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Call for Workshop Proposals

The 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB 2018 is the conference's ninth year, building upon the success of the first eight meetings in Niagara Falls, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC, Newport Beach, Atlanta, Seattle and Boston.

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 Health Care
  • 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
  • Translational Bioinformatics
  • Visualization and Visual Analytics of Biological and Health Data

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

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 proposal deadline: March 31, 2018
Notification of acceptance: April 7, 2018


Workshop Co-Chairs:

Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Ka Yee Yeung, University of Washington Tacoma, USA

Important Dates
Call for Submission Deadline Notification of Acceptance
Papers May 20 June 11
Workshops March 31 April 7
Tutorials March 31 April 7
Highlights June 1 June 11
Posters June 13 June 20
Hotel Reservation cutoff date August 10

News

Event photos are online

September 9, 2018

Dr. Joshua C. Denny, today's keynote speaker, slides here

August 31, 2018

There are several Room changes, refer to updated program

August 31, 2018

NIH Grant Writing Workshop slides here

August 31, 2018

Travel Grant Information posted

August 29, 2018

IMLH rescheduled to August 30th at 12PM

August 29, 2018

Accepted Papers

August 27, 2018

Program Brochure

August 24, 2018

Join Funding Panel

August 24, 2018

ACM-BCB room rate at JW Marriot is available till August 10th

August 6, 2018

Accepted Posters list

July 27, 2018

Full schedule posted

June 24, 2018

Day 1 schedule posted

June 8, 2018

Updated Camera Ready Deadline- June 30

June 8, 2018

Program Committee listed

June 4, 2018

Accepted Workshops' links added

May 22, 2018

Registration Open

May 21, 2018

Revised Highlights deadline- June 1

May 11, 2018

Accepted Workshops are listed

April 29, 2018

Accepted Tutorials are listed

April 29, 2018

Updated Paper submission deadline- May 20

April 22, 2018

Sponsorship Benefits information available

April 18, 2018

Revised Workshop proposal deadline- March 31

March 22, 2018

Revised Tutorial submission deadline- March 31

March 22, 2018

Venue information is available

February 18, 2018

Call for Papers, Workshops, Posters, Tutorials, Highlights

February 12, 2018


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