Call for Highlights Track Submissions

The 16th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2025) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio (https://acm-bcb.org/). It was held for the first time outside of USA in Shenzhen China from Nov 22nd to 25th 2024, after past successes in many USA locations. The ACM-BCB 2025 will be held back in USA at Philadelphia, PA from October 12-15, 2025. This year, the conference aims to promote AI for Bio-medicine (AI4Bio), including cutting-edge AI advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, statistics, biology, and medicine.

In addition to full papers for the proceedings, we are soliciting abstracts for the Highlights Track, based on relevant papers published after September 10, 2024, or papers that are in press at the time of submission and are already available electronically through a journal web site. Presentations will be selected based on the following criteria: impact of the work on the field, likelihood that the presentation will be of general interest for the audience, and relevance of the topic to computational biology or biomedical research.

Authors of accepted abstracts for the Highlights Track are expected to register for the conference and present their work.

Submission Format

Interested authors should submit a single PDF document with the following information:

Cover page

• Name, affiliation, and contact email of the presenting author.
• Bibliographic information of the published paper, including a stable URL.
• Original abstract of the published paper, for review purpose only.

1-page abstract for ACM-BCB

• Prepare a 1-page abstract to be considered for highlights presentation at ACM-BCB. Please use the ACM Master Article Template on 8.5 x 11inch paper. The abstract should cover the following:
• Summary of the advances in the paper
• Description of the broader implications of the methods and results presented in the paper, emphasizing their significance as well as their relevance to the BCB community

Optional

• If the paper is not freely available from the publisher or PubMed, a PDF must be attached for review purposes.

Submission Procedure

• Submissions are handled via OpenReview.
• Note that all co-authors of the presented papers must agree to the submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to enter all co-author email addresses during the submission process. Email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors.
• Accepted highlight submissions will be invited for either oral presentation or poster presentation in relevant technical sessions.
• Please submit your highlight to OpenReview.net using the link below:
• https://openreview.net/group?id=ACM.org/BCB/2025/Highlights

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Aug 11th, 2025 Aug 30th, 2025

Highlights Co-Chairs

Nidhal Bouaynaya, Rowan University, USA
Rui Kuang, University of Minnesota, USA
Ranadip Pal, Texas Tech University, USA