[Infovis] BioVis at Vis 2016 Updated Call for Participation

[Jillian Aurisano]

BioVis 2016

BioVis at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD

October 23rd, 2016


http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/

#biovis



*Important Dates:*


Paper submission (one-page IEEE abstract): April 29, 2016

BMC manuscript submission: May 6, 2016

Poster submission: August 26, 2016

Design Contest submission: September 23, 2016


All deadlines are at 5:00 pm Pacific Time (PDT).


BioVis 2016 is the 6th Meeting on Biological Data Visualization, an
interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The
meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics,
and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and
engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data
visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in
state-of-the-art visualization research. It is hosted as a one-day
single-track event at VIS (http://ieeevis.org) and a SIG half-day meeting
at ISMB (https://www.iscb.org/ismb2016).


We invite submissions of original research, poster submissions, as well as
submissions for data visualization and redesign contests. We invite
contributions on all aspects of data visualization in biology, from
molecular to cell, tissue, organism and population biology. Paper and
Contest submissions can only be submitted to the BioVis meeting at VIS.

All accepted abstracts for the conference will be linked on the BioVis
website (http://www.biovis.net). All abstracts accepted into the conference
will be considered for publication, once extended into papers, in the
thematic series on Biological Data Visualization of BMC Bioinformatics
(impact factor 2.6), as part of a two-round review process. We are
currently working with IEEE on confirming the publishing model as described
in this Call for Participation, i.e., an open access publication with BMC
Bioinformatics. Should this model not be realized, the manuscripts will be
indexed under IEEE.


All accepted poster submissions will be made available on the BioVis
website.


Data Analysis and Design Contest entries that are accepted, and deemed to
make a significant contribution to the field, will be invited to submit
full manuscripts for inclusion in the BMC Bioinformatics journal.


*Submission Guidelines:* Authors are required to submit a 1-page abstract
for the conference due Apr 29th, and an extended, full BMC paper due May
6th. Note that due to copyright regulations, the 1-page abstract text must
be completely different from the extended paper text (including the
BMC-style paper abstract.) For the BMC manuscript, please use the templates
provided on the http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/  website. When formatting
the IEEE abstract, please use the template provided at:

http://junctionpublishing.org/vgtc/Tasks/camera_tvcg.html


*Keynote Talk: *

Sheelagh Carpendale

University of Calgary


General chairs

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   G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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   Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium


Paper chairs

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   Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany
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   Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria


Poster chairs

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   Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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   William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA


Publication chairs

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   Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA
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   Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA


Primer & challenges chair

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   Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland


Highlights chair

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   Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia


Data contest chairs

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   Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA
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   Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK


Design contest chairs

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   Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium
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   Francis Rowland, EBI, UK


Industry and fundraising chair

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   Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA


Website chairs

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   Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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   Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada


Publicity chairs

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   Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA


Steering Committee

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   Kay Nieselt <http://it.inf.uni-tuebingen.de/>, University of Tuebingen,
   Germany
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   Nils Gehlenborg <http://www.gehlenborg.com/>, Harvard Medical School, USA
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   Jessie Kennedy <http://www.iidi.napier.ac.uk/c/people/peopleid/41>,
   Edinburgh Napier University, UK
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   Jos Roerdink <http://www.cs.rug.nl/~roe/>, University of Groningen, The
   Netherlands
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   Raghu Machiraju <http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~raghu>, The Ohio State
   University, USA (Chair)