XIV Symposium on Bioinformatics at Granada

About JBI 2018

In collaboration with the University of Granada, the Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENyO), the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the Spanish Institute of Bioinformatics and the Spanish Bioinformatics Network we are pleased to present the XIV Symposium on Bioinformatics (#JBI2018).

As in previous editions, the main aim of this meeting is to serve as forum to present and discuss the last research developments in the Bioinformatics field. We are delighted invite you to submit and present your work in the following topics:

Structural Bioinformatics and Function
Translational Bioinformatics
NGS applications
Omics technologies
Systems Biology
Integrative Bioinformatics
Phylogeny and Evolution
Special Session: Highlights
Special Session: Student Symposium
Special Session: ELIXIR-ES

This year we have three outstanding keynote speakers: Dr. Janet Kelso, head of the Bioinformatics research group at the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany. Dr. Julio Saez-Rodriguez , Professor of Medical Bioinformatics and Data Analysis at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Heidelberg and Maria Rodriguez Martinez, technical lead of the group of Systems Biology at IBM Research – Zürich As special Highlight of the conference we will have a round-table organized by Fundación Instituto Roche during the 2^nd day about: “Personalized medicine into healthcare: Challenges for Bioinformatics” The Student Symposium will take place at Centre for Genomics and Oncological Research (GENYO). This is a meeting point for students and young researchers will be organized the day before the start of the Conference (November, 13^th). The Symposium will include research communications presented by participating students, social activities and a special career advise talk by one of the keynote speakers. We hope to meet you in Granada!

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

Abstracts should be loaded into our Easychair submission system (Link: Easychair JBI2018). The JBI2018 Program Committee welcomes abstract submissions for oral presentations and scientific posters including, but not limited, to the following topics:

Structural Bioinformatics and Function
Translational Bioinformatics
NGS applications
Omics technologies
Systems Biology
Integrative Bioinformatics
Phylogeny and Evolution
Special Session: Highlights
Special Session: Student Symposium
Special Session: ELIXIR-ES

Key dates

The submission period has been extended to September 28^th! The results of the peer review by the committees will be announced in the week of October, 10^th 2018.

Abstracts booklet

Accepted contributions will be included in the abstracts booklet. Abstract must be written in English with one-page extension including Title, authors, abstract and references for oral presentations and title and authors for scientific poster contributions. Abstracts will be compiled and provided in the conference web.

How to submit your abstract?

Login to JBI2018 submission page provided by Easy-Chair.
Click on “New Submission” link on top of the screen.
Select the topic you want to submit your abstract, and click “Continue”.
Submission form appears, fill in with your abstract and related information.
- You can fill “N/A” on the text box that is irrelevant to you (such as “Fax”).
- At least one author and two keywords are required.
- If your abstract is plain-text, fill in the abstract text box, and also click on “Abstract only” in the Paper upload
- If your abstract contains formulae that cannot be displayed as plain text (or you want it to be well-formatted, etc.), please write some note in the the Abstract (at least two lines), and upload your true abstract in the Paper upload box. Click on “Submit Paper” button.
Submitted abstract can be modified later by loging-in and click on “My submissions”. The menu on the right will assist you with submission modification.

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