BioVis 2016 BioVis at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD October 23rd, 2016 http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ #biovis *Important Dates:* Paper submission (one-page IEEE abstract): April 29, 2016 BMC manuscript submission: May 6, 2016 Poster submission: August 26, 2016 Design Contest submission: September 23, 2016 All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT). BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The meeting 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, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. It is hosted as a one-day single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016). We invite submissions of original research, poster submissions, as well as submissions for data visualization and redesign contests. We invite contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Paper and Contest submissions can only be submitted to the BioVis meeting at VIS. All accepted abstracts for the conference will be linked on the BioVis website (http://www.biovis.net). All abstracts accepted into the conference will be considered for publication, once extended into papers, in the thematic series on Biological Data Visualization of BMC Bioinformatics (impact factor 2.6), as part of a two-round review process. We are currently working with IEEE on confirming the publishing model as described in this Call for Participation, i.e., an open access publication with BMC Bioinformatics. Should this model not be realized, the manuscripts will be indexed under IEEE. All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis website. Data Analysis and Design Contest entries that are accepted, and deemed to make a significant contribution to the field, will be invited to submit full manuscripts for inclusion in the BMC Bioinformatics journal. *Submission Guidelines:* Authors are required to submit a 1-page abstract for the conference due Apr 29th, and an extended, full BMC paper due May 6th. Note that due to copyright regulations, the 1-page abstract text must be completely different from the extended paper text (including the BMC-style paper abstract.) For the BMC manuscript, please use the templates provided on the http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ website. When formatting the IEEE abstract, please use the template provided at: http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html *Keynote Talk: * Sheelagh Carpendale University of Calgary General chairs - G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Paper chairs - Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Poster chairs - Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA Publication chairs - Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA - Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA Primer & challenges chair - Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland Highlights chair - Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia Data contest chairs - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA - Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK Design contest chairs - Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium - Francis Rowland, EBI, UK Industry and fundraising chair - Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA Website chairs - Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity chairs - Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Steering Committee - Kay Nieselt <http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/>, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nils Gehlenborg <http://www.gehlenborg.com/>, Harvard Medical School, USA - Jessie Kennedy <http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/people/peopleid/41>, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Jos Roerdink <http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/>, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Raghu Machiraju <http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~raghu>, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair)