Call for Workshops Track Submissions

The 15^th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. The ACM-BCB 2024 conference will be held in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, PR China, Nov. 22-25, 2024. 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 focuses on the grand challenges for life science, bioscience and human health by showcasing leading-edge research on new technologies, methods, and tools around the processing, integration, analysis, mining, retrieval, interpretation, and presentation of data and determine how to transform data into meaningful information and actionable knowledge, with the aim of defining problems as well as solving problems in life science, biomedical discovery, public and population health, disease prevention, and healthcare delivery.

Examples of relevant workshop topics 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

Each workshop proposal can be up to 5 pages to include the following information:

• Motivation and rationale for the workshop
• Proposed workshop length: half day or a full-day with a lunchtime break
• Names and affiliations of main organizers
• A description of the workshop format, i.e. peer-reviewed proceedings, position papers and invited talks, panels, in-depth tutorials/demos:
• for peer-reviewed sessions, the planned peer-reviewed process should be detailed;
• for invited talks, a potential list of speakers should be provided;
• for panels, the main topic along with a list of panel questions to be addressed and a potential list of panelists should be provided;
• for teaching workshops, a draft syllabus should be provided;
• for demonstration workshops, a general outline of the planned activities and prerequisite materials needed should be described.
• A detailed timeline for inviting and accepting papers and presenters for the workshop should be presented:
• If there will be workshop proceedings, would you like the proceedings to appear alongside ACM-BCB proceedings?
• An important goal of the workshops is to engage participants via interactions and/or community building. Each proposal is expected to describe its plans to achieve this goal;
• Any other relevant information to your proposal workshop (e.g. has the proposed workshop be done in the past and in other venues? If so, when and where?)

For the continuing workshops (i.e., the workshops have been held at previous BCB conferences), a shorter proposal is expected and include the following information:

Proposed workshop length: half day, or a full-day with a lunchtime break

Names and affiliations of main organizers

A detailed timeline for inviting and accepting papers and presenters for the workshop should be presented:

If there is going to be a proceedings for the workshop, would you like the proceedings to appear alongside ACM-BCB proceedings?

Past year experiences, lessons learned, and plan to improve.

Any changes of plans compared to last year.

Individuals submitting workshops are requested to implement the proposed plan only after hearing about the final acceptance notification of the proposed workshop.

Submission Procedure

Each workshop proposal can be up to 5 pages. The proposers are requested to address all the details listed above in their proposal. Workshop proposals/descriptions will be published in the proceedings. Submitted proposals should comply with the requirements delineated on the ACM Master Article Template website.

Submissions are handled via OpenReview.

Important Dates:

Workshop proposals due: July 15, 2024
Notification of acceptance: July 29,, 2024
Workshops will be held on November 22, 2024

Workshop Co-Chairs:

Jinyan Li (jinyan.li@siat.ac.cn), Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology, CAS, China
Xuefeng Cui (xfcui@email.sdu.edu.cn), Shandong University, China
Wei Zhang (wzhang.cs@ucf.edu), University of Central Florida, USA