[Infovis] BioVis 2016: Announcement and CFP

[Jillian Aurisano]

BioVis 2016

BioVis SIG (highlights and posters track) at ISMB in Orlando, FL

July 8th, 2016

BioVis (papers, posters, contest track) at IEEE VIS in Baltimore, MD

October 24th, 2016

http://www.biovis.net

#biovis

BioVis 2016 is the 6th Symposium on Biological Data Visualization, an
interdisciplinary event covering all aspects of visualization in biology. The
Symposium 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 articles, 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. Poster
submissions can be submitted to either the BioVis SIG meeting at ISMB, or
to the BioVis symposium at VIS. Paper and Contest submissions can only be
submitted to the BioVis symposium at VIS.

All accepted papers for the conference will be linked on the BioVis website
(http://www.biovis.net) and will be made available through the IEEE Digital
Library and/or BMC Proceedings. In addition, all papers accepted for the
conference will be considered for publication in the BMC Bioinformatics
journal (impact factor 2.6), as part of the conference two-round review
process.

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.

Important Dates:

Paper submission: April 29, 2016

Poster submission to the BioVis SIG meeting at ISMB: May 15, 2016

Poster submission to the BioVis symposium at IEEE VIS: August 26, 2016

Contest entry submission: TBD (In-line with Sage Bionetworks DREAM
challenge deadlines)

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

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)