Call for Highlights Track Submissions

The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2026) is the flagship conference of ACM SIGBio. It will move for the first time to Europe and will be held in Calabria, Italy from June 30 to July 3, 2026. The conference aims to promote big data, AI and algorithms for health and biomedicine including cutting-edge advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, biology, health and medicine. The conference will be hosted at University of Calabria Congress Center.

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 have a rapid fire presentation. The presenting author is required to register to the conference.

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Feb 20th, 2026