ISMB/ECCB 2025: 33rd Conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology and the 24th European Conference on Computational Biology ACC Liverpool Liverpool, UK, July 20-24, 2025 |
Conference website | https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2025/home |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ismbeccb2025 |
The annual international conference on Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) is the flagship meeting of the International Society for Computational Biology (ISCB). The 2025 meeting is the 33rd ISMB conference, which has grown to become the world's largest bioinformatics and computational biology conference. Joining forces with the European Conference on Computational Biology (the 24th Annual Conference), ISMB/ECCB 2025 will be the year's most important computational biology event!
The international meeting will be held in-person at the ACC Liverpool—a leading conference and event venue in the UK—and virtually through ISCB's Nucleus platform.
The principal focus of the joint ISMB/ECCB conference is on the development and application of advanced computational methods to address biological problems, and brings together researchers from computer science, bioinformatics, computational biology, molecular biology, mathematics, statistics, and related fields. The conference provides a multidisciplinary platform for sharing the latest advancements in bioinformatics and computational biology, fostering new dialogues and perspectives to shape the future of the field.
In addition, with the ever-increasing interest in ISCB’s Communities of Special Interest (COSIs), conference organization actively involves COSIs in program development to help highlight emerging research areas and to deliver an exceptional and research-driven event!
In-person participants will have the opportunity to enjoy:
- in-person training workshops and tutorials
- the Student Council Symposium
- more than 500 expected scientific talks
- exclusive networking events
- the ability to make new connections when utilizing the attendee profile and match maker features within the virtual platform
- the option to schedule one-on-one time with speakers, poster presenters, exhibitors, and sponsors to learn more about their work, products, or services
- exclusive access to the ISMB/ECCB 2025 on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations to catch up on any missed sessions
Virtual participants can enjoy:
- livestream and on-demand access to sessions and tutorials, benefiting attendees from all time zones
- a live question and answer feature to engage with the speaker during sessions
- the live chat feature to engage with other participants within virtual session rooms
- the ability to make new connections when utilizing the attendee profile and match maker features within the virtual platform
- exclusive access to the ISMB/ECCB 2025 on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations to catch up on any missed sessions
ISMB/ECCB 2025 bolsters its reputation as the leading conference in the field, with the strongest scientific and technical program that showcases the best international developments in bioinformatics and computational biology.
Get ready to join us July 20–24 in Liverpool, United Kingdom!
Submission Guidelines
Proceedings
ISMB/ECCB 2025 invites submissions of full papers (not abstracts) consisting of new, unpublished work, reporting theoretical, computational, and statistical advances in computational biology and its intersections with other fields.
Submissions are encouraged to report on advances in algorithm development and optimization, data structures, data visualization, artificial intelligence/machine learning, text mining, statistical inference, database and ontology development, image analysis, citizen and open science, etc. to analyze all types of biological data.
While we encourage submissions in new and emerging areas, we expect that the majority of submissions addressing topical biological domains will fall into one of the areas below. Please note during the EasyChair submission process you will: 1) select your "Area" (list below) and 2) select one or more of the Communities of Special Interest (COSIs) best suited for the presentation of your research from within the area. (learn more about COSIs here).
For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 14, 2025. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.orgAny pre-approved virtual presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference as a precaution due to possible technical issues.
Abstracts
We invite abstracts for research that is topical to bioinformatics and computational biology, which is in progress (unpublished, formerly Late-Breaking Research) or previously published within the last 18 months (previously Highlights Track) for consideration for oral and/or poster presentation.
Your abstract should be submitted to the Communities of Special Interest (COSI) or Open Session Track that most accurately reflects the area of the work. (You will have the option to identify two other tracks that may also be suited to your research area during your submission). You can learn more about COSIs here.
Talks and posters are organized according to scientific topics which are covered by the COSIs and open sessions listed and described below. Please note, abstracts are not limited to COSI and open session topics and if the topic of your submission falls outside the listed COSIs you can choose the "General Computational Biology" area. Your abstract should convey a scientific result and should not be an advertisement for any commercial software package.
Multiple presentations: The same talk is not permitted to be given more than once as an oral presentation at ISMB. Research may be presented as both a talk and a poster if and only if it is submitted as two individual submissions with TWO different presenters. Having the same person deliver two (or more) different talks is NOT PERMITTED on the same topic. This allows for many people from one lab to present the work of the lab. A presenting author may present NO MORE THAN ONE talk or poster on the same topic.
For a variety of reasons, ISCB strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than May 15, 2024. If unable to participate in person you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.orgAny pre-approved virtual presenters will be required to provide a pre-recorded talk for the virtual platform library in advance of the conference as a precaution due to possible technical issues.
List of Proceedings and Abstract Areas
Proceedings Areas
- Bioinformatics Education and Citizen Science
- Bioinformatics of Microbes and Microbiomes
- Biomedical Informatics
- Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research
- Evolutionary, Comparative and Population Genomics
- Genome Sequence Analysis
- Macromolecular Sequence, Structure, and Function
- Privacy and Security for Computational Biology
- Regulatory and Functional Genomics
- Systems Biology and Networks
- General Computational Biology*
*You are encouraged to submit to one of the other 10 thematic areas. If you feel your contribution is at the intersection of many fields, please pick one. If you still want to submit to this area, you will be asked to explain why. Please note that the submissions in this area and others are likely to be moved, subject to chairs’ considerations.
Abstract Talk and Poster Areas
- 3DSIG
- Bio-Ontologies
- BIOINFO-CORE
- BioVis
- BOSC: Bioinformatics Open Source Conference
- CAMDA
- CompMS
- Education
- Equity and Diversity in Computational Biology Research
- Evolution and Comparative Genomics
- Function
- General Computational Biology
- HitSeq
- iRNA
- MLCSB
- MICROBIOME
- NetBio
- RegSys
- SysMod
- Text Mining
- TransMed
- VarI
Committees
Program Committee
- Carole Goble - University of Manchester - United Kingdom
- João Carlos Setubal - University of São Paulo - Brazil
- Janet M Thornton - EBI/EMBL - Untied Kingdom
Organizing committee
- Karsten Borgwardt - Proceedings Chair, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry - Germany
- Carole Goble - Conference Chair, University of Manchester - United Kingdom
- Bel Hanson - ISCB Director, Operations and Programs - United States
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Janet Kelso - ISCB Treasurer and ISCB Conferences Advisory Council Chair, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology - Germany - Diane E. Kovats - ISCB Chief Executive Officer - United States
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Tijana Milenkovic - Proceedings Chair, University of Notre Dame - United States - João Carlos Setubal - Conference Chair, University of São Paulo - Brazil
- Janet M Thornton - Honorary Conference Chair, EBI/EMBL - Untied Kingdom
- Predrag Radivojac - ISCB President, Professor Northeastern University - United States
- Tandy Warnow - University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne - United States
Publication
ISMB/ECCB 2025 proceedings will be published in Bioinformatics
by Oxford University Press
Venue
The conference will take place in the ACC Liverpool
King's Dock, Port of Liverpool, Kings Dock StLiverpool L3 4FP, UK
Contact
All questions should be emailed to Bel Hanson at events@iscb.org