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ISMB/ECCB 2021 Virtual Conference Registration (Now Open)

• Registration Benefits
• Registration Fellowships
• ISCB Laboratory Registration
• Registration Fees
• Code of Conduct
• Tutorials
• Student Council Symposium
• Conference Proceedings
• Cancellation Policy
• Controlled Access to Meeting Content

Registration is still open for VoD of the conference at a 50% reduced rate!

Registration Benefits

Registration for ISMB/ECCB 2021 Virtual conference is for the full conference only.  Registration includes the following conference benefits:

• Training workshops and tutorials
• Student Council Symposium 
• Live and on-demand sessions to benefit attendees from all time zones
• 500+ expected scientific talks
• Live question and answer feature to engage with the speaker during sessions
• Live chat feature to engage with other participants within your session room
• Dedicated time for research presentation within the Research Exchange Forum (formally Poster Hall) 
• Ability to make new connections when utilizing the attendee profile and match maker features
• 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 2021 on-demand repository of talks and poster presentations for viewing at your leisure after conference dates

When you register please ensure that you select your preferred program options from the list of Communities of Special Interest (COSI) or Other program options.

Registration fees are in United States dollars. Certificates of participation will be available on-line for registered delegates following the conference.

Registration Fellowships

ISCB is pleased to offer registration fellowships to any member in good standing with priority going to members from low or middle income countries as well as students and postdoctoral fellows to attend the ISMB/ECCB 2021 virtual conference. Funding sources for Fellowships are very limited and we regret that we are not able to fund all applicants. The conference organizers are committed to providing support to as many eligible applicants as possible. Fellowship consideration is based on membership, accepted work to ISMB/ECCB 2021 and country economic status based on World Bank rankings.

The fellowship application is available here: https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021-general/fellowship 

ISCB Laboratory Registration

*ISCB Laboratory Member Rate: Available to ISCB Member Institutions or Labs. This is a new ISCB membership type effective March, 2021. See ISCB membership categories at: https://www.iscb.org/become-a-member 

**Laboratory Rate: Available to a group or lab where the lead registrant is an ISCB member. The additional 7 group registrants are not required to be members of ISCB. This registration category includes ISCB membership for any combination of up to 7 students or postdocs as part of the group.

The lead registrant will register the additional 7 members of the group at the time of registration. The group will not receive confirmations but will receive instructions in early July on how to participate in the conference virtually.

REGISTRATION FEES

You can check which country income rate will be used at: https://www.iscb.org/membership-dues-calculator

ISCB MEMBERSHIP (ISCB Membership Fee Chart available here)

ISCB MEMBERS

If you are a current member of ISCB, you must use the email address registered with your ISCB membership record in order to register at the discounted member rates through the online system. If you do not know the email address you used to register with ISCB, please use the help function at: http://www.iscb.org/iscb-forgot-your-password

NON-MEMBERS OF ISCB

Save money by becoming a member of ISCB during registration.

ISCB MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL

If your ISCB membership is not current or will expire on or before July 30, 2021, you will be offered an opportunity to renew your membership as part of your registration fees through the online system.

PAYMENT OPTIONS

ISMB/ECCB 2021 conference fees are charged in United States dollars. The following credit cards are accepted for registration: American Express, MasterCard, and Visa.

WIRE TRANSFER

Last day to pay by wire or check Ends on July 9, 2021 - after this time only Credit Card payment is accepted

To arrange a wire transfer please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. to request wire transfer instructions. PLEASE note a $25.00 wire administration fee must be added during your registration for those choosing to pay by wire transfer. If you will be paying by ACH rather than an electronic wire transfer, please specify that as the detailed instructions are different. Please note that any bank fees must be paid by the participant. Should funds arrive with bank fees deducted, payment of the difference will be charged to the participant at on-site registration.

For further information write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

CODE OF CONDUCT

The ISCB Code of Conduct for ISCB Conferences is available here.

