List of Workshops

MAHA	International Workshop on Methods and Applications in Healthcare Analytics
CNB-MAC	3rd International Workshop on Computational Network Biology: Modeling, Analysis, and Control
BigLS	4th ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences
pSALSA	Workshop on Parallel Software Libraries for Sequence Analysis
ParBio	5th Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine
BrainKDD	The 3rd International Workshop on Data Mining and Visualization for Brain Science
TDA-Bio	International Workshop on Topological Data Analysis in Biomedicine
RRoBiN	Robustness and Reproducibility in High-throughput Biological Data Analysis Canceled
Pheno-i	Pheno-informatics Workshop Canceled

Call for Workshop Proposals

The 7^th 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.

We invite submissions of workshop proposals on a broad range of topics of interest to the ACM SigBio research community. Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Each workshop proposal can be up to 6 pages to include the following information:

• Motivation and rationale for the workshop
• Proposed workshop length: one-half day, or a full-day with a lunchtime break
• Names and affiliations of main organizers
• A description of the workshop format, i.e. peer-reviewed proceedings, position papers and invited talks, panels, in-depth tutorials/demos:
  • For peer-reviewed sessions, the planned peer-reviewed process should be detailed;
  • For invited talks, names of a list of potential list of speakers should be provided;
  • For panels, the main topic along with a list of panel questions to be addressed, along with names of a potential list of panelists should be provided;
  • For teaching workshops, a draft syllabus should be provided;
  • For demonstration workshops, a general outline of the planned activities and prerequisite materials needed should be described.
• A detailed timeline for inviting and accepting papers and presenters for the workshop should be presented.
• If there is going to be a proceedings for the workshop, would you like the proceedings to appear alongside ACM-BCB proceedings?
• An important goal of the workshops is to engage participants via interactions and/or community building. Each proposal is expected to describe its plans to achieve this goal.
• Any other relevant information to your proposal workshop (e.g. has the proposed workshop be done in the past and in other venues? If so, when and where?).

The proposers are requested to implement the proposed plan only after hearing about the final acceptance notification of the proposed workshop.

Submission procedure:

Each workshop proposal can be up to 6 pages (11pt Times New Roman, single line spacing, 1” page margins on all sides). The proposers are requested to address all the details listed above in their proposal. The proposal should be submitted as a single PDF by email to the 2016 ACM-BCB Workshop chair, Ananth Kalyanaraman (ananth@eecs.wsu.edu) using the subject: “ACM-BCB 2016 Workshop Proposal” on or before the due date. For further questions, please contact the workshop chair.

Important Dates:

Workshop proposal deadline: March 15, 2016 (*Firm*)
Notification of acceptance: March 31, 2016