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<h1 class="western" align="center"> <b>Call for Papers - </b>ICCABS
2026: The 14th International Conference on Computational
Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences</h1>
<h5>North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, United States</h5>
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<h2>Scope</h2>
<p>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.</p>
<p> The <a
href="https://sites.google.com/view/iccabs2026">International
Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and
Medical Sciences (ICCABS)</a> 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.</p>
<h2>Topics of Interest</h2>
<p>Submissions are invited across the full spectrum
of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and
Health Informatics. Topics of interest
include but are not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Algorithms, Methods, and Data Infrastructure
for Biomedical Sciences:</li>
<ul>
<li>AI and machine learning methods, big data
analytics, image processing, literature
mining, databases and ontologies, data
integration, high performance computing </li>
</ul>
<li>Biological Systems and Modeling:</li>
<ul>
<li>Biological modeling and simulation,
molecular evolution and phylogenetics,
sequence analysis, population genomics,
structural bioinformatics, gene regulation,
systems biology</li>
</ul>
<li>Translational, Clinical, and Population
Informatics: </li>
<ul>
<li>Gene expression and multi-omics, comparative
genomics, genomic epidemiology,
immunoinformatics, metagenomics, microbial and
viral genomics.</li>
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<h2>Submission Guidelines</h2>
<p>
Authors are invited to submit their research under
one of the three tracks described below using
EasyChair: <a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs2026">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccabs2026</a>.</p>
<p> <b>Track 1: Papers.</b> 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.</p>
<p> <b>Track 2: Posters.</b> 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.</p>
<p><b> Track 3: Highlight talks</b>. 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. </p>
<p> A limited number of student awards will be made
to cover registration fees (conditional upon NSF
support).</p>
<h2>Key dates for Track 1</h2>
<ul>
<li>Title and abstract submission: December 7,
2025 (11:59 PM, any time zone)</li>
<li>Paper submission deadline: December 12,
2025 (11:59 PM, any time zone)</li>
<li>Notification: December 29, 2025</li>
</ul>
<h2>Key dates for Tracks 2 and 3</h2>
<ul>
<li>Poster and highlight talk submission:
January 2, 2026 (11:59 PM, any time zone)</li>
<li>Notification: January 5, 2026</li>
</ul>
<h2>Committees</h2>
<h3>General Chairs</h3>
<ul>
<li>Ion Mandoiu - University of Connecticut </li>
<li>Sanguthevar Rajasekaran - University of Connecticut</li>
</ul>
<h3>Program Chairs</h3>
<ul>
<li>
Mukul Bansal - University of Connecticut</li>
<li>Cynthia Gibas - University of North Carolina at Charlotte</li>
</ul>
<h3>Steering committee</h3>
<ul>
<li>Sanguthevar Rajasekaran – University of
Connecticut (Chair)</li>
<li>Srinivas Aluru – Georgia Institute of
Technology</li>
<li>Reda A. Ammar – University of Connecticut</li>
<li>Tao Jiang – University of California,
Riverside</li>
<li>Vipin Kumar – University of Minnesota</li>
<li>Ming Li – University of Waterloo</li>
<li>John Reif – Duke University</li>
<li>Sartaj Sahni – University of Florida</li>
</ul>
<h2>Co-located Workshops</h2>
<p> The conference will include special workshops
on:</p>
<ul>
<li>Computational Advances in Metagenomics
Research and Applications (CAMeRA)</li>
<li>Computational Advances in Next-Generation
Sequencing (CANGS)</li>
<li>Computational Advances in Molecular
Epidemiology (CAME)</li>
<li>Computational Advances for Single-Cell Omics
Data Analysis (CASCODA)</li>
</ul>
<p>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 using the contact
information at
iccabs.engr.uconn.edu/workshops as soon as
possible. </p>
<h2> Contact</h2>
<p> All questions about submissions should be
emailed to the program co-chairs (<a href = "mailto:mukul.bansal@uconn.edu?subject=ICCABS 2026 Inquiry">mukul.bansal@uconn.edu</a> and <a href = "mailto:cgibas@charlotte.edu?subject=ICCABS 2026 Inquiry">cgibas@charlotte.edu</a>)</p>
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