General Conditions

• Click here for conference/workshop registration.
• Each paper/poster must have at least 1 dedicated registration by June 21, 2017, otherwise it will not be included in the conference program and proceedings.
• A student cannot register at the student rate if she/he is the only author who registers for an accepted paper.
• If an author is an ACM/SIGBio member or ACM/SIGBio student member, he/she will get a discount, as specified in the following table.
• Extra page charges: $100 per page (up to 2 pages).
• For registration using checks, please make the checks payable to ACM and send the checks to:
  
• Cancellation requests received on or before June 22, 2017 are fully refundable less a processing fee of 10% of the amount paid. There will be no refunds after June 22, 2017. All cancellation requests must be in writing via email to pghosh@vcu.edu.
• For further questions regarding registration, please contact Dr. Preetam Ghosh (pghosh@vcu.edu).

Registration Fee Table
Conference registration covers the workshop costs.

Registration Type	By June 21, 2017	After June 21, 2017
ACM/SIGBio Member	680 USD	780 USD
Non-ACM/SIGBio Member	780 USD	880 USD
Student ACM/SIGBio Member	400 USD	500 USD
Student Non-ACM/SIGBio Member	500 USD	600 USD
Sunday only for ACM/SIGBio Members	310 USD	350 USD
Sunday only for ACM/SIGBio Student	200 USD	250 USD

Venue

ACM-BCB 2017 will be held at:

• Boston Marriott Cambridge
• 50 Broadway
• Cambridge, MA 02142
• www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/boscb-boston-marriott-cambridge
• Hotel: +1-617-494-6600
• Reserve: +1-888-236-2427

ACM-BCB Room Rate
The following room rate is valid for August 19, through August 24, 2017:

Room Type	Price
Single/double occupancy	$229.00

The discounted rate is available until July 31^st, 2017.

Reservations
Reservations can be made with Boston Marriott Cambridge at this link.

NSF-Sponsored Travel Award

ACMBCB2017 has obtained NSF travel grant to support up to 20 top young professionals (high school, undergraduate, graduate students, or post-doctoral fellows who received PhD after Jan. 01, 2017) in US-based institutions with $900 each. The applicants need to submit the following required information to award selection committee (Profs. May D Wang, Steve Z. Qin, and Anna Ritz) using email address acmbcb2017.travel@gmail.com. The email subject line should follow the format:

ACMBCB2017 NSF Travel Award Application from FirstName-LastName_InstituteName

The whole application needs to include two files with distinctive naming convention:
FirstName-LastName_InstituteName_File-xx.pdf
(xx=01 for applicant’s file, and xx=02 for letter of support from applicant’s institute)

1. Applicant’s File (Please Use the File Template Provided)
   • A. Research Proposal
     • a) A one page of NSF style project summary describing your research project or research interest aligning with bioinformatics, or computational biology, or health informatics in ACMBCB2017, plus ‘Intellectual Merit’ and ‘Broad Impact’ as required by NSF;
     • b) A one to two page(s) of description stating the research problem, short background survey, approaches, preliminary results (or key accomplishments) and discussions, a couple of figures, and a couple of references;
     • c) A short explanation on how ACMBCB2017 areas would benefit and impact your research; and
     • d) The paper or poster title/titles that is/are co-authored by the applicant and accepted by ACMBCB2017.
   • B. Bio-sketch (250 Words)

     A bio-sketch with applicant’s affiliation and photo in the template provided.

2. Letter of Support from Applicant’s Institute

   A letter of support from the applicant’s advisor/mentor (for graduate students or post-docs), or department program chair (for high school or undergrad students) that consists of:

   • a) Confirmation that the applicant is in good academic standing;
   • b) The suitability of the ACMBCB2017 program to the applicant’s research area; and
   • c) Ways this particular applicant would benefit from attending ACMBCB2017.

Please note that the applicants need to submit the camera-ready paper(s) before the NSF fund application submission deadline to be qualified for award review.

Important Dates:
Application deadline: June 30, 2017
Award notification: July 10, 2017

Once being selected by the committee, the NSF travel fund awardees need

• (a) to prepare a presentation PPT one week before ACMBCB2017, and present their research in ACMBCB2017 Young Professional Research Forum; and
• (b) to attend all sessions to interact with senior researchers/mentors/peers, and to share conference hotels as much as possible for travel reimbursement.

Visa

We would be happy to send you a visa support letter if you need one to attend ACM-BCB 2017.
These letters must come from ACM, and you can find the information to request your support letter at http://www.acm.org/sigs/volunteer_resources/conference_manual/visas. From the aforementioned link:

The Association for Computing Machinery does not issue formal invitation letters for visas to attend ACM sponsored conferences. We can however issue a visa support letter.

• ACM is able to provide visa support letters to attendees as well as authors with accepted papers, posters, or members of the conference committee.
• For visa support letters, refer all requests to supportletters@acm.org.ACM suggests posting this address on the conference web-site. Those requesting a letter should allow 7-10 business days to receive it. All requests are handled in the order they are received. The information below should be included with the request.

For Visa support letters, please send all requests to the Office of SIG Services supportletters@acm.org

• Name (as it appears on attendee’s passport) and mailing address
• The name of the conference attendees is registering for
• Attendee’s registration confirmation number (if available) OR
• Authors may indicate their paper title. Speakers can provide the title of their talk.
• Include a fax number or email address of where letter can be sent

ACM does not provide letters for transport of vendor or presenter equipment. ACM suggests shipping the materials insured to the conference facility.