Call for Highlights Track Submissions

The 15^th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is a premier dissemination forum for 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. The 2024 ACM-BCB conference is dedicated to promoting 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. ACM-BCB 2024 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 to full papers for the proceedings, we are soliciting abstracts for the Highlights Track, based on relevant papers published after January 1, 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 11 inch 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/2024/Highlights

Important Dates:

Submission deadline: Sep 10th, 2024
Acceptance notification: Sep 25th, 2024

Highlights Co-Chairs

Serdar Bozdag, University of North Texas, USA
Luca Giancardo, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA