 | GLBIO 2025: Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference 2025 The Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis Minneapolis, MN, United States, May 12-15, 2025 |
| Conference website | https://www.iscb.org/glbio2025/home |
| Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=glbio2025 |
| Abstract registration deadline | March 3, 2025 |
| Submission deadline | March 3, 2025 |
Join us in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States for the 17th annual Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference. The conference will begin on Monday, May 12, 2025 and conclude on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
GLBIO is organized by the Great Lakes Bioinformatics Consortium to provide an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion of research findings and methods. An important goal for the conference is to foster long term collaborative relationships and networking opportunities within the domain of computational approaches to biology.
The conference will feature:
- Invited Keynote Speakers
- Tutorials and Special Sessions
- Oral Presentations
- Poster Presentations
GLBIO 2025 will be a dual channel distribution conference, offering both in-person and virtual attendance. We hope you will join us at The Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis Hotel. If you are unable, we hope you consider joining virtually on the conference's robust platform.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are invited for full papers, oral presentation abstracts, and posters at the 17th Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference, an official conference of the International Society for Computational Biology. This is an invitation to scientists and professionals working in the fields of bioinformatics and computational biology to submit high quality original research papers for presentation at GLBIO 2025. Authors of papers and oral abstracts that are accepted to the conference will present their work at the conference (longer talks for full papers, shorter talks for the abstracts). Accepted full papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Bioinformatics Advances.
Special Sessions: Authors can request consideration by special sessions in Easychair. Special Sessions for GLBIO 2025 are only considering abstracts. Please carefully review the information below before submitting in Easychair.
Session Titles:
- Machine Learning for Isoform-level Gene regulation – ML-IsoGene
- Empowering Biological Research with Data-driven Experimental Design
Full Paper for Oral Presentation
For a variety of reasons, ISCB/GLBC strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB/GLBC requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than April 14, 2025. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.org
The Bioinformatics Advances Journal has committed to considering publication of a special issue for peer-reviewed articles from the conference.
In addition to the standard submission information, authors are expected to submit a PDF of the written article following the preparation guidelines as outlined by Bioinformatics Advances
Article submissions will close February 3, 2025, initial review will be done and authors will have an opportunity to update and prepare their final manuscripts. The final date for updates will be March 3, 2025. Bioinformatics Advances will have the opportunity to review the papers and provide comments. We will give authors one month to reply to comments in order to have the list of accepted articles at the end of March. Outstanding articles will be selected for featuring talks.
Authors are responsible for all publishing fees.
Abstracts for Oral Presentation or Poster
Abstracts for Oral Presentation submissions to GLBIO 2025 should be approximately 400 words and have no figures. Adding references to already published papers is recommended where appropriate. Submission deadline in Easychair is March 3, 2025.
For a variety of reasons, ISCB/GLBC strongly prefers that scientific research accepted for oral presentation be presented in-person at the conference venue. We understand that some presenters will have valid reasons to avoid in-person attendance. ISCB will grant remote presentation options for reasons associated with maternity/paternity leave, care for a family member, personal/medical disability, sickness, financial hardship, or potential visa problems. If your research is accepted for oral presentation and you are unable to present in person, ISCB/GLBC requires notification at the time of acceptance and no later than April 14, 2025. You will be asked during your confirmation of participation to confirm your in-person participation. If unable to participate you will need to request a waiver by writing presentationwaiver@iscb.org
Any abstracts submitted after the deadline will be included only at the discretion of the conference chairs, and will be eligible for poster presentations only. Please also note that we can only allow one abstract per presenting author.
In-Person Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your printed poster should not exceed the following dimensions: 46 inches wide by 46 inches high. There will be 1 or 2 poster per side on the each poster board. Additionally, we ask that you also follow the Virtual Poster Hall information below in addition to your in-person presentation. This ensures all posters are viewable to both in-person and virtual attendees thus providing more exposure to your work.
Virtual Poster Hall: When preparing accepted posters please note that your poster will need to be uploaded via the virtual platform portal in two formats - a PDF of the poster and a 5-7 minute flash talk video not to exceed 100MB. Poster portal information will be sent to all approved posters closer to the conference and after the notification deadline. All presentations MUST be uploaded on specific dates the week of April 22*. More specific dates will be given closer to the conference.
*Late Breaking posters will have a very short turn-around.
List of Topics
- Algorithms & Machine Learning
- Bioinformatics Education
- Biostatistics
- Cheminformatics
- Clinical & Health Informatics
- Databases, Ontologies & Biocuration
- Disease Models & Molecular Medicine
- Epidemiology & Biodiversity
- Evolutionary, Comparative Genomics & Phylogenetics
- Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics
- Genome Informatics
- Image Analysis
- Macromolecular Structure & Function
- Metagenomics
- Microbiome Informatics
- Network Biology
- Proteomics & Metabolomics
- Sequence Analysis
- Synthetic Biology
- Systems Modeling
- Text Mining & Natural Language Processing
- Visualization
Committees
Organizing Committee
Program Chairs
- Chad Myers, University of Minnesota
- Feng Yue, Northwestern University
Publication Chair
- Mingfu Shao, Pennsylvania State University
Poster Chairs
- Guenter Tusch, Grand Valley State University
- Helen Piontkivska, Kent State University
Travel Fellowship Chairs
- Dan DeBlasio, Carnegie Mellon University
- Getiria Onsongo, Macalester College
Steering Committee
- Bruce Aronow, Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati
- Gary Bader, University of Toronto
- Robert Blumenthal, University of Toledo
- Serdar Bozdag, University of Northern Texas
- Sarath Chandra Janga, Indiana University-Perdue University
- Maria Chikina, University of Pittsburgh
- Sorin Draghici, Wayne State University
- Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University
- Bruno Gaeta, University of New South Wales (Ex Officio)
- Anthony Gitter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University
- Dan Knights, University of Minnesota
- Jundong Liu, Ohio University
- Shaun Mahony, Pennslyvania State University
- Tijana Milenkovic, University of Notre Dame
- Chad Myers, University of Minnesota
- Layla Oesper, Carleton College
- Aida Ouangraoua, Universite de Sherbrooke
- John Parkinson, Hospital for Sick Children
- Catherine Putonti, Loyola University
- Predrag Radivojac, Northeastern University
- Sushmita Roy, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University (Co-Chair)
- Lonnie Welch, Ohio University (Co-Chair)
- Jeff Xia, McGill University
- Feng Yue, Northwestern University
Additional Support
- Bel Hanson, ISCB, Director of Operations and Programs
- Diane Kovats, ISCB, Chief Executive Officer
- Justine Morris, ISCB, Coordinator of Operations and Programs
- Seth Munholland, ISCB, Lead Technologist
- Maddie Thomas, ISCB, Community Engagement Liaison
- Mallory Wiper, ISCB, Communications Specialist
Publication
GLBIO2025 proceedings will be published in the Bioinformatics Advances Journal, by Oxford Univeristy Press, has committed to considering publication of a special issue for peer-reviewed articles from the conference.
Venue
The conference will be held at The Graduate by Hilton Minneapolis Hotel in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Program activities will begin on Monday, May 12, 2025 and conclude on Thursday, May 15, 2025.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to events@iscb.org.