ISCB-Africa ASBCB 2021: ISCB-Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics 2021 Virtual Event Virtual, South Africa, June 7-10, 2021 |
Conference website | https://www.iscb.org/iscbafrica2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscbafricaasbcb2021 |
Submission deadline | April 15, 2021 |
The International Society for Computational Biology and the African Society for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology are excited to bring you virtually ISCB-Africa ASBCB Conference on Bioinformatics, June 7-10 2021. The ISCB-Africa ASBCB virtual conference's multidisciplinary broad bioinformatics scope features the ASBCB Communities of Special Interest (learn more here) as the foundation of this scientific conference. The conference will foster fresh dialogues, collaboration, and learning opportunities.
Here is what to expect:
- Live and on demand sessions to benefit attendees from all time zones
- Live broadcast with question and answer sessions over the conference days
- Workshops and Tutorials
- Exclusive access to the on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations for viewing at your leisure after conference
- Live networking time to engage with the speakers and other participants
- Live chat feature to engage with other participants within the session room
- A networking café for video meet ups with colleagues, friends, or future collaborators
- Opportunity to explore the research exchange forum (poster hall) and engage with each author!
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. The following paper categories are welcome:
Original Research Submission Guidelines
All abstracts must be a maximum of 250 words (to appear in the conference online booklet) and should provide at the least the following information within them: background information, approach/methods, results and conclusions (actual headings within the abstract are not necessary). Authors may submit an additional paragraph of up to 250 words stating the relevance of the work for the purpose of convincing reviewers of the scientific content/validity; these additional 250 words will not be published and are for reviewing purposes only. Authors will be asked to select their preference of presentation (oral, oral & poster, or just poster) during the submission process.
Original Abstract Submissions for Oral Presentation Deadline is 15 April 2021.
Previously Published Research Submission Guidelines
Abstract submissions must be a maximum of 250 words (to appear in the online conference booklet) and should provide an explanation of how the work of the submitted paper(s) is impacting the field. Submission must highlight work that has been published between June 2018 - present. Authors will be asked to select their preference of presentation (oral, oral & poster, or just poster) during the submission process.
Submissions should include the following:
- For each presenter only one previously published research submission will be reviewed (the LAST will be taken by default). The same limitation applies for the last author (group). Publications can be grouped if it becomes clear how different publications will be combined in a talk. The maximal number of submissions per author/co-author is 5.
- Name/affiliation/email of submitter (assumed to be the presenter; note that the presenter cannot be changed because the identity and ability to present of that person will be an essential selection criterion).
- Names/affiliations/email of ALL coauthors (note: any name appearing on a published paper has to be added here). Note that all co-authors have to agree to the submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to guarantee that all co-author email addresses are correct (email notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors).
- 250-word limited abstract-like argument that explains the impact and importance of this work.
- Sources of original publication(s) (Year, Journal, Vol., pages).
- PDF with paper(s) (note: in case of the submission of 2 papers, both should be merged into one single PDF; all reviews will be based on the content of this PDF).
- Only PDF submissions are acceptable. The submission system is currently unable to handle ASCII, Word, LaTeX, or anything other than standard PDF. It is the responsibility of the submitter to verify that the PDF is completely viewable/printable by all major operating systems (LINUX, MacOS, Windows).
Previously Published Research Submission Deadline is 15 April 2021.
List of Topics
- Population Genomics in Africa (AfriPopGen): population genomics and variant interpretation relevant to African populations
- Pathogen
- Agricultural Bioinformatics
- Metaomics: multi-omics approaches in agriculture, health and diseases, and environmental research with a focus on both the laboratory and bioinformatic techniques and developments within the meta-omics (metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, metaproteomics and metabolomics)
- Structural Biology
- Systems Administration
- General Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Committees
Confernce Chairs
- Dominique Anderson, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI)
- Faisal Mohamed Fadlelmola, Centre for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Khartoum
Conference Steering committee
- Dominique Anderson, South African National Bioinformatics Institute (SANBI)
- Yakubu Bright Biigb, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Tech
- Alan Christoffels, University of the Western Cape
- Jean Baka Domelevo Entfellner, BecA-ILRI Hub
- Faisal Mohamed Fadlelmola, Centre for Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Faculty of Science, University of KhartoumAmel Ghouila, Exaptive, Inc., Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
- Bel Hanson, International Society for Computational Biology
- Janet Kelso, MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology, ISCB Conference Advisory Conference Chair
- Diane Kovats, International Society for Computational Biology
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to Bel Hanson at bhanson@iscb.org