The 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.  

Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Biomarker discovery, Biomedical databases and data integration, Biomedical text mining and ontologies, Biomolecular imaging, Comparative genomics, Computational genetic epidemiology, Computational proteomics, Data mining and visualization, Gene expression analysis, Genome analysis, Population genetics, High-performance bio-computing, Metagenomics, Phylogenetics and molecular evolution, Molecular modeling, and simulation, Next-generation sequencing data analysis, Pattern discovery and classification, Software tools and applications, Structural biology, Systems biology, AI and machine learning methods in biology and medicine, and Big data analytics in biology and medicine.

Paper Submission Guidelines

Extended abstracts (up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) should be submitted via the online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2022). All submitted work must be original and must not be simultaneously under consideration at any another journal or conference. Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the symposium. Submissions can be made to one of the following two tracks.

• Track 1: Submit up to 12 pages in LNCS format for (i) oral presentation at the conference and publication of the extended abstract in the Springer LNBI proceedings and (ii) invitation to submit a 30-50%-extended version toISBRA’22 special issues of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Journal of Computational Biology, Tsinghua Science and Technology or FGCS (Pending Approval).
• Track 2: Submit up to 12 pages in LNCS format for (i) oral presentation at the conference and (ii) invitation to submit a full-length paper to ISBRA’22 special issues of BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics or Neurocomputing (Pending Approval).

Key Dates

• Paper Submission Deadline: July 25, 2022 August 08, 2022 (11:59 pm, any time zone)
• Paper Notification: August 25, 2022 September 06, 2022
• Paper Final Version Due: September 7, 2022 September 14, 2022

Please note that the dates above may be subject to change; In case of any changes, please refer to the full call for papers available from the conference website at the following URL: https://mangul-lab-usc.github.io/ISBRA/ISBRA2022_CFP.pdf

Submission Guidelines for Short Abstracts, Highlights, and Posters

ISBRA 2022 invites submissions to the following tracks via the online submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isbra2022). Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the symposium.

• Short abstracts (Track 3): ISBRA 2022 invites submissions of short abstracts (between 8 and 10 pages in LNCS format) describing original unpublished research. Short abstracts will be either accepted for oral presentation and published in the LNBI proceedings or accepted for poster presentation. Authors of selected short abstracts will be invited to submit full-length papers to journal special issues.
• Late-Breakthrough abstracts (Track 4): ISBRA 2022 invites submissions of abstracts of up to 300 words describing unpublished research currently under review (by a journal or conference) for oral presentation at the conference. It is recommended, though not required, to also submit a PDF of the manuscript. Selection will be based on quality and potential impact of the published work and on interest to the attendees of the conference.
• Highlight abstracts (Track 5): ISBRA 2022 invites submissions of abstracts of manuscripts that were published after September 1, 2021, or manuscripts that are “in press” at the time of submission and are already linked on the journal website, for oral presentation at the conference. Selection will be based on quality and potential impact of the published work and on interest to the attendees of the conference. Submissions should consist of a title, authors, abstract, affiliation of presenting author, email address, and a link to the published paper. The abstract should be up to 300 words.
• Posters (Track 6): ISBRA 2022 invites submissions of poster abstracts of up to 300 words describing new or recently published research for the poster session. The submission of a PDF file is not required. Selection will be based on the quality of the work and on potential interest of the work to attendees of the conference.

Key Dates

• Short Abstracts Submission Deadline: Sept 07, 2022 (11:59 pm, any time zone)
• Late-Breakthrough Abstracts Submission Deadline: Sept 07, 2022 (11:59 pm, any time zone)
• Highlight Abstracts Submission Deadline: Sept 07, 2022 (11:59 pm, any time zone)
• Poster Submission Deadline: Sept 07, 2022 (11:59 pm, any time zone)
• Notification: Roughly 1 week after submission deadline

Committees

Program Committee Chairs

• Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)
• Mukul S. Bansal (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Serghei Mangul (University of Southern California, USA)

General Chairs

• Sagi Snir (University of Haifa, Israel)
• Alexander Zelikovsky (Georgia State University, USA)

Contact

Any questions about paper submission should be emailed to the program committee chairs (zcai AT gsu DOT edu, mukul.bansal AT uconn DOT edu, mangul AT usc dot edu).