STUDENT COUNCIL SYMPOSIUM

Friday, July 23: Start: 8 UTC end: 14:25 UTC (Day 1)
Saturday, July 24: 14 UTC end: 20:50 UTC (Day 2)

The 17th ISCB Student Council Symposium (SCS17) is a student-organized event featuring keynote lectures, oral presentations and a poster session. The Symposium is tailored mainly to undergraduate and graduate students as well as post-docs in computational biology and related disciplines. You can find details on the program at:  https://www.scs2021.iscbsc.org 

The Student Council Symposium is a forum for students and young researchers in the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Participants will have the opportunity to present their work to an international audience, build a network within the computational biology community and develop important soft skills in an environment that fosters exchange of ideas and knowledge.

SCS Registration fees:

• Free for ISMB/ECCB 2021 registrants while registering with the conference
• $10 for ISCB members
• $20 for non-members
  
  

TUTORIALS

Tutorials are held as separate virtual events - details on the tutorial program are available at:
https://www.iscb.org/ismbeccb2021-program/tutorials

Note: You must be registered for the ISMB/ECCB 2021 conference to attend a Tutorial.  

Registration Fees

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Conference proceedings will be available as an open access, online-only issue of Bioinformatics after July 12, 2021.

CANCELLATION POLICY
Request for registration cancellation must be made in writing and emailed to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. prior to July 9, 2021. Registration fees will be refunded, less a $25.00 administration fee, when requested no later than July 9. No refunds are available after July 9, 2021.

CONTROLLED ACCESS TO MEETING CONTENT

Only registered participants will have online access to the conference. Presenters concerned about unpublished data can request that specific slides not be shown. In exceptional cases, the presenter can request that none of their slides be provided online.

For questions about registration contact: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

COSI Organizer Information Page

• COSI Track Benefits
• Abstract Submission Process
• General FAQ
  
  Last update: April 26, 2021

COSI TRACK BENEFITS

• COSIs receive up to five complimentary registrations along with two additional registrations for those serving as COSI track moderators. Complimentary discount codes* were issued to COSI organizers March 29/21.
  
  *(Please note the code does not allow a non-member to receive the complimentary ISCB membership and will not work if entered if the free membership is chosen.)
  
  
• Moderators will be asked to be present within the chat feature of their tracks over their scheduled talks. These registrations can be distributed to anyone at the discretion of the COSI.
• Attendee Commissions - At the end of the conference, ISCB will calculate the COSI commissions. Commissions are based on the number of registrations that identified your group as their main COSI. A registrant may select up to four COSIs if purchasing a full conference registration. A set commission rate is applied to each paid registrant and shared based on total percentage to the COSI.
  
  
• Unrestricted use of escrow funds to support COSI track speakers or additional events
  
  
• Full allocation of any sponsorship raised by COSI to COSI escrows. Note: COSIs are responsible for fulfilling any benefit promised to a COSI only sponsor. Sponsors wishing to participate in the exhibit hall will need to pay the conference exhibitor fees.

Abstract Submission Process:

Key Dates:

• COSIs identify 2 or 3 Abstract Chairs (ACs) from within community to manage the review process. These names will be added to EasyChair as Track Chairs for each COSI.
• COSI Abstract Chairs will be responsible for identifying a review / program committee to review the abstracts for both talk and poster presentation within their COSI. ACs will add these names to COSI track within EasyChair.
• Each COSI is responsible for reviewing abstracts submitted to their area as either:
  • Poster only
  • Talk and poster (abstracts in this category if not accepted as a talk should be reviewed for a poster).
• Ideally each abstract should have a minimum of two (2) reviews and preferably three (3).
• COSI Abstracts Chairs are encouraged to quickly review the abstracts that are submitted to their COSI. If the abstract is not topical, please let Steven Leard (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) know and he can transfer the abstract to the appropriate COSI suggested by your COSI. We recognize abstracts may cross COSI themes. In the event that an abstract could fit in multiple theme, it will be considered first to the COSI for which the author has designated submission. If not selected for oral, it may be considered for another COSI track.
• COSI Abstract Chairs responsible for notifying acceptances for talks and posters within COSI track.
  
  
  • Notifications should be sent no later than May 27.
  • Each speaker will need to sign permissions to be part of the online platform.
  • All talk (pre-recorded) presentations must be submitted to system no later than July 2, 2021.
  • Poster presentations can be submitted to conference platform beginning July 12, 2021.

