[CPM-SPIRE-L] ACM-BCB 2020 Call for Workshops

[DeBlasio, Daniel F]

Call for Workshop Proposals
ACM-BCB 2020: 11th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics
Atlanta, GA, Aug 30-Sep 2, 2020
 
https://acm-bcb.org/
 
Important Dates:
   Workshop proposal deadline: March 27, 2020 
   Notification of acceptance: April 3, 2020
   Workshops will be held on August 30 (Sunday), 2020
 
The 11th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. ACM-BCB 2020 will be held in Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 2, 2020.
 
We invite submissions of workshop proposals on a broad range of topics of interest to the ACM SigBio research community. Examples of relevant topics include, but are not limited to, the following:
 
Analytical Tools for Phenomics, and High Throughput Phenotyping
* Big Data and Predictive Analytics in Health Care
* Brain map and computational neuroscience
* Clinical and Health Decision Support Systems
* Computational Systems Biology and Biological Network Modeling
* Epigenomics, Gene Regulation and Transcription
* Epidemiology and infectious disease modeling
* Genome and Sequence Analysis
* Healthcare Data Quality Control, Privacy, and Security
* High Performance Computing (HPC) and Parallel methods for Computational Biology
* Microbiomics, Metagenomics and Metaproteomics
* Mobile Health and Sensor Networks
* Population, Evolution, and Comparative Genomics
* Protein and RNA - Structure and Function
* Proteomics and Metabolomics
* Text Mining of Biomedical Literature and Clinical Notes
* Tools and Methods for Precision Agriculture
* Tools and Methods for Precision Medicine
* Translational Bioinformatics
* Visualization and Visual Analytics of Biological and Health Data
 
Each workshop proposal can be up to 6 pages to include the following information:
- Motivation and rationale for the workshop
- Proposed workshop length: half day, or a full-day with a lunchtime break
- Names and affiliations of main organizers
- A description of the workshop format, i.e. peer-reviewed proceedings, position papers and invited talks, panels, in-depth tutorials/demos:
- For peer-reviewed sessions, the planned peer-reviewed process should be detailed;
- For invited talks, names of a list of potential list of speakers should be provided;
- For panels, the main topic along with a list of panel questions to be addressed, along with the names of a potential list of panelists should be provided;
- For teaching workshops, a draft syllabus should be provided;
- For demonstration workshops, a general outline of the planned activities and prerequisite materials needed should be described.
 
A detailed timeline for inviting and accepting papers and presenters for the workshop should be presented.
If there is going to be a proceedings for the workshop, would you like the proceedings to appear alongside ACM-BCB proceedings?
An important goal of the workshops is to engage participants via interactions and/or community building. Each proposal is expected to describe its plans to achieve this goal.
Any other relevant information to your proposal workshop (e.g. has the proposed workshop be done in the past and in other venues? If so, when and where?).
 
For the continuing workshops (i.e., the workshops have been held at BCB 2019), a shorter proposal is expected and include the following information:
- Proposed workshop length: half day, or a full-day with a lunchtime break
- Names and affiliations of main organizers
- A detailed timeline for inviting and accepting papers and presenters for the workshop should be presented:
- If there is going to be a proceedings for the workshop, would you like the proceedings to appear alongside ACM-BCB proceedings?
- Past year experiences, lessons learned, and plan to improve.
- Any changes of plans compared to last year. 
 
Proposers are requested to implement the proposed plan only after hearing about the final acceptance notification of the proposed workshop.
 
Submission procedure:
Each workshop proposal can be up to 6 pages (11pt Times New Roman, single line spacing, 1” page margins on all sides, PDF format). The proposers are requested to address all the details listed above in their proposal. Submissions are handled via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acmbcb2020 (select the track for Workshop Proposals). Please refer to the conference webpage https://acm-bcb.org/ for further updates on the submission information.
 
Workshop Co-Chairs:
  Xia Ning, Ohio State University, USA
  Wei Zhang, University of Central Florida, USA
 
General Chairs:
  Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology
  Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University
  May D. Wang, Georgia Institute of Technology