Call for Papers

The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2026) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. It will move from the second time outside of USA and will be in Calabria, Italy from June 30 to July 3, 2026. The conference aims to promote AI for Bio-medicine (AI4Bio), including cutting-edge AI advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, artificial intelligence, biology and medicine. The conference will be at University of Calabria Congress Center.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

• Haplotypes and Population Genomics
• Computational Drug Discovery
• Omics Data Integration and Analysis
• Genomic Variation and Disease
• Phylogenetics
• Protein Analysis, Structure, and Dynamics
• Imaging and Radiation Genomics
• Metagenomics and Microbiomes
• Pharmacogenomics
• Biological Networks and Systems Biology
• Knowledge Graphs
• AI and Machine Learning in Healthcare
• Explainable AI and AI Interpretability
• Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Large Language Model (LLM) for Health
• Semantic Representation of LLMs
• Data Harmonization and Ontology
• Computational Phenotyping
• Knowledge Representation Applications
• Multimodality Biomedical Data Analysis
• Biomedical and Health Data Visualization
• Wearable Sensor Informatics
• Computational Epidemiology
• Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
• Data Security and Privacy
• Social Media Analysis for Healthcare

Important Dates:

• Paper Abstracts are due February 20th, 2026.
• Full Paper submissions are due February 27th, 2026.

More details about the conference submission dates coming soon, stay tuned!

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