The 25th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB/ISCB-APAC 2026)
“Where Bioinformatics Meets AI – Unlocking the Next Era of Discovery”
The Organising Committee of InCoB/ISCB-APAC 2026 cordially invites researchers, academicians, clinicians, industry professionals, and postgraduate students to submit original research abstracts and full papers for presentation and publication consideration.
Conference Scope and Topics
Submissions are invited in (but not limited to) the following areas:
- 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
- Immunoinformatic
- 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
Types of Submissions
InCoB/ISCB-APAC 2026 offers submissions to four (4) tracks:
Abstract only (for oral or poster presentation)
Full Paper for initial review of complete original manuscripts for post-conference submission to Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics along with an Abstract;
Late Breaking Abstracts of recent high impact publications:
Proposals for Tutorials along with an Abstract.
Submission Format
All submissions must be prepared using the appropriate templates provided, depending on the track selected. Please note that once prepared, the files should be converted to PDF format. The Full paper and Proposal tracks require an abstract to be prepared as well, for compiling the Book for Abstracts.
If accepted, one unique author from each submission agrees to register for the conference and present the work described.
Submissions that are not formatted as requested risk desk rejection.
Conference Policy
All submissions must be written in English.
Authors are responsible for proofreading and language accuracy before submission.
As abstracts will be printed in the PDF Book of Abstracts, authors should not present any details/data/results that cannot be made available publicly.
Opportunities to publish post-conference in peer-reviewed journals will be provided to conference attendees and will go through journal-specific submission, review and separate article publication charge (APC) payment direct to the journal, if applicable.
Ethical Requirements
All submissions (excluding the Highlights track) must comply with the following ethical standards:
Work presented must be original and unpublished, not under consideration elsewhere
Plagiarism, data fabrication, and image manipulation are strictly prohibited.
Studies involving human participants or animals must state approval from relevant ethics committees.
Authors must declare conflicts of interest and funding sources, where applicable.
Submissions may be screened using plagiarism-detection software.
Important Dates
| Submission Key dates | |
|---|---|
| March 1, 2026 | Call for Submission |
| May 17, 2026 | Deadline for Proceedings, Tutorials and Early Abstracts (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions* |
| June 15, 2026 | Early acceptance notifications begin |
| June 22, 2026 | Travel grant application deadline |
| July 13, 2026 | Travel grant award notification |
| August 10, 2026 | Deadline for Late Breaking Abstract submission (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions* |
| August 14, 2026 | Late Breaking Abstract acceptance notification |
| August 24, 2026 | Presenter registration deadline |
| August 24, 2026 | Confirmation of participation form submission deadline (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions* |
| Registration Key Dates | |
|---|---|
| April 1, 2026 | Early Bird Registration (Open) |
| August 1, 2026 | Deadline for Early Bird Registration |
| August 24, 2026 | Presenter registration deadline |
| August 24, 2026 | Confirmation of participation form submission deadline (You have until 23:59 Anywhere on Earth) *no extensions* |
| September 17, 2026 | Closing of Registration |
| September 17, 2026 | Announcement of APBioNET Award |
Submission Site
All submissions in PDF format must be uploaded to the conference EasyChair submission site:
New EasyChair users can set up an account using the following link:
https://easychair.org/account/create
Email submissions are not acceptable.
Reviewing
All submissions will be checked for appropriate content and then reviewed by at least three (3) Program Committee members. The full paper submission track is to shortlist papers that can be submitted to the InCoB/ISCB-APAC Proceedings issue of Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, post-conference, for peer review as required by Springer-Nature.
Submissions deemed acceptable will be discussed by the conference Organizing Committee for allocation of oral, poster and proposal presentation. Submissions for oral presentation may be offered poster presentation instead.
Presentation and Publication
Post-acceptance, submissions will be provided presentation guidelines separately.
At least one unique author of each accepted submission will need to register for the conference.
Accepted submissions will be scheduled for oral, poster or workshop presentation, subject to registration requirements.
Selected full papers will be offered onward submission for publication in conference proceedings.
Accepted abstracts will also be invited to submit full papers in conference journal special issues, to be confirmed post-conference.
Questions
Contact Information
For enquiries, please contact:
Scientific Committee ([email protected])