Call for Papers

We are delighted to invite you to the 19th InCoB. The conference will be virtually hosted for the first time. InCoB 2020 takes on the theme of “Bioinformatics and the translation of data-driven discoveries”, and will cover discussions in keynote and plenary sessions, presentations of original research results as parallel tracks, including special sessions, lightning talks, poster sessions, workshops, software demos and panel discussions related to the field of bioinformatics. This is a great opportunity for you to showcase your research!

InCoB 2020 accepts submission in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology including but not limited to:

● Big data in biology: analytics, machine learning methods and data sets
● Bioimaging
● Bioinformatics applications
● Bioinformatics models, methods and algorithms
● Biological sequence analysis
● Bio-ontology and semantics
● Clinical bioinformatics
● Data mining and biomedical knowledge discovery
● Database management
● Drug design and discovery
● Protein interactions and diseases
● Protein folding and conformational diseases
● Genetics of cell differentiation and reprogramming
● Genome and proteome manipulation
● Genomics
● High through-put omics and imaging platforms
● Immunoinformatics
● Medical and health informatics
● Metabolomics
● Metagenomics
● Microarray analysis
● Molecular evolution and phylogeny
● Next generation sequencing
● Population genetics
● Proteomics
● Scalable data storage
● Structural bioinformatics
● Synthetic Biology
● System Biology
● Translational Bioinformatics
● Workflow and knowledge management

1. Full Paper Submissions

Journal wise submission details are provided below:

● BMC Genomics
● BMC Medical Genomics
● BMC Bioinformatics
● BMC Molecular and Cell Biology
● PeerJ
● Computational Biology and Chemistry (CBAC)
● MDPI Genes
● Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology‎ (JBCB)
● Quantitative Biology
● Frontiers Journals Research Topic Collection

2. Detailed Instructions for Full Paper Submissions

All submitting authors are required to submit together with the manuscript a cover letter clearly stating the name of their preferred journal (e.g. BMC Genomics).

In the cover letter, the corresponding author should provide full contact details: complete mailing address, telephone, and fax contact numbers and e-mail address(es). The corresponding author must certify that the work submitted is original and has not been submitted elsewhere for publication. Furthermore, if accepted, the corresponding author must agree to pay the specified article processing charges as well as reformat the accepted version of the manuscript in accordance with the journal requirements. At least one author of any accepted manuscript must be an APBioNet member (https://www.apbionet.org/membership), clear the conference registration fee, and participate in the virtual to deliver the oral presentation. The conference organisers will negotiate a lower rate with the journal publishers, where possible.

The corresponding author should certify that the work should be MiABi (Minimum Information About a Bioinformatics Investigation) compliant – with submissions containing new gene expression data (RNAseq, microarray) or sequence data must have been deposited with NCBI and accessions obtained. The files must be accessible to reviewers, no part of the manuscript has been reproduced from another copyrighted source without permission or proper attribution, or has been inappropriately used, in order to avoid possible plagiarism or self-plagiarism issues. We further recommend that the authors kindly check the originality of their manuscript using any standard online anti-plagiarism software tool.

Example of Template Declaration to be included in the cover letter:
“We, the Authors collectively and individually declare that to our best ability, we have ensured that the submission made herein, including the main paper, supplementary data, deposited data, database entries, software code, does not contain any plagiarized material, content or ideas, and that all necessary attributions have been appropriately made and all copyright permissions obtained, cited and acknowledged.

”We reserve the right to return manuscripts that do not correspond with the prescribed format of the selected journal without review. If not well suited for publication in the preferred journal, the authors may be offered the opportunity to transfer the manuscript for consideration in another journal. The cover letter should be uploaded as a PDF, Word or Text file.

Journal Choices

BMC Genomics

considers all aspects of genome-scale analysis, functional genomics, proteomics, “big data” and “giga” science. Instructions for BMC Genomicsauthors:
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines

BMC Medical Genomics

considers articles on all aspects of functional genomics, genome structure, genome-scale population genetics, epigenomics, proteomics, systems analysis, and pharmacogenomics in relation to human health and disease. Instructions for BMC Medical Genomics authors: https://bmcmedgenomics.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines

BMC Molecular and Cell Biology

formerly known as BMC Cell Biology, is an open access journal that considers articles on all aspects of both eukaryotic and prokaryotic cell and molecular biology, including structural and functional cell biology, DNA and RNA in a cellular context and biochemistry, as well as research using both the experimental and theoretical aspects of physics to study biological processes and investigations into the structure of biological macromolecules. Instructions for BMC Molecular and Cell Biology authors: https://bmcmolcellbiol.biomedcentral.com/submission-guidelines

BMC Bioinformatics

considers all aspects of the development, testing and novel application of computational and statistical methods for the modeling and analysis of all kinds of biological data, as well as other areas of computational biology. Instructions for authors:

Please read the descriptions of each of the article types (research article, methodology article, database article and software article), choose which is appropriate for your work and structure the manuscript accordingly. If in doubt, your manuscript should be formatted as a Research article.

