ACM-BCB 2017 Call for Papers
Boston, MA,August 21-24 2017
acm-bcb.orgThe 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB 2017 is the conference's eighth year, building upon the success of the first seven meetings in Niagara Falls, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC, Newport Beach, Atlanta and Seattle.
ACM-BCB 2017 will be held in Boston, MA August 21-24, 2017. The conference is the premier conference dedicated to interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics. The past few decades have seen tremendous growth in the scale and complexity of biological and medical data including recent mainstream recognition of big data challenges. This conference serves to showcase leading-edge research on new technologies and techniques around gathering, processing, analyzing, and modeling of data and information for a variety of scientific, clinical, and healthcare applications, from bench to bedside.
In addition, this year ACM-BCB 2017 will be co-located with the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI).
ACM-BCB 2017 welcomes original submissions that have not been published or under review. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM-BCB conference proceedings and appear in the ACM Digital Library (note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with NIH and similar open-access policies, see authors.acm.org/main.html for more information). In addition, there is a separate Highlights track for authors who wish to present platform talks for papers that have already appeared in refereed journals; see the conference website for more information. Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
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Systems Biology
Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
Biological Modeling
Application to Healthcare Processes
Inferring Phylogenies and Haplotypes
Text Mining and Classification
Sequence Analysis and Genome Assembly
Knowledge Representation Applications
Protein Structure and Dynamics
Applications to Microbes and Imaging Genetics
Protein and RNA Analysis
Advancing Algorithms and Methods
Genomic Variation and Disease
Cancer Genomics
Big Data in Bioinformatics
Clinical Databases and Information SystemsSubmission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcb17
(Please choose the most appropriate track for the submission)Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). ACM-BCB's technical program committee will review all submissions on the basis of their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and relevance to the conference attendees. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the proceedings published by ACM Digital Library (Note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with NIH and similar open access policies, see http://authors.acm.org/main.html for more information.). Details for the conference can be found at the acm-bcb.org
The authors of selected papers will be invited to adapt their papers for being published in a special issue of IEEE/ACM Transaction on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), or a special issue of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics (J-BHI).
Important Dates:
Paper submissions due : April 10, 2017
Notifications sent to authors : June 7, 2017
Camera-ready papers due : June 21, 2017General Chairs:
Nurit Haspel, University of Massachusetts Boston
Lenore J. Cowen, Tufts UniversityProgram Chairs:
Amarda Shehu, George Mason University, USA
Tamer Kahveci, University of Florida, USA
Giuseppe Pozzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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