• Selected Abstract talks will be presented by COSI track and run in parallel at the conference.
• The length of a talks are in units of 20 minutes (should includes time for questions). Oral presentation times for abstracts are announced by the COSI track organizers.
• COSI Area Chairs responsible for reviewing Late Posters to their COSI (opens May 10, closes, June 3) within individual COSIs. *Acceptance notifications sent June 10.
• COSI Area Chairs responsible for awarding their own prizes - top poster prize winner name, affiliation and poster title should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. no later than 3:00 pm on Thursday July 29 so the name can be recognized during the closing ceremonies.
  
  

• COSI Track Schedule

  • COSIs will provide their detailed track schedule by June 4 using the template provided by ISCB.
  • Track schedule will be loaded into the online platform and will be the guiding production schedule.
  • COSIs needs to indicate on the track schedule which talks will are live-stream or will have live Q&A, panels, or breakout room requirements.

  
  COSI Invited Talks

  • COSI Track Chairs will provide to ISCB their confirmed invited speakers (name, affiliation, email) by June 4.
  • ISCB will work with each invited speaker to conduct a training on how to use the system prior to the conference.

  
  Posters

  • All abstracts accepted to present posters will receive instruction from ISCB on how to enter their poster into the system.
    • ISCB will use the abstract, title, author list, as entered in EasyChair
    • Each poster entry will have PDF of poster and recording of presentation
    • ISCB will send instructions to each poster presenter

  
  Speaker Communication

  • ISCB will handle the communications with your speaker on how to:
    • Use the system if they are identified as live-stream
    • Record their presentation
    • Upload their presentation to the system
  • ISCB and the production team will check the pre-recorded talk to ensure length is correct and quality is good
  • It is expected that all speakers are registered for the conference. You can assign complimentary passes as you wish or cover additional passes from your COSI escrow.
  • ISCB also has a fellowship program if one is unable to pay. Fellowships are prioritized based on career level and income status of the country.

  
  Day of Logistics and Track Execution

  • COSIs will be responsible for monitoring their tracks on their scheduled day of broadcast.
    • Recommend to assign 2-3 individuals that will share the work on monitoring the track.
  • Each COSI will be assigned a production manager. That manager will manage the live-stream talks, activating the live Q&A of the speaker and moderator, opening breakout rooms under the guidance of the COSI, and playing the pre-recorded sessions.
    • The production manager will follow the pre-determined schedule.
    • COSI monitors are to ensure Q&A, panel, breakout rooms stay on schedule.

 General FAQ

Q: Can I submit more than one abstract?
A: Yes, but although having the same person deliver more than one talk is permitted, it is not encouraged. Also, although a poster presenter may present two posters (one in Poster Session A and one in Poster Session B), we encourage labs to involve multiple presenters.

Q: Can previously accepted work be considered for a poster?
A: Yes, we do ask that you note the year the work was published and provide the Digital Object Identifier (DOI) during the submission process.

SOLD OUT!
We have reached capacity for this track. Please check back next year for your opportunity to present.

Call For Technology Track Submissions - ISMB/ECCB 2021

Chair: Hagit Shatkay, University of Delaware, United States

Prior to submitting please review the ISCB Exhibitor and Technology Track guidelines for presentations available here.

**Technology Track Submissions CLOSED

The Technology Track allows organizations to showcase their software and/or hardware relevant to the bioinformatics / molecular biology community. Presentations will be made via virtual platform.

Technology Track

To conduct a Technology Track presentation, organizations must complete the on-line sign-up form including a brief description (50 words maximum) of the talk and a one (1) page Technology Track presentation overview (PDF) which will provide the delegate with additional details about the technology being presented and include a one page CV of the presenter as related to the topic. The presenter of the Technology Track must be a registered and paid delegate of the conference.

The cost to present a Technology Track is:

For profit organization: US$1000.00 (20 minutes)
Not for profit organization: US$600.00 (20 minutes)
*Additional 20 minutes at $200, maximum of 2 additional 20 minutes.

• Please note payment is due within 10 days of acceptance to ensure talk is included in the conference program schedule).
• Presentation fees do not include conference registration.

Technology Track Details:

• The Technology Track schedule is set by the organizers with sponsors given scheduling preference for presentation time slots;
• Each presentation is listed on conference web site and includes abstract and full page PDF overview;
• Technology Track presentations will occur on a virtual platform.

Presentations occur as part of the parallel track system. Individual time slots are on a 20 minutes schedule (3 talks per hour).

Within your time slot, you are at liberty to demonstrate your software in any way that you see fit: for example, you can combine one or more structured talks with live demos and question-and-answer sessions. Authors should consider providing handouts for attendees.

Acceptance and Confirmation

All submissions will be reviewed by the Technology Track selection committee and notification of acceptance will be forwarded no later than June 3, 2020. Technology Track presenters will be contacted by the conference organizers regarding presentation acceptance, Technology Track schedule, logistics and payment. Payment should not be made until organizations receive notification of acceptance.

For information on Technology Tracks contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

*** Click here to sign-up to complete your submission for the Technology Track ***

Proceedings Publishing Fees Information

It has been a long-standing tradition that the ISCB has covered the publishing fees for ISMB/ECCB Proceedings, but not for other meetings. It seems appropriate that we standardize the publishing offers across all ISCB conferences. By doing so we also align our strategy with that of many other conference organizers. We therefore are asking all authors of accepted Proceedings papers to cover the publication fee for their paper themselves if they are able to do so. For this purpose, we have negotiated a publication fee of $700 for ISMB-ECCB 2021. This is a very substantial reduction from the publication fees customary for OUP journals.

Complete your publication fee at https://iscb.swoogo.com/ISCBPublishingFees

Authors are responsible for the publication fee of $700 USD.  ISCB will bill the author directly for these fees. ISCB is committed to supporting all of its members, especially those from under-developed nations and/or those without funding.  If your manuscript is accepted and you are unable to pay for the publications fees in part or in full, you may submit a fee waiver request to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..  Please provide your name, full institute address, and a short (up to 50 words) justification of why you are unable to cover the publication fee with the subject line of ISMB/ECCB 2021 Publications Fee Waiver Request.

Proceedings publications are part of an online-only special issue of Bioinformatics and are open access (CC-BY), fully citable, and indexed by Medline and ISI. See the conference proceedings for ISMB 2020 for an example of online-only publication by Oxford University Press.

ISMB/ECCB 2021 - Distinguished Keynote

Rodrigo A. Gutierrez

FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation
Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology
Universidad Catolica de Chile
Chile
http://virtualplant.bio.puc.cl/

Introduced by: Marie-France Sagot, Conference Co-Chair
Time: Sunday, July 25, 16:20 - 17:20 UTC
Presentation Title: Phylogenomics and Systems Biology approaches reveal conserved adaptive processes in Atacama Desert plants

Abstract

Throughout evolution, plants become adapted to flourish in a variety of biomes and ecosystems, including some of the extreme deserts. In the current changing climate scenario, it is essential to identify the underlying molecular mechanisms that enable plant resilience to such extreme conditions. The Atacama Desert, the driest non-polar desert in the world, offers a unique opportunity to explore plant adaptations to marginal soils and extreme environmental conditions. In central Atacama Desert, we characterized the three pristine and extreme ecosystems that evolved along a natural altitudinal gradient of environmental parameters generated on the western Andes slopes. Among these environmental parameters, we recorded low and unpredictable precipitation patterns, large daily temperature oscillations, low humidity, extremely high radiation levels, as well as soils with consistently low nitrogen levels. Despite these harsh environmental conditions, an interesting diversity of plant species coexist in these ecosystems. We sequenced the transcriptome of the 32 most abundant and persistent plant species, representing 14 plant families with diverse phylogenetic origins, in order to explore signature gene functions underlying plant survival. Using phylogenomics, we compared the protein-coding sequences of these 32 Atacama species to their 32 closest available sequenced species, and found 265 genes under positive selection in Atacama plants versus their non adapted “sister” species. These genes are involved in various developmental, regulatory and metabolic processes associated with environmental adaptation. We chose a set of positive selected genes and based the available functional characterization of their Arabidopsis orthologs we exemplify their potential role in the adaptation of plants to the extreme Atacama Desert. Our study provides new insights into plant abiotic stress tolerance, and improves our understanding of the highly unique, undisturbed Atacama Desert ecosystem.