The start date for BMC submissions is July 1, 2020.

All manuscripts for BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, and BMC Medical Genomics must be submitted directly through the BMC supplement issue editorial management system. Manuscripts not complying to formatting, submissions and supplementary data guidelines of the respective BMC journals will be returned to authors without peer review. The peer review will be handled through the BMC EM system. The article publication charges for accepted manuscripts will be directly invoiced and collected by BMC.

The link for BMC submission for InCoB 2020 is:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/supp

Submission Guide For Authors

PeerJ

PeerJ (https://peerj.com/) is an open access peer-reviewed scientific mega journal covering research in the biological and medical sciences. Instructions for authors: https://peerj.com/about/author-instructions/

Papers for this journal need to be submitted directly to the PeerJ website
https://peerj.com/about/preprints/scope-and-instructions/

When authors transfer their paper from PeerJ pre-prints to PeerJ they are requested to specify in their PeerJeditor cover letter that the paper is intended for InCoB 2020. Publication charges for PeerJ are nominal and can be found out on the journal website. Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for PeerJ will be invited to register for InCoB 2020 and present their work there.

Computational Biology and Chemistry (CBAC)

Computational Biology and Chemistry is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier covering all areas of computational life sciences. (https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computational-biology-and-chemistry). Papers for this journal will be submitted to and reviewed through EasyChair. There are NO publication charges for CBAC.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for CBAC will be invited to register for InCoB 2020 and present their work there. Even though CBAC will not review the papers again but the technical check, such as plagiarism tests may be carried out and a paper may not be finally published in CBAC for this reason, if high matches are detected. Also, the papers in CBAC will be published as an InCoB 2020-specific section in a regular issue instead of having a full issue dedicated to the conference.

To submit a paper to CBAC, please prepare your manuscript in a PDF format and upload it to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2020

Please also include a cover letter mentioning that the paper is to be considered for CBAC

MDPI Genes

Genes is a peer-reviewed open access journal of genetics and genomics published monthly online by MDPI. A brief description includes:

Open Access: Free for readers, with article processing charges (APC) paid by authors or their institutions.
High Visibility: Covered by Science Citation Index Expanded (Web of Science) and Scopus. Citations are
available in PubMed, full-text archived in PubMed Central.
Rapid Publication: manuscripts are peer-reviewed and a first decision provided to authors approximately 15.3 days after submission; acceptance to publication is undertaken in 2.6 days (median values for papers
published in this journal in the first half of 2020).
Recognition of Reviewers: Reviewers who provide timely, thorough peer-review reports receive vouchers entitling them to a discount on the APC of their next publication in any MDPI journal, in appreciation of the work done.
Impact Factor: 3.759 (2019) ; 5-Year Impact Factor: 3.822 (2019)

To submit a paper to Genes, please prepare your manuscript in a MS Word / LaTeX format and upload it to: https://www.mdpi.com/journal/genes/special_issues/InCoB_2020

Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB)

Instruction for authors are available here:

https://www.worldscientific.com/page/jbcb/submission-guidelines >

Submissions to JBCB should be submitted to editorial manager below and select “InCoB2020” as the special issue:

https://www.editorialmanager.com/JBCB/default.aspx

Quantitative Biology (QB)

Instruction for authors are available here:
https://www.springer.com/journal/40484/submission-guidelines

Submissions to Quantitative Biology (QB) should be submitted to: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob2020

Please also include a cover letter mentioning that the paper is to be considered for QB.

Frontiers Journals as part of a Research Topic Collection

Research Topic collection theme: Bioinformatics and the translation of data-driven discoveries
Articles submitted as part of the research topic, in collaboration with InCoB2020, can be published in Frontiers in Genetics, Frontiers in Bioinformatics (new journal which will launch), Frontiers in Big Data and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. Authors can select their preferred Journal for publication. Submissions for this Research Topic collection need to be submitted directly to the Frontiers website for the peer-review process to begin:
https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/16558

Important Note: All contributions to this Research Topic must be within the scope of the section and journal to which they are submitted, as defined in their mission statements. Frontiers reserves the right to guide an out-of-scope manuscript to a more suitable section or journal at any stage of peer review.