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Call for Posters

The 7th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB 2016 is the conference's seventh year, building upon the success of the first six meetings in Niagara Falls, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC, Newport Beach, and Atlanta. ACM-BCB 2016 will be held in Seattle, WA, October 2-5, 2016.

This year, we also encourage the participation of physicians and medical researchers if they apply bioinformatics approaches to solve biomedical challenges in their work. We invite authors to submit results that fall into general areas of bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics, including but not limited to the following areas:

Important dates:

Poster submission deadline: 11:59pm (local time) on July 29, 2016
Notification of acceptance: August 2, 2016

Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmbcb2016
(Please choose poster track in the submission)

Format Requirement: Submitted abstracts should not exceed two pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. ACM-BCB's technical program committee will review all submissions on the basis of their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. The accepted posters of registered authors will have the option of being included in the proceedings published by ACM Digital Library.

(For actual posters to be presented at the conference, the sizes are limited to “36 x 48”.)

Lin Yang, University of Florida
Dongxiao Zhu, Wayne State University
ACM-BCB 2016 Poster Session Chairs


Important Dates
Call for Submission Deadline Notification of Acceptance
Papers May 31 Submit

July 15
Workshops March 15 March 31
Tutorials May 22 June 3
Posters July 29 August 2
Demos and Exhibits July 17 July 24

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