Biography

Dr. Gutiérrez is Full Professor and past Chair at the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, and current Research DIrector at the School of Biological Sciences of the P. Universidad Católica de Chile. Deputy Director of the Millennium Institute for Integrative Biology and Principal Investigator at the FONDAP Center for Genome Regulation. He has received several awards and honors during his career, including the Howard Hughes Medical Institute International Early Career Scientist award, John A. Boezi Memorial Alumnus Award from Michigan State University and the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Award of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is one of the founders of the Chilean Society of Plant Biologists and was the first elected president.

Dr. Gutiérrez’s interest is to use systems biology approaches to understand mechanisms to regulate gene expression in response to nitrogen nutrients or metabolite signals in plants using A. thaliana as a model system. He pioneered the combined use of classical experimental biology, functional genomics and bioinformatics approaches to unravel molecular mechanisms of plant form and function. He created tools that facilitate data integration and analysis and enable plant systems biology research. By iteratively combining bioinformatics tools with functional genomics and classical molecular genetics approaches he and his team discovered important molecular mechanisms plants utilize to respond to changes in nitrogen (N) nutrient availability using Arabidopsis as a model system. This is essential for developing strategies that intervene in molecular networks for biotechnological purposes such as improving N use efficiency in plants or modifying the amino acid content of seeds, which are important issues for health, agriculture and human nutrition. It is of paramount importance for modern agriculture to improve crop N use efficiency as world population, food needs and crop use diversification (e.g. for biofuel production) will continue to increase.

ISMB/ECCB 2021 - Distinguished Keynote

Eduardo Rocha

Genomes and Genetics
Institut Pasteur
France
https://research.pasteur.fr/en/member/eduardo-rocha/

Introduced by: Jacques Van Helden, Conference Co-chair
Time: Tuesday, July 27, 16:20 – 17:20 UTC
Presentation Title: Cosmos from chaos: how intra-genomic conflicts and horizontal transfer drive genome evolution

Abstract

Horizontal gene transfer driven by self-mobilizable genetic elements allows the acquisition of complex adaptive traits and their transmission to subsequent generations. Transfer speeds up evolutionary processes as exemplified by the acquisition of virulence traits in emerging infectious agents and by antibiotic resistance in many human pathogens. Transfer is also costly because the vectors of horizontal transfer compete within genomes, have their own mobile elements and are often deadly. As a result, genomes are repositories of multiple immune systems from hosts and from mobile elements that interact in complex ways to drive gene flow in communities. The combination of evolutionary genomics and sequence analysis is now opening up these processes to show how they bring into the genome a constant flux of novel genes that favor the establishment and the invention of novel functions.

Biography

Eduardo Rocha studied Chemical Engineering and Applied Maths,  did a PhD in Bioinformatics and a Habilitation in Biology. He is the director of the Genome & Genetics department at Pasteur Institute, where he heads the Microbial Evolutionary Genomics lab since 2008. He is a Specialist in comparative genomics, in particular in the use of bioinformatics and biostatistics to study microbial evolution. His research aims at understanding how and why genomes are organized, and how such organizational features evolve in respect to genome dynamics and bacterial adaptation. In the last decade, his work has focused on the role of mobile genetic elements in shaping gene repertoires and driving functional innovation.

Call for Tutorials - ISMB/ECCB 2021

Chair: Annette McGrath, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia
Co-chair: Michelle Brazas, Ontario Institute for Cancer Research, Canada
Co-chair: Patricia M. Palagi, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Switzerland

Opens: November 9, 2020

Tutorial Submissions

This call is an open invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality proposals for Tutorials at ISMB/ECCB 2021.

Tutorial Program at ISMB/ECCB 2021

The purpose of the Tutorials program is to build knowledge and provide hands-on training in "cutting-edge" topics relevant to the bioinformatics field and the COSI communities. Tutorials offer participants an opportunity to get an introduction to important established topics in bioinformatics, to learn about new areas of bioinformatics research, or to develop advanced skills in areas about which they are already knowledgeable. Tutorials may also serve to bring together people and COSI communities with common interests to discuss, debate and problem-solve defined topics.

