BioVis 2019: Call for Talks, Highlights and Posters
The BioVis Community Of Special Interest <http://biovis.net/> group organizes the interdisciplinary event BioVis, which this year takes place as a one-day track at ISMB/ECCB 2019 on July 22nd 2019. The program includes keynotes from leading visualisation researchers in computer science and industry experts, and selected talks from abstracts submitted by participants.
Aims and focus. BioVis covers all aspects of computational data visualisation in biology. Its aims are to educate and inspire computer scientists, bioinformaticians and biologists to more effectively engage, and work together to solve critical problems in biological data visualisation. New experimental data generation and analysis methods create enormous challenges for existing visualization techniques, and new approaches are needed that enable researchers to gain insight from their large and highly complex data sets.
Talks and Poster submissions. We are accepting long abstracts (1500 words) for talks describing new work, and short abstracts (200 words) highlighting work recently published. We also invite abstracts for posters describing work in progress and preliminary results and these will also be considered for oral presentation during the meeting.
Submissions are made via the 2019 ISMB/ECCB Abstracts Submission system <http://email.iscb.org/c/eJwdTksSgyAUOw0smQcolgULW8d7wONZaetnQBe9fbGZbJJJMon…> by selecting the ‘BioVis COSI’ as the track relevant to your submission. Formatting guidelines and submission rules are detailed at the BioVis Website <http://email.iscb.org/c/eJwVjdsKwyAQRL8mPsq6RhsffGgb8hsl3pptawwx6ffXwsAwB4Y…>.
Key Dates/Deadlines:
Long abstracts and highlight talks deadline: April 11, 2019
Posters submissions deadline: May 6, 2019
Long abstracts/highlights acceptance notification: May 9, 2019
Posters acceptance notifications: May 23, 2019
Early Registration Ends: June 20, 2019
Meeting Program: July 22, 2019
Best regards,
The BioVIs organizing committee
Dear Colleagues,
the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network
Visualization will take place near Prague, Czech Republic, from
September 17 to 20, 2019. As has been tradition since 1994, the
symposium will be accompanied by a Graph Drawing Contest, allowing all
community members to demonstrate their graph drawing skills in a fun
competitive setting. The contest has two parts: the Creative Topics and
the Live Challenge.
1) Creative Topics
For your entertainment and inspiration, we have composed two nice graphs
that you may draw with full artistic freedom. The first graph represents
the appearances of 28 superheroes in 24 movies of the "Marvel Cinematic
Universe". The second graph describes 151 food recipes and their
ingredients extracted from the TheMealDB database. In both cases, you
may visualize the graph in any way you like. Submissions will be judged
on a list of criteria that includes, but is not limited to, readability,
aesthetics, novelty, and design quality. The weighting of the criteria
might be different for the two graphs. Submissions will be handled
through EasyChair. For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/topics.html
Submission deadline: September 05 (23:59 PDT)
2) Live Challenge
Following popular tradition, a live challenge will be held during the
symposium in a format similar to a typical programming contest. Teams
are presented with a collection of challenge graphs and have
approximately one hour to submit their highest scoring drawings. This
year, the challenge focuses on minimizing the number of crossings in a
straight-line upward drawing on a fixed grid. Teams may either draw the
graphs manually, or use their own customized tools. Remote participation
will also be possible. For more details, visit
http://graphdrawing.org/gdcontest/contest2019/challenge.html
3) Awards
Thanks to our generous sponsors, a monetary prize will be awarded to up
to three submissions in each of the four different categories.
We are looking forward to your submissions!
Best regards,
the Graph Drawing Contest Committee,
Philipp Kindermann, Tamara Mchedlidze, and Ignaz Rutter
