 | BC6: BioCreative VI Challenge and Workshop DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Bethesda Bethesda, MD, United States, October 18-20, 2017 |
| Conference website | http://www.biocreative.org/events/biocreative-vi/workshop/ |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bc6 |
| Abstract registration deadline | September 10, 2017 |
| Submission deadline | September 10, 2017 |
Call for paper submissions to participate in the BioCreative VI Challenge and Workshop.
We invite submission of short papers about the BioCreative tracks (4-page) and BioCreative related topics (2-page).
Submission Guidelines
All works must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following categories are welcome:
- BioCreative Track Papers: Track participants should submit their work in the form of a short paper (up to 4 pages). See template with instructions here. Works will be selected for oral or poster presentations.
Submission deadline: Please follow the dates described in the track you are participating.
- BioCreative General Submission: BioCreative VI will host a general session to provide an opportunity to discuss related work to BioCreative topics, including data set preparation, evaluation, and biomedical information extraction. Then, we are soliciting submission of your bioNLP work that is related to any of thse topics in the form of a 2 page abstract (see template with instructions can be found here). Works will be selected for oral or poster presentations.
Submission deadline: September 10, 2017.
Committees
Program Committee
- Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA
- Donald Comeau, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Juliane Fluck, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany
- Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany
- Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Julien Gobeill, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
- Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA
- Sun Kim, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Martin Krallinger, Spanish National Cancer Centre, CNIO, Spain
- Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Fabio Rinaldi, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
Organizing committee
- Cecilia Arighi, University of Delaware, USA
- Andrew Chatr-aryamontri, Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, Université de Montréal, Canada
- Donald Comeau, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Kevin Cohen, University of Colorado, USA
- Juliane Fluck, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany
- Sumit Madan, Fraunhofer Institute for Algorithms and Scientific Computing SCAI, Germany
- Rezarta Islamaj Dogan, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Pascale Gaudet, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
- Julien Gobeill, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
- Lynette Hirschman, MITRE Corporation, USA
- Sun Kim, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Martin Krallinger, Spanish National Cancer Centre, CNIO, Spain
- Zhiyong Lu, National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), NIH, USA
- Fabio Rinaldi, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
- Patrick Ruch, Swiss Bioinformatics Institute, Switzerland
- Alfonso Valencia, Spanish National Cancer Centre, CNIO, Spain
- Cathy Wu, University of Delaware and Georgetown University, USA
Invited Speakers
- Patricia Flatley Brennan, RN, PhD. Director of the National Library of Medicine, NIH.
- Hongfang Liu, PhD. Professor of biomedical informatics in the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota.
Scientific Program
The scientific program includes the talks related to the individual tracks, a panel about Innovation in biomedical digital curation, a general session for BioCreative related topics, 2 keynote talks and poster session. The detailed agenda can be found here
Publication
BioCreative VI proceedings will be published online and will be available at the time of the meeting.
We will invite selected works for full publication in the Database Journal Special Issue for BioCreative.
Venue
The conference will be held on October 18-20, at DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel, Bethesda, Maryland USA
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to bcviworkshop@gmail.com
Sponsors
BioCreative workshop is sponsored by
NIH/MIGMS Conference grant 1R13GM109648-01A1
NIH/MIGMS Supplement 2R01GM08064