ISCB News and Announcements

A quick update on ISCB-Africa ASBCB 2025 submissions!

Special Sessions Deadline: Monday, February 17

There’s still time to submit a Special Session proposal and bring cutting-edge topics to the ISCB community! These sessions serve as mini-symposia, exploring timely and emerging areas in bioinformatics and computational biology. We encourage proposals on timely topics or new, emerging areas in the field.

For more details about topics and special sessions, or to submit your proposal, visit the Special Sessions page.

New Deadline for Abstracts: Thursday, February 20

The abstract submission deadline has been extended to Thursday, February 20!

Abstracts will be organized by scientific topic, covering key areas including but not limited to agricultural bioinformatics, biomedical ethics, informatics for biobanks, and pathogen genomics.

Abstracts should be approximately 400 words with no figures and can reference published papers where appropriate. Abstracts should focus on scientific results rather than promotional content.

Full abstract submission instructions can be reviewed here. 

We look forward to your contributions!