The scientific program of CIBB 2021 will include keynote speakers, tutorials and special sessions. Contributed papers will be presented in plenary oral sessions, and special sessions. The CIBB 2021 conference will be an online event. This call for papers invites researchers to submit a short paper (4-6 pages) that will go through a peer review and, if accepted, will be presented at the conference. After the conference, the authors of all the accepted short papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscript for the conference proceedings book in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) or for a journal supplement in BMC Bioinformatics or BMC Medical Informatics.

Topics of interest include:

• Machine learning methods for bioinformatics and health informatics
• Next generation sequencing bioalgorithms
• Multi-omics data analysis
• High dimensional statistical analysis of omics data
• Algorithms for alternative splicing analysis
• Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
• Methods for the visualization of high dimensional complex omic data
• Software tools for bioinformatics
• Methods for comparative genomics
• Computational tools applied to proteomics
• Methods for functional classification of genes
• Methods for unsupervised analysis, validation and visualization of
• structures discovered in bio-molecular data
• Health-Informatics and Medical Informatics
• Biomedical and Microscopy Imaging
• Methods for the integration of clinical and genetic data
• Heterogeneous data integration and data fusion for diagnostics
• Algorithms for pharmacogenomics
• Biomedical text mining
• Methods for diagnosis and prognosis within personalized medicine
• Statistical methods for the analysis of clinical data
• Prediction of secondary and tertiary protein structures
• Advanced pathway enrichment analysis methods
• Mass spectrometry data analysis in proteomics
• Algorithms for molecular evolution and phylogenetic analysis
• Bio-molecular databases and data mining
• Mathematical modeling and automated reasoning on biological and
• synthetic systems
• Computational simulation of biological systems
• Methods and advances in systems biology
• Spatio-temporal analysis of synthetic and biological systems
• Network systems biology
• Models for cell populations and tissues
• Methods for the engineering of synthetic components
• Modelling and engineering of interacting synthetic and biological systems
• Software tools for bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology

Please check the official CIBB 2021 website for additional information: http://www.isa.cnr.it/cibb2021/

Dates
Paper submission: 15 September 2021
Acceptance/rejection notification: 15 October 2021
Camera ready due: 30 October 2021
Conference: 15 – 17 November 2021

Submission of papers
Prospective authors should submit short papers prepared according to the following instructions:

• The short papers should be submitted in PDF format (this is the only accepted format).
• The short papers length should be at least 4 pages and should not exceed 6 pages in total.
• The short papers should be written in British English or North American English. Please perform a grammar spell-check and correct any typos or mistakes before the submission.
• The short papers should include 10 references at most.
• We warmly recommend the use of the provided templates available for LaTeX (preferred), LibreOffice Writer, and Microsoft Word. The LaTeX template is also available for free on Overleaf.com.

• Scientific background
• Data and methods
• Results
• Conclusions
• References (maximum 10)

The submission website will be available soon on the website.

Publication
The PDF versions of accepted short papers will be distributed at the conference. At least one author of an accepted paper is required to register and present the paper at the conference. The authors of all the accepted short papers (both of the main track and of the special sessions) will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the post-conference monograph or supplements. We plan to invite all the papers for a volume in the Springer series of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), or to a supplement of an international scientific journal (such as BMC Bioinformatics and BMC Medical Informatics, as in the latest editions). Please see the past editions webpage to find the books of the proceedings and supplements of the past editions of the conference to get a sense of them.

Keynote speakers
Karsten Borgwardt (ETH Zurich)
Ombretta Melaiu (Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù)
André M. Carrington (Ottawa Hospital and Region Imaging Associates)
Jacques Balayla (McGill University)

Special sessions

• Artificial intelligence and statistical methods for neurodegenerative diseases
• Modeling and simulation methods for computational biology and systems medicine
• Bio-inspired AI and AI-inspired (bio)chemical intelligence: a viable two-way path?
• Towards standardizing machine learning in life sciences: the FAIR principles and the DOME recommendations
• Machine learning in healthcare informatics and medical biology

Please check the official CIBB 2021 website for additional information: http://www.isa.cnr.it/cibb2021/

You can contact the CIBB 2021 organizers at: cibb2021@protonmail.com