Papers (abstract)
Submission of abstracts for full papers with a deadline of February 20th, 2026.
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ACM BCB 2026
The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) Workshops
Jun 30 2026Official workshop site Site reachable
ACM-BCB 2026 is the flagship conference of ACM SIGBio, moving to Europe for the first time to be held in Calabria, Italy, from June 30 to July 3, 2026. It promotes interdisciplinary research at the intersection of computer science, biology, health, and medicine, with a focus on big data, AI, and algorithms for bioinformatics, computational biology, and health informatics.
Key deadlines
Verified September 9, 2026Full paper
February 8, 2026
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Submission and decisions
Full paperKey deadline
February 8, 2026 · AoE
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Contribution paths
A strong submission should clearly identify its contribution and evaluate it appropriately.
Papers (full paper)
Submission of complete papers with a deadline of February 27th, 2026.
Workshops
Proposals for workshops with a deadline of February 8th, 2026.
Tutorials
Proposals for tutorials with a deadline of April 18th, 2026.
Highlights
Submission of highlights with a deadline of February 20th, 2026.
Posters
Submission of poster abstracts with a deadline of February 27th, 2026.
Posters (Late Submission)
Late submission of poster abstracts with a deadline of May 20th, 2026.
Research areas in scope
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Research Areas
Computational biologyBioinformaticsHealth informaticsArtificial intelligence for biomedicine (AI4Bio)Big data in biomedicineMachine learning in biology and medicineData miningStatistical methods in biologyGenomics and cancer evolutionProteomics and systems biologyClinical data analysisFederated learning and privacy-preserving AIExplainable AI in healthcareAntimicrobial resistance modelingBiomolecular design with generative AIBiomedical data governance and reuse
Policies worth checking twice
- Authors must comply with the updated ACM Authorship Policy as announced by the ACM Publications Board.
- Papers are subject to blind review (implied by standard conference practice and context of submission deadlines and notifications).
- Dual submission is not permitted (standard ACM policy, implied by context).
- Author lists cannot be changed after the submission deadline (standard ACM policy, implied).
- AI-generated content must be disclosed in accordance with ACM's AI use guidelines (implied by ACM Authorship Policy reference).
Official sources
Compiled from the official call for papers. The organizers’ pages remain authoritative.
Last verified September 9, 2026