ACM-BCB 2018
Call for Highlights Track Submissions
Washington, DC
August 29 – September 1, 2018
acm-bcb.org
The 9th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health
Informatics (ACM BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB
2018 is the conference's ninth year, building upon the success of the first
eight meetings in Niagara Falls, Chicago, Orlando, Washington DC, Newport
Beach, Atlanta, Seattle and Boston.
In addition to full papers for the proceedings, we are soliciting abstracts
for the Highlights Track, based on relevant papers published after January
1, 2018, or papers that are in press at the time of submission and are
already available electronically through a journal web site. Presentations
will be selected based on the following criteria: impact of the work on the
field, likelihood that the presentation will be of general interest for the
audience, and relevance of the topic to computational biology or biomedical
research.
Authors of accepted abstracts for the Highlights Track are expected to
present their work at the conference and must pay the registration fees to
attend the conference.
Submission format:
Interested authors should submit a single document with the following
information:
* Name, affiliation, and contact email of the presenting author.
* Bibliographic information of the published paper, including a stable URL.
* Abstract from the published paper, for review purposes only.
* Abstract for the highlights presentation, for publication in the
proceedings.
The document should cover the following:
- Summary of the advances in the paper, emphasizing relevance to the BCB
community
- Description of the broader implications of the methods and results
presented in the paper
- Future directions and new questions raised by the paper
In addition, if the paper is not freely available from the publisher or
pubmed, a PDF must be attached for review purposes.
Submission procedure:
Submissions are handled via EasyChair:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bcb18
(select “Highlights Track”).
Note that all co-authors of the presented papers must agree to the
submission. It is the responsibility of the submitter to enter all
co-author email addresses during the submission process. Email
notifications of the submission will be sent to all co-authors.
Important dates:
Submission deadline: June 01, 2018
Acceptance notification: June 11, 2018
Highlights Co-Chairs:
Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA
Xiaoqian Jiang, University of California at San Diego, USA
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