| Submission Deadline | March 25, 2024 |
| Notification of Acceptance | May 1, 2024 |
| Final Version Due | May 12, 2024 |
| Conference Date | July 19-21, 2024 |
Call for Papers
2024 ISBRA Conference – July 19-21, 2024 (Kunming, China)
The 20th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Submissions presenting original research are solicited in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems.
Impact
As a premier ACM conference for interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, medicine, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics, over the past 13 years, ACM-BCB annual conference has risen to be among the top 20 most influential Bioinformatics and Computational Biology referred journals and conferences by Google Scholar. As of today, ISBRA has h5-index=28 and h5-median=50.
Transition to OpenReview & Double-Blind Review Process
To further improve the quality and the impact of ACM-BCB, starting from 2023, the organizing committee (OC) will adopt a fully open double-blind review process via OpenReview.net. It will not only enhance the transparency of the review process, but it will also improve the paper quality by enabling interactions among the authors, reviewers, and the research community.
Expansion of Partner Journals
We are also happy to announce exciting new partnerships with several learding journals in the field, which will publish selected original full-length research papers accepted by ISBRA 2024. Currently, our partner journals include:
- IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB)
- Patterns - open access journal from Cell Press in data science
- iScience - open access journal from Cell Press in life, physical, earth, and health sciences
The 2024 ISBRA Conference welcomes original submissions that have not been published and are not presently under review. You can submit a Full Paper (8-10 pages) or a Short Paper (4-5 pages), where the page limit includes references (use 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. In any case, the manuscript and the appendix / supplementary material (if any) should be submitted as a single PDF document.
Accepted papers will be published in the 2024 ISBRA Conference Proceedings and appear in the ACM Digital Library (note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with those of the NIH and are similar to open-access journal policies). Selected full-length original research papers will be invited for publication in special issues of our partner journals.
In addition, there is a separate Highlights track for authors who wish to present platform talks for papers that have recently appeared in refereed journals; see the Call for Highlights for more information.
Submitted manuscripts should comply with the requirements delineated on the ACM Master Article Template website. ACM-BCB's technical program committee will review and assess all submissions on the basis of their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and relevance to conference attendees. In order to submit their manuscripts, authors should use the OpenReview. All submissions will be peer-reviewed in a double-blind review process by program committee members. Please ensure that the author list is not shown in the submitted manuscript. However, the author list should be final at the time of submission, and any subsequent changes to the author list post-submission must be approved by the program chairs.
The topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
- AI and Machine Learning in Medicine and Healthcare
- Computational Drug Discovery
- Sequence Analysis
- Single cell sequencing
- Omics Data Integration and Analysis
- Genomic Variation and Disease
- Haplotypes and Population Genomics
- Phylogenetics
- Protein and RNA Analysis, Structure, and Dynamics
- Metagenomics and Algorithms for Microbiomes
- Cancer Genomics
- Pharmacogenomics
- Systems Biology
- Biological Networks and Integrative Analysis
- Multimodality modeling
- Imaging Informatics
- Imaging Genomics and Radiation Genomics
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and text mining
- Large language model (LLM) for healthcare applications
- Data Integration, Harmonization, and Ontology
- Computational Phenotyping
- Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
- Clinical Databases and Information Systems
- Data Security and Privacy
- Knowledge Representation Applications
- Biomedical and Health Data Visualization
- Public Health and Population Health Informatics
- Infectious Disease Networks and Computational Epidemiology
- Social Network Analysis for Health Applications
- No-Boundary Thinking in Bioinformatics
Paper submission
Please submit your paper to OpenReview.net using the link below:
https://
[Important note]
- Please select your paper type: full-length regular paper (8-10 pages) or short paper (4-5 pages)
- If you are submitting a full paper, please indicate whether you want your paper to be considered for potential publication in one of the ISBRA 2024 partner journals if accepted. Please note that this option only applies to full-length regular papers and short papers will only be published in the ACM-BCB proceedings. Furthermore, mandatory article processing charges (APC) may apply depending on the partner journal.
Important Dates:
(all submissions close 11:59pm Anywhere On Earth [AOE])Paper submissions due:
Notifications sent to authors:
Camera-ready papers due: July 15, 2024
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