========================= Call for Participation for Symposium on Biological Data Visualization (BioVis) ========================= BioVis will be held as a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2017 July 24, 2017 Prague, Czech Republic http://biovis.net/ https://twitter.com/biovis_net ========================= We invite submissions of contributions to the BioVis Symposium in various formats on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. For detailed information including submission instructions please refer to the full CfP at http://biovis.net/2017/cfp_ismb/ 1. ISMB Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (http://bioinformatics.oxfordjournals.org/, impact factor 5.7) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: January 26, 2017 2. BioVis Proceedings ---------------------------- Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the BioVis Proceedings. Accepted submissions will be published in BMC Bioinformatics ( https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/, impact factor 2.4) and presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: April 13, 2017 3. Highlight Talks ---------------------------- Participants are encouraged to submit abstracts highlighting previously published work. Accepted highlight talks will be presented orally at BioVis. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 4. Posters ---------------------------- We invite participants to submit work in progress and preliminary results, previously published work from other venues, or visualization challenges to be presented as a poster. A selection of these will be invited to give a short talk during the conference. Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017