| Call for | Submission Deadline | Notification of Acceptance |
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| Papers (abstract) | - | |
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| Workshops | ||
| Tutorials | July 7, 2025 | July 21, 2025 |
| Highlights | - | |
| Posters | September 3, 2025 |
September 5, 2025 |
Call for Papers
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.
Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)
- Haplotypes and Population Genomics
- Computational Drug Discovery
- Omics Data Integration and Analysis
- Genomic Variation and Disease
- Phylogenetics
- Protein Analysis, Structure, and Dynamics
- Imaging and Radiation Genomics
- Metagenomics and Microbiomes
- Pharmacogenomics
- Biological Networks and Systems Biology
- Knowledge Graphs
- AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare
- Explainable AI and AI Interpretability
- Natural Language Processing (NLP)
- Large Language Model (LLM) for Health
- Semantic Representation of LLMs
- Data Harmonization and Ontology
- Computational Phenotyping
- Knowledge Representation Applications
- Multimodality Biomedical Data Analysis
- Biomedical and Health Data Visualization
- Wearable Sensor Informatics
- Computational Epidemiology
- Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
- Data Security and Privacy
- Social Media Analysis for Healthcare
Important Dates: (all submissions close at 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth [AOE])
ACM Publications Policies
By submitting your article to an ACM Publication, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.
Please ensure that you and your co-authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and we have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of our published authors. We are committed to improve author discoverability, ensure proper attribution and contribute to ongoing community efforts around name normalization; your ORCID ID will help in these efforts.
Submission Guidelines:
The ACM-BCB 2025 Conference invites original submissions not published, nor currently under review elsewhere. Authors can submit regular papers of 8-10 pages, including references, formatted in the double-column ACM SIG conference format. While the authors are allowed to include appendices (or supplementary information) beyond the page limit, please note that it is up to the reviewer whether the additional material will be considered in the overall evaluation. Manuscripts should comply with the requirements delineated on the ACM Master Article Template website.
Please submit your papers through Open Review. Submissions will be evaluated by the ACM-BCB 2025 Technical Program Committee based on originality, technical soundness, significance, clarity of presentation, and relevance to the conference audience.
There is a mandatory abstract submission deadline (see Important Dates). This step allows the Technical Program Committee to begin assigning reviewers in advance of the full paper deadline. After the abstract deadline, new submissions will not be accepted; however, authors may continue to revise their full paper until the final paper deadline. Please ensure the abstract registration closely aligns with full paper submission in terms of title, author list, and abstract content. "Placeholder" abstract registrations without meaningful descriptions may be desk-rejected. While minor edits to the abstract are allowed before the full paper submission deadline, any substantial changes to the title or abstract content risk being removed without consideration. The author list should be final at the time of full paper submission, and any subsequent changes to the author list post-submission must be approved by the Program Chairs.
ACM-BCB 2025 will follow a double-blind review process: reviewers will not have access to author identities, and authors will not know the identities of their reviewers. Authors should write their submissions in a way that does not reveal their identity. This includes referring to their own prior work in the third person, and avoiding acknowledgments, grant numbers, or links to personal or institutional GitHub repositories. If code is included in the submission, it must also be anonymized. Authors may use services such as Anonymous GitHub (https://anonymous.4open.science/) to share code while preserving anonymity.
Submission is permitted for work that has previously appeared as a preprint or technical report. However, to maintain anonymity, we recommend not citing the preprint in the submission. While reviewers may independently come across such public versions, their availability does not constitute a violation of the double-blind policy. Reviewers are explicitly instructed not to actively seek out author identities through external sources.
Accepted papers will be published in the Conference Proceedings in the ACM Digital Library. In 2024, 71 out of 204 submissions were published in the ACM digital library. Additionally, separate Highlights Track is for authors who wish to share their recent journal articles, and Posters with Rapid FIRE are for those who will share recent research progress.
All information related to submitted manuscripts will be treated as confidential throughout the review process. Program committee members (i.e., Program Chairs, Area Chairs, Reviewers) are requested to disclose any conflicts of interest through OpenReview. A committee member will be considered conflicted if they have close professional or personal ties to any of the authors (e.g., recent collaboration, same institution, advisor/advisee relationship). Conflicted committee members will not participate in the review, discussion, or decision-making process for any paper with which they have a conflict. In cases where a Program Chair has a conflict of interest with a submission, all decisions related to that paper will be made independently by the other, non-conflicted Program Chair(s), without input from the conflicted individual.
Partnering Journals:
Extended versions of selected papers will be invited for publication in a special issue of partnering journals such as (pending for approval):
- IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Big Data Mining and Analytics
- ACI-Applied Clinical Informatics Journal
- IET Systems Biology
- Methods
- IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics
- Future Generation Computer Systems
- Tsinghua Science and Technology
- Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences
- Health Information Science and Systems
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