(Apologies for cross-posting) ========================= BioVis 2026 Call for Papers ========================= BioVis@ISMB/ECCB 2026 July 16, 2026 Washington, DC, USA CfP: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/proceedings **Submission deadline: Jan 20, 2026 (AoE)** This call highlights the upcoming ISMB Proceedings submission deadline on January 20, 2026 for BioVis@ISMB/ECCB 2026. BioVis is a Community of Special Interest (COSI) event at ISMB 2026, taking place on July 16, 2026, in Washington, DC, USA. ---- [Aims and Scope] The rapidly expanding field of biology creates enormous challenges for data visualization techniques that enable researchers to gain insight from large and highly complex data sets. The BioVis Interest Group organizes the interdisciplinary symposium BioVis, covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The event brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities, with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, and bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. We invite submissions of original research articles as well as poster and talk submissions. More information can be found on the BioVis website: http://biovis.net/2026/ismb/ ---- [Symposium Format] BioVis@ISMB/ECCB 2026 will be a one-day, single-track event, featuring keynotes and invited talks, paper sessions, highlight talks, and posters and demos. Contributions are welcome on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to population biology, including, but not limited to: - Genome and sequence data - Multivariate omics data - Phylogenetic data - Biological networks and pathways - Biological ontologies - Macromolecular structures (e.g., protein or RNA structures) - Biological image data, such as microscopy data - Integration of image and omics data for systems biology - Modeling and simulation of biological systems - Neurobiology and developmental biology - Systems and software frameworks - Biological workflows or collaborative processes - Usability of visualization by biologists - Biological atlases and metadata - Processes for collaboration between biology and visualization - Integrating visualization and machine learning for biological analysis ---- [Submission Criteria] **Submission deadline: January 20, 2026 (23:59 AoE)** Novel, unpublished work can be submitted as a paper to the ISMB Proceedings. If accepted, manuscripts will be published in the OUP Journal Bioinformatics (impact factor 6.9). Authors of accepted papers will be required to present their work at the symposium in a talk. Authors of rejected papers will be invited to submit a poster. **Submission Guidelines** Authors are required to submit a full paper through the ISMB proceedings submission site and must adhere to the submission guidelines outlined on the same page. Submission site and guidelines: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/call-for-submissions/proceedings During submission, please make sure to specify "BioVis" as the "TOPIC" (or primary COSI) of your submission to ensure your manuscript is assigned to our COSI. We encourage the use of digital video to enhance paper submissions, particularly if part or all of the work addresses interactive techniques. Please note that OUP does not support videos as supplementary materials, so videos must be hosted elsewhere (e.g., YouTube). ---- [Important Dates] In addition to proceedings papers, BioVis@ISMB/ECCB 2026 will also accept talk and poster submissions. Abstracts are due April 9, 2026 Late posters deadline: May 7, 2026 Deadlines and Notifications for ISMB Proceedings: - Submission deadline: January 20, 2026 - Conditional acceptance notification: March 10, 2026 - Revision deadline: March 24, 2026 - Final acceptance notification: April 2, 2026 See ISMB 2026 Key Dates for full details: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026/key-dates For full submission guidelines and important dates, please refer to: https://www.iscb.org/ismb2026 ---- [General Chairs] Zeynep Gumus, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA Qianwen Wang, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA ------------------------------ Kind regards, The BioVis 2026 Committee