Technological breakthroughs like high-throughput and single-cell sequencing are transforming life sciences and public health, generating unprecedented volumes of complex biological and medical data. Using this wealth of data to advance fundamental biological knowledge and significantly improve human health requires the continuous development of novel computational models and advanced analysis algorithms.

The International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences (ICCABS) serves as a premier international forum in bioinformatics and computational biology. We bring together leading academic researchers to present, exchange ideas, and discuss the latest, most impactful computational advances that are driving the next generation of bio and medical science.

Topics of Interest

Submissions are invited across the full spectrum of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

• Algorithms, Methods, and Data Infrastructure for Biomedical Sciences:
  • AI and machine learning methods, big data analytics, image processing, literature mining, databases and ontologies, data integration, high performance computing 
• Biological Systems and Modeling:
  • Biological modeling and simulation, molecular evolution and phylogenetics, sequence analysis, population genomics, structural bioinformatics, gene regulation, systems biology
• Translational, Clinical, and Population Informatics:
  • Gene expression and multi-omics, comparative genomics, genomic epidemiology, immunoinformatics, metagenomics, microbial and viral genomics.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit their research under one of the three tracks described below using EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs2026. 

Track 1: Papers. ICCABS 2026 invites submissions of extended abstracts (up to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) via the online submission system. Accepted papers will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics. Submissions should be prepared using the Springer LNBI templates and guidelines, and should not exceed 12 pages in LNCS/LNBI format. Selected submissions will be invited to special issues of the Journal of Computational Biology (JCB) or IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB) dedicated to the conference. Submissions should be prepared in PDF format.

Track 2: Posters. ICCABS 2026 invites submissions of poster abstracts of up to 300 words describing new or recently published research for the poster session. The submission of a PDF file is not required and only the title and abstract are needed. Selection will be based on the quality of the work and on potential interest of the work to attendees of the conference.

Track 3: Highlight talks. ICCABS 2026 invites submissions of abstracts for manuscripts that were published after November 1, 2024, or manuscripts that are "in press" at the time of submission and already linked on the journal website, for oral presentation at the conference. Selection will be based on quality and potential impact of the published work and on interest to the attendees of the conference. Submissions should consist of a single PDF file which includes a title, abstract, list of authors and their affiliations, name and email address of the presenting author, and a link to the published or "in press" paper. The abstract should be up to 300 words. 

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Key dates for Track 1

• Title and abstract submission: November 30, 2025 (11:59 PM, any time zone)
• Paper submission deadline: December 5, 2025 (11:59 PM, any time zone)
• Notification: December 29, 2025

Key dates for Tracks 2 and 3

• Poster and highlight talk submission: January 2, 2026 (11:59 PM, any time zone)
• Notification: January 5, 2026

Committees

General Chairs

• Ion Mandoiu - University of Connecticut 
• Sanguthevar Rajasekaran - University of Connecticut

Program Chairs

• Mukul Bansal - University of Connecticut
• Cynthia Gibas - University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Steering committee

• Sanguthevar Rajasekaran – University of Connecticut (Chair)
• Srinivas Aluru – Georgia Institute of Technology
• Reda A. Ammar – University of Connecticut
• Tao Jiang – University of California, Riverside
• Vipin Kumar – University of Minnesota
• Ming Li – University of Waterloo
• John Reif – Duke University
• Sartaj Sahni – University of Florida

Co-located Workshops

The conference will include special workshops on:

• Computational Advances in Metagenomics Research and Applications (CAMeRA)
• Computational Advances in Next-Generation Sequencing (CANGS)
• Computational Advances in Molecular Epidemiology (CAME)
• Computational Advances for Single-Cell Omics Data Analysis (CASCODA)
• Advances in Systems Immunology (ASI)

The workshops are independently organized, by invitation only. If you would like to inquire about the possibility of being invited, please contact the workshop chairs as soon as possible (Contact information TBA).

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to the program co-chairs (mukul.bansal AT uconn.edu and cgibas AT charlotte.edu)