Links within this page: Tutorials Organization | Compensation | Submitting a Tutorial Proposal | Review of Tutorial Proposals | Tutorial Materials | Copyright and Permissions
The purpose of the tutorial program is to build knowledge and provide hands-on training in "cutting-edge" topics relevant to the bioinformatics field. 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 include any form of presentation such as brief talks or panel discussions but should include hands-on exercises. 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.
Tutorials organization
Tutorials can be planned to be either in-person or fully online, but should not be hybrid. (eg. tutorial presenters and participants should either be fully online or in-person).
Tutorials presented in-person will be held on Thursday, April 17. Tutorials presented online will be held on a weekday (TBD) prior to the conference start. If submitting an online tutorial proposal you will be asked to confirm your preferred time zone for presentation.
Tutorials to be held in-person on Thursday, April 17 will be scheduled as noted below:
Full Day Schedule: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm, (10:45-11:00 am Coffee; Lunch Break 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm)
Half Day Schedule: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm (Break at 10:45-11:00 am) or 1:00-5:00 pm (Break at 2:30 - 2:45 pm)
Times are subject to change based on accepted proposals.
Compensation
The conference organizers are able to offer a complimentary conference registration for up to 2 tutorial presenters. Tutorial organizers may choose to share the value of the complimentary registration if the tutorial has additional presenters. All additional costs (travel, hotel, etc) are the responsibility of the tutorial organizers.
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
- Short promotional blurb for Tutorial if selected
- Maximum number of attendees which can participate in the tutorial
- 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
- Identify and highlight blocks of hands-on content in your submission
- 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: February 3, 2025
During the submission process be sure 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
- The tutorial should achieve a good balance between the theoretical component and hands-on exercises
- Completeness, clarity, and quality of the proposal and materials including schedule of tutorial
- Educational value and effectiveness of the proposed presentation approach and FAIRness of the data, tools and content
Successful tutorial proposals will be notified by February 28, 2025 (no later than 17:00 Eastern Time (ET).
Tutorial Materials
The tutorial speakers agree to provide participants with teaching materials that include not later than April 8, 2025:
- 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.
Copyright and Permissions
The authors must grant copyright to tutorial materials to the ISCB for a period extended from acceptance through December 31, 2025. Authors may also license their materials under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0. The Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), of which CC-BY 4.0 is the most recent version, was developed to facilitate open access content. Open access content has to be freely available online, and through licensing materials and presentation under CC-BY, it is granted to unrestricted dissemination and re-use, with the single provision that proper attribution is given to the authors in any case of distribution and/or reuse. No warranties are expressed or implied using the CC-BY licensing.