BICOB-2026
18th International Conference
on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB'26)
March 23 - 25, 2026
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
Important Dates:
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BICOB-2026 is the 18th edition of the International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (BICOB-2026) and will be held between 23–25 March 2026 in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA . Started in 2009, BICOB presents itself as one of the most established and well-known bioinformatics and computational biology conferences. The conference is committed to providing an active atmosphere and venue for bioinformatics and computational biology scientists to connect, present and publish their research results, investigations, methods, and studies. BICOB-2026 includes a Best Paper Award to be presented during the conference banquet. BICOB-2026 seeks submissions and original contributions in bioinformatics, computational biology, systems biology, medical informatics and related areas. We also encourage work in progress and research results in the emerging and evolutionary computational areas. Work in the computational methods related to, or with application in, bioinformatics is also encouraged, including computational intelligence and its application in bioinformatics, bio-data mining and text mining, evolutionary algorithms, nature-inspired computation, machine learning and bio-NLP, biomedical ontology, biomathematics, modeling and simulation, pattern recognition, data visualization, biostatistics. The topics of interest include (and are not limited to):
Sequence analysis: Multiple sequence alignment, sequence search and clustering, next-generation sequencing NGS, function prediction, motif discovery, functional site recognition in protein, RNA and DNA sequences.
Genome analysis: Genome assembly, Next-Gen genomics and metagenomics, genome and chromosome annotation, gene finding, alternative splicing, EST analysis and comparative genomics.
Phylogenetics: Phylogeny estimation, models of evolution, comparative biological methods, population genetics.
Structural Bioinformatics: Structure matching, prediction, analysis and comparison; docking methods; protein design.
Analysis of high-throughput biological data: Microarrays (nucleic acid, protein, array CGH, genome tiling, and other arrays), EST, SAGE, MPSS, proteomics, mass spectrometry. Also, query languages, interoperability, bio-ontology and bio-data mining.
Genetics and population analysis: Linkage analysis, association analysis, population simulation, haplotyping, marker discovery, genotype calling.
Systems biology: Systems approaches to molecular biology, multiscale modeling, pathways, gene networks, transcriptomics - microarray data analysis, proteomics, epigenomics.
Healthcare Informatics: Healthcare data acquisition, analysis and mining. Clinical decision support systems, and healthcare information systems.
Computational Proteomics: Filtering and indexing sequence databases, Peptide quantification and identification, Genome annotations via mass spectrometry, Identification of post-translational modifications, Structural genomics via mass spectrometry, Protein-protein interactions, Computational approaches to the analysis of large scale Mass spectrometry data, Exploration and visualization of proteomic data, Data models and integration for proteomics and genomics, Querying and retrieval of proteomics and genomics data, ...etc.
All areas of computational and data-driven techniques with impact on life sciences are welcome, including big data, high-performance computing, GWAS, multi-omics studies; and emerging topics like Covid-19, Sars-Cov-2, and the related topics.
Publication and Indexing:
Accepted papers in BICOB-2026 will be published (full text online) in Springer (Springer CCIS series: electronic ISSN 1865-0937, print ISSN 1865-0929) and will be indexed in Scopus, Google Scholar, EI, and INSPEC, and submitted to DBLP for indexing.Journal Publication:
Authors of selected papers in BICOB-2026 will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers for possible publication in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB).Important Dates:
| Paper Submission Deadline | November 30, 2025 |
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| Notification of Acceptance | January 20, 2026 |
| Camera-Ready Final Manuscript | January 26, 2026. (Word, PDF files of final paper and License to publish due.) |
| Registration due: | February 5, 2026 |
| Conference: | March 23-25, 2026 BICOB-2026 in Honolulu, HI, USA |
Program ChairKazi Lutful Kabir |
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Publicity Chair
University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
+1 (617) 287-6414
nurit.haspel@umb.edu