ISCB News and Announcements

Mark your calendars for these upcoming events:

The last call to submit an abstract for ISCB’s December Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado is Monday, October 17th, 2022!

Registration is open, so get your spot before it sells out!

What
The International Society of Computational Biology’s (ISCB) Rocky Bioinformatics Conference is an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers to be selected to present their work.

How
The conference includes short "flash" presentations (10-minute talks), poster presentations, and keynote presentations on current projects, including significant works-in-progress involving applying advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.

Important Dates
· Call for Abstracts & Registration – Open
· Call for Abstract Deadline – October 17th, 2022
· Housing & Registration Deadline – November 15th, 2022

Skiing, Lodging & Logistics
Join us at Rocky and bring your family for a vacation. Rocky participants will receive discounted hotel rooms, lift tickets, and rental equipment.

$149 per night at Viewline Snowmass resort (regularly $500 per night).

$90.00 - $105 Full Day Adult Lift Tickets (regularly $149).

30% off ski rental.

Air flights directly to Aspen and Denver from many major airports.

Promotion
We would appreciate your help in getting the word out to your colleagues. See below for easy ways you can help, such as clicking the link and selecting “like,” “share,” or “retweet.”
1. LinkedIn - Open the LinkedIn Post and “like and share.”
2. Twitter - Open Rocky Tweet and “like,” “retweet,” and tag others you think would be interested in attending.

Visit the website for more information: www.iscb.org/rocky2022.
We appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you at the conference.

-The Rocky Conference Organizers

GIW XXXI/ISCB-Asia V (https://www.iscb.org/giw-iscb-asia2022) to be held in Tainan, Taiwan from Dec 12 to 14, 2022

We have assessed the planned relaxation of travel restrictions by the Taiwanese government and feel confident that it will be possible for international participants to travel to the conference without significant inconvenience (although masks will be required). Therefore we are pleased to announce the conference will indeed be held in-person and presenters will be expected to attend the conference in person.

This call is for the following 3 kinds of presentations:

HIGHLIGHTS TRACK
Highlight Abstract Submissions (Highlight Track)
We invite submission of abstracts of already-published full papers, or papers accepted for publication, between June 1, 2020 and the submission deadline. Publications that are in press and already linked on the journal web site are also eligible for consideration.  The program committee will select the papers to be presented, considering the impact of the work on the field and the interest to the audience of the conference. The abstract should be concise (at most 2-pages) in PDF format, and explain how the work impacts our field.

Accepted presenters for the Highlights Track are required to make the presentation themselves, and must register and pay to attend the conference.

ORIGINAL RESEARCH (2nd Call)
This is a second call for original research paper submissions. If you hoped to submit the first time but were not quite ready, this is your chance!

In summary, 4-8+ page manuscripts describing unpublished original research in bioinformatics are welcome and if accepted for oral presentation will have a chance (not a guarantee) of subsequent publication in journals including BMC, JBCB, Bioinformatics Advances and GigaByte.

For more details, see the first call:  https://www.iscb.org/giw-iscb-asia2022-submissions/papers

For each paper accepted for oral presentation, an author is expected to attend the conference in person to present the work. However an attendee can give at most one presentation during the conference (so coordinate travel plans with your co-authors).

POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Poster submission should be 1-2 pages, in plain text or pdf format, concisely describing the work to be presented and preferably including a figure. Emphasis is on providing a means to encourage scientific discussion of your work.

Work in progress is welcome.  Presenters are expected to attend the conference in person.  At most one poster per attendee 

Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=giwiscbasia2022

KEYDATES:
Original Research Submission Deadline: Oct 22
Original Research Notification:        Oct 31

Highlights Submission Deadline:   Nov 3
Highlights Notification:          Nov 14*

Poster Submission Deadline:  Nov 14
Poster Notification:         Nov 21* 

*Highly qualified submissions may be notified earlier

Hello, past and future Rocky Conference Participants,   
 
We have exciting news!  We will meet again in person for the ISCB Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference in Snowmass/Aspen, Colorado, on December 8-10, 2022. Registration is open, so get your spot before it sells out!
 
What
The International Society of Computational Biology’s (ISCB) Rocky Bioinformatics Conference is an excellent opportunity for early-career researchers to be selected to present their work.  
 
How
The conference includes short "flash" presentations (10-minute talks), poster presentations, and keynote presentations on current projects, including significant works-in-progress involving the application of advanced computational methods to significant problems in biology or medicine.
 
Important Dates
·       Call for Abstracts & Registration – Open
·       Call for Abstract Deadline – October 17^th, 2022
·       Housing & Registration Deadline – November 15^th, 2022
 
Skiing, Lodging & Logistics
Join us at Rocky and bring your family for a vacation. Rocky participants will receive discounted hotel rooms, lift tickets, and rental equipment.  

• $149 per night at Viewline Snowmass resort (regularly $500 per night).
• $90.00 - $105 Full Day Adult Lift Tickets (regularly $149).
• 30% off ski rental.
• Air flights directly to Aspen and Denver from many major airports.

Promotion
We would appreciate your help in getting the word out to your colleagues.   See below for easy ways you can help, such as clicking the link and selecting “like,” “share,” or “retweet.”
1.      LinkedIn - Open the LinkedIn Post and “like and share.” 
2.      Twitter - Open Rocky Tweet and “like,” “retweet,” and tag others you think would be interested in attending. 
 
Visit the website for more information: www.iscb.org/rocky2022.
 
We appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you at the conference.  
 
The Rocky Conference Organizers