<div dir="ltr"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">BioVis 2016</font></span></p><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">BioVis at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><font size="4">October 23rd, 2016</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-weight:700;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">#biovis</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:justify"></p><div style="text-align:center"><span style="line-height:15.6px"><br></span></div><div><span style="line-height:15.6px"><br></span></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><b>Important Dates:</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Paper submission (one-page IEEE abstract): April 29, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">BMC manuscript submission: May 6, 2016 </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Poster submission: August 26, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Design Contest submission: September 23, 2016</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0.1pt;margin-bottom:0.1pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">BioVis 2016 is the 6th </span><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology.</span><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">The meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.  It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (</span><a href="http://ieeevis.org/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://ieeevis.org</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (</span><a href="https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">).</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">We invite submissions of original research, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and redesign contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of </span><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">data visualization</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Paper and Contest submissions can only be submitted to the BioVis meeting at VIS. </span></p></font><br>All accepted abstracts for the conference will be linked on the BioVis website (<a href="http://www.biovis.net/">http://www.biovis.net</a>). All abstracts accepted into the conference will be considered for publication, once extended into papers, in the thematic series on Biological Data Visualization of BMC Bioinformatics (impact factor 2.6), as part of a two-round review process. We are currently working with IEEE on confirming the publishing model as described in this Call for Participation, i.e., an open access publication with BMC Bioinformatics. Should this model not be realized, the manuscripts will be indexed under IEEE.<font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Data Analysis and Design Contest entries that are accepted, and deemed to make a significant contribution to the field, will be invited to submit full manuscripts for inclusion in the BMC Bioinformatics journal.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><b>Submission Guidelines:</b></span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"> </span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Authors are required to submit a 1-page abstract for the conference due Apr 29th, and an extended, full BMC paper due May 6th. Note that due to copyright regulations, the 1-page abstract text must be completely different from the extended paper text (including the BMC-style paper abstract.) For the BMC manuscript, please use the templates provided on the </span><a href="http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">  website. When formatting the IEEE abstract, please use the template provided at:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html</span></a></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent"><b>Keynote Talk: </b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Sheelagh Carpendale</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">University of Calgary</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">General chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Paper chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Poster chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Publication chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Primer & challenges chair</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Highlights chair</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Data contest chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Design contest chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Francis Rowland, EBI, UK</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Industry and fundraising chair</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Website chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;margin-left:36pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Publicity chairs</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA</span></p></li></ul><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-weight:700;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Steering Committee</span></p><ul style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Kay Nieselt</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, University of Tuebingen, Germany</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.gehlenborg.com/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Nils Gehlenborg</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Harvard Medical School, USA</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/people/peopleid/41" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jessie Kennedy</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, Edinburgh Napier University, UK</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><a href="http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Jos Roerdink</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, University of Groningen, The Netherlands</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.62;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:7pt"><a href="http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~raghu" style="line-height:1.2;text-decoration:none"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">Raghu Machiraju</span></a><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;background-color:transparent">, The Ohio</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> State University, USA (Chair)</span></p></li></ul></font></div>