IAP—the Global Network of Science Academies) and the . National Academy of Sciences, organized a workshop that surveyed trends in science and technology (S&T). The objective was to provide an independent contribution from the international scientific community to the 6th Review Conference of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) that was held in December of that year. .