ISMB 2024: ISCB's Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 2024 Palais des Congrès de Montréal Montreal, Canada, July 12-16, 2024 |
Conference website | https://www.iscb.org/ismb2024 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismb2024 |
Proceedings Deadline | January 25, 2024 |
Abstracts for Talks and Posters Deadline | April 19, 2024 |
Late Posters Deadline | May 20, 2024 |
The International Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is an annual event organized by the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). This flagship meeting of the ISCB is renowned as the world's largest conference focused on bioinformatics and computational biology. ISMB 2024 showcases the latest international developments in the field and driving forward the future of this dynamic area of research and the involvement of the ISCB's Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) enhances the exceptional scientific program.
The 2024 ISMB conference will be the 32nd edition and offers the unique feature of allowing participants to attend either in-person in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, or virtually through a state-of-the-art virtual interface.
Participants can look forward to a rich program that includes:
- Training workshops and tutorials: Sessions designed to enhance participants' knowledge and skills in specific bioinformatics and computational biology areas.
- Student Council Symposium: A dedicated symposium where students can showcase their research and interact with peers and experts.
- Live and on-demand sessions: Talks and presentations accessible live and available for on-demand viewing, accommodating attendees from different time zones.
- Scientific talks: Over 500 scientific talks on various topics within bioinformatics and computational biology.
- Live Q&A and chat features: Interactivity features that enable attendees to engage with speakers and other participants during sessions.
- Research Exchange Forum: A platform for researchers to present their work, either face-to-face or through the virtual platform.
- Face-to-face networking events: Opportunities for in-person attendees to connect and network.
- Virtual attendee profile and matchmaker features: Tools to facilitate networking and making new connections within the virtual platform.
- One-on-one meetings: Opportunities to schedule private meetings with speakers, presenters, exhibitors, and sponsors to learn more about their work.
- Access to on-demand repository: Exclusive access to recorded talks and poster presentations for viewing after the conference.
Submission Guidelines
Proceedings
ISMB 2024 invites submissions of full papers (not abstracts) consisting of new, unpublished work, reporting theoretical, computational, and statistical advances in computational biology and its intersections with other fields.
Submissions are encouraged to report on advances in algorithm development and optimization, data structures, data visualization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, text mining, statistical inference, database and ontology development, image analysis, citizen and open science, etc. to analyze all types of biological data.
While we encourage submissions in new and emerging areas, we expect that the majority of submissions addressing topical biological domains will fall into one of the areas below. Please note during the EasyChair submission process you will: 1) select your "Area" (list below) and 2) select the COSI(s) most suited for the presentation of your research from within the area. (learn more about COSIs here).
For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 15, 2024. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.orgAll presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.
Abstracts – Talks and Posters
We invite abstracts for research that is topical to bioinformatics and computational biology, which is in progress (unpublished, formerly Late-Breaking Research) or previously published within the last 18 months (previously Highlights Track) for consideration for oral and/or poster presentation.
Your abstract should be submitted to the Communities of Special Interest (COSI) Track that most accurately reflects the area of the work. (You will have the option to identify two other COSI tracks that may also be suited to your research area during your submission).
Talks and posters are organized according to scientific topics which are covered by the COSIs listed below. Please note, abstracts are not limited to COSI topics and if the topic of your submission falls outside the listed COSIs you can choose the "General Computational Biology" area. Your abstract should convey a scientific result and should not be an advertisement for any commercial software package.
Multiple talks: The same talk is not permitted to be given more than once as an oral presentation at ISMB. Research may presented as both a talk and poster. Having the same person deliver two (or more) different talks is possible (and not prohibited), but it is not encouraged. This allows for many people from one lab to present the work of the lab. A presenting author may present more than one poster although not in the same Poster session we encourage labs to involve multiple attendees.
For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 15, 2024. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.org
All presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference. The pre-recorded talk will be available shortly after the live presentation to provide faster and more seamless access to the conference content for virtual participants.
List of Proceedings and Abstract Areas
Proceedings Areas
- Bioinformatics Education and Citizen Science
- Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes
- Biomedical Informatics
- Evolutionary, Comparative and Population Genomics
- Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research
- Genome Privacy and Security
- Genome Sequence Analysis
- Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function
- Regulatory and Functional Genomics
- Systems Biology and Networks
- General Computational Biology*
*You are encouraged to submit to one of the other 10 thematic areas. If you feel your contribution is at the intersection of many fields, please pick one. If you still want to submit to this area, you will be asked to explain why. Please note that the submissions in this area and others are likely to be moved, subject to chairs’ considerations.
Abstract Talk and Poster Areas
- 3DSIG
- Bio-Ontologies
- BIOINFO-CORE
- BioVis
- BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
- CAMDA
- CompMS
- Education
- Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research
- Evolution and Comparative Genomics
- Function
- General Computational Biology
- HitSeq
- iRNA
- MLCSB
- MICROBIOME
- NetBio
- RegSys
- SysMod
- Text Mining
- TransMed
- VarI
Committees
Conference Chairs
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Aïda Ouangraoua - Canada Research Chair, Computational and Biological Complexity; Full Professor, Department of Computer Science,Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
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Karin Verspoor - Dean, School of Computing TechnologiesRMIT University, Australia
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BF Francis Ouellette - CEO, Origin Bioinformatics, Canada
Steering Committee
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Publication
ISMB 2024 proceedings will be published in Bioinformatics Advances
by Oxford University Press
Venue
The conference will take place in the Palais de Congrés de Montréal
The address is:201 Av. Viger OMontréal, QCH2Z 1X7
Contact
All questions should be emailed to Bel Hanson at events@iscb.org