Tutorials may include any form of presentation such as brief talks or hands-on exercises or panel discussions. Tutorials serve an educational function and are expected to provide a balanced perspective on a field of research. They should not focus on the presenters' own research or software, unless balanced with other tools in the same realm. However, tutorials on broadly used bioinformatics tools will be considered. Please note that if you wish to focus your talk on a demo of a specific software package, your proposal should be submitted to the Technology Track.

Potential topic areas (a list of Tutorials presented in 2020 is available here) may include but are not limited to the following:

• Analysis of long read-sequencing data
• AI and Machine Learning for bioinformatics
• GA4GH tools for data sharing
• Single-cell RNA, DNA or protein analysis
• Translational informatics: Opportunities for bioinformatics in the clinical realm
• Assembly of genomes in metagenomics
• How to make your software sustainable and reusable for open access or commercial usage
• Biological Sciences for Bioinformaticians (eg aimed at Comp-science graduates with less/no prior biology knowledge)
• Data Science in Genomics
• Workflow tools (eg Snakemake, NextFlow)
• Data Visualization for Bioinformatics
• Bioinformatics on Cloud Platforms

• Best practices (eg learning github, Python coding standard PEP8 etc)

Tutorials organization

Tutorials are planned to be in person, as noted above, or fully online, but should not be blended (with participants online and in person).

Tutorials should be designed as half-day (4 hours) or full-day (8 hours) sessions. Full day sessions would include a 1 hour lunch break from 1:00 - 2:00 pm. If in person lunch is not included as part of the registration fee.(15-minute coffee breaks are scheduled for 11:00 am and 4:00 pm and should also be listed in your agenda).

Compensation

The conference organizers are able to offer a complimentary conference registration for up to 3 tutorial presenters. Tutorial organizers may choose to share the value of the complimentary registration if the tutorial has additional presenters.

Submitting a Tutorial Proposal

Tutorial proposals should contain the following information in a maximum of 4 pages:

• Title of Tutorial
• Abstract for Tutorial
• Learning Objectives for Tutorial
• Maximum number of attendees participating
• Prefered tutorial delivery mode: 100% in person or 100% online.
  
• Draft Schedule of the tutorial including coffee breaks (half-day or full-day schedule) - Include draft talk titles or draft content to be covered in each section
• Draft List of Tutorial Speakers with titles and affiliations
• Intended audience and level - Describe the audience for which the Tutorial is aimed, and at which level it would be taught (e.g. beginner, past experience, advanced knowledge).

The final proposal must be uploaded as a PDF file only.

Deadline for Tutorial Proposals: Monday December 14, 2020

Click here to complete a submission for Tutorials. You will also be asked during the submission process to provide a brief description of the tutorial that will be used on the website to promote it to delegates, and to confirm that if selected, you will submit draft and final tutorial materials for committee review by the listed deadlines

Review of Tutorial Proposals

All tutorial submissions will be evaluated by a committee, which will consider the following criteria:

• Relevance, interest, and value of the topic to ISMB attendees and COSI communities
• Completeness, clarity, and quality of the proposal and materials including schedule of tutorial
• Educational value and effectiveness of the proposed presentation approach
• Overlap with tutorials held in 2020
• Educational value and effectiveness of the proposed presentation approach and FAIRness of the data, tools and content

Successful tutorial proposals will be notified by Friday January 29, 2021.

Tutorial Materials

The tutorial speakers agree to provide participants with teaching materials that include:

Copies of the final slides in Powerpoint or PDF format for posting online.
Copies of relevant articles/book chapters published by the presenters provided as Supplementary Information. Presenters will have to obtain copyright permission from their publishers, as required.
Links to repositories containing training materials.
Make your training materials FAIR (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable), as much as possible.

Recording of Tutorial sessions

Tutorials programs will be recorded to serve as online learning tools following the conference. All presenters must agree to allow ISCB to post the recordings of the Tutorials program as a requirement of acceptance.

Copyright

The authors will grant copyright to tutorial materials to the ISCB for a period to extend from acceptance through August 1, 2021, and they agree that their materials may be made available for use in perpetuity through ISCB.

Tutorial Contact Information

Correspondence from prospective instructors should be sent to: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.