[Ieee_vis] CFP: BioVis at ISMB/ECCB 2026 — Proceedings deadline Jan 20

[van den Brandt, Astrid]

(Apologies for cross-posting)

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BioVis 2026 Call for Papers

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BioVis at ISMB/ECCB 2026
July 16, 2026
Washington, DC, USA

CfP:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/proceedings

**Submission deadline: Jan 20, 2026 (AoE)**

This call highlights the upcoming ISMB Proceedings submission deadline
on January 20, 2026 for BioVis at ISMB/ECCB 2026.

BioVis is a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2026,
taking place on July 16, 2026, in Washington, DC, USA.


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[Aims and Scope]

The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges
for data visualization techniques that enable researchers to gain
insight from large and highly complex data sets.
The BioVis Interest Group organizes the interdisciplinary symposium
BioVis, covering all aspects of visualization in biology.

The event 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, and bioinformatics and
biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research.

We invite submissions of original research articles
as well as poster and talk submissions.

More information can be found on the BioVis website:
http://biovis.net/2026/ismb/


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[Symposium Format]

BioVis at ISMB/ECCB 2026 will be a one-day, single-track event, featuring
keynotes and invited talks, paper sessions, highlight talks, and
posters and demos.

Contributions are welcome on all aspects of data visualization in
biology, from molecular to population biology,
including, but not limited to:
- Genome and sequence data
- Multivariate omics data 
- Phylogenetic data
- Biological networks and pathways
- Biological ontologies
- Macromolecular structures (e.g., protein or RNA structures)
- Biological image data, such as microscopy data
- Integration of image and omics data for systems biology
- Modeling and simulation of biological systems
- Neurobiology and developmental biology
- Systems and software frameworks
- Biological workflows or collaborative processes
- Usability of visualization by biologists
- Biological atlases and metadata
- Processes for collaboration between biology and visualization
- Integrating visualization and machine learning for biological analysis


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[Submission Criteria]

**Submission deadline: January 20, 2026 (23:59 AoE)**

Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the
ISMB Proceedings. If accepted, manuscripts will be published
in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (impact factor 6.9).

Authors of accepted papers will be required to present their work
at the symposium in a talk.
Authors of rejected papers will be invited to submit a poster.


**Submission Guidelines**

Authors are required to submit a full paper through the ISMB
proceedings submission site and must adhere to the submission
guidelines outlined on the same page. 

Submission site and guidelines:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/proceedings

During submission, please make sure to specify "BioVis" as the
"TOPIC" (or primary COSI) of your submission to ensure your
manuscript is assigned to our COSI.

We encourage the use of digital video to enhance paper submissions,
particularly if part or all of the work addresses interactive
techniques.
Please note that OUP does not support videos as supplementary
materials, so videos must be hosted elsewhere (e.g., YouTube).


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[Important Dates]

In addition to proceedings papers, BioVis at ISMB/ECCB 2026 will also
accept talk and poster submissions.

Abstracts are due April 9, 2026
Late posters deadline: May 7, 2026

Deadlines and Notifications for ISMB Proceedings:
- Submission deadline: January 20, 2026
- Conditional acceptance notification: March 10, 2026
- Revision deadline: March 24, 2026
- Final acceptance notification: April 2, 2026

See ISMB 2026 Key Dates for full details:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/key-dates

For full submission guidelines and important dates, please refer to:
https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026


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[General Chairs]

Zeynep Gumus, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Qianwen Wang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA


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Kind regards,
The BioVis 2026 Committee