Call for Workshops Track Submissions

The 10^th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB 2019 is the conference's tenth year anniversary, building upon the success of the first nine meetings in Niagara Falls, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC, Newport Beach, Atlanta, Seattle, Boston, and Washington DC.

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:

• Analytical tools for phenomics and high throughput phenotyping
• Big data and predictive analytics in healthcare
• Brain map and computational neuroscience
• Clinical and health decision support systems
• Computational systems biology and biological network modeling
• Epigenomics, gene regulation and transcription
• Epidemiology and infectious disease modeling
• Genome and sequence analysis
• Healthcare data quality control, privacy, and security
• High performance computing (HPC) and parallel methods for computational biology
• Microbiomics, metagenomics, and metaproteomics
• Mobile health and sensor networks
• Population, evolution, and comparative genomics
• Protein and RNA - structure and function
• Proteomics and metabolomics
• Text mining of biomedical literature and clinical notes
• Tools and methods for precision agriculture
• Tools and methods for precision medicine
• Tools and methods for precision medicine
• Translational bioinformatics
• Visualization and visual analytics of biological and health data
• Deep learning in bioinformatics

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

• Motivation and rationale for the workshop
• Proposed workshop length: 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, a potential list of speakers should be provided;
• for panels, the main topic along with a list of panel questions to be addressed and 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 will be workshop proceedings, 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, PDF format). The proposers are requested to address all the details listed above in their proposal.

Submissions are handled via EasyChair(select “Workshop Track”).

Important Dates:

Workshop proposals due: March 15, 2019
Notification of acceptance: March 22, 2019

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Wei Zhang, University of Central Florida, USA
Ning Xia, Ohio State University, USA