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BIOINFORMATICS is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The International Conference on Bioinformatics Models, Methods and Algorithms brings together researchers and practitioners to explore cutting-edge computational approaches addressing fundamental challenges in bioinformatics and biomedical research. As biological data continues to grow in volume, variety, and complexity, there is an urgent need to develop and refine mathematical, statistical, and computational techniques—particularly AI and machine learning methods—that can effectively analyze, integrate, and derive meaningful insights from multi-omics datasets.
The conference emphasizes innovative algorithmic solutions, modeling frameworks, and computational methods that advance our understanding of biological systems across scales. Areas of interest include AI/ML applications in bioinformatics, deep learning for biological data analysis, systems biology and biological networks, multi-omics data integration, single-cell analytics, precision medicine approaches, computational drug discovery and repurposing, structural bioinformatics, sequence analysis, biomedical image analysis, and related emerging fields. The conference particularly welcomes interdisciplinary approaches that bridge computational methods with biological and clinical applications.






CONFERENCE TOPICS


  • Simulation and Modeling
  • Computational Approaches for Drug Repurposing and Design
  • Advanced Pattern Recognition and Representation Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence, and AI in Bioinformatics
  • Model Design and Evaluation
  • Transcriptomics
  • Genomics and Proteomics
  • Sequence Analysis
  • Structural Bioinformatics
  • Databases and Data Management : Data Mining, Data Integration, Data Visualization, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems
  • Biomedical Image Analysis
  • Computational Neuroscience
  • Machine Learning Algorithms, Data Mining Techniques and Deep Learning Tools
  • Biostatistics and Stochastic Models
  • Pharmaceutical Applications
  • Systems Biology and Computational Network Biology
  • Computational Molecular Systems
  • Integration and Analysis of Genomic and Proteomic Data
  • Single-cell and Spatial Omics Analysis
  • Application of Big Data and Machine Learning in Drug Design and Discovery
  • Precision Medicine and Data-Driven Healthcare and Clinical Decision Support Systems
  • Microbiome Analysis and Metagenomic Approaches
  • Analysis of Biological Networks
  • Spatial Omics and Spatial Transcriptomics
  • Multi-modal Data Integration in Bioinformatics
  • Federated Learning and Privacy
  • Graph Neural Networks for Biological Network Analysis
  • AI for Protein Structure Prediction and Design
  • Explainable AI for Biological Interpretation
  • Computational Approaches for Vaccine and Therapeutic Design
  • Digital Twins in Systems Biology and Personalized Medicine
  • AI and Deep Learning: Algorithms, Tools, and Applications in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

BIOINFORMATICS 2026 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. Authors should also avoid using an excessive number of self-citations.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 2 - 4 March, 2026

Paper Submission: October 2, 2025
Authors Notification: December 4, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: December 19, 2025

Paper Submission: November 13, 2025
Authors Notification: December 19, 2025
Camera Ready and Registration: January 13, 2026

Workshops
Workshop Proposal: October 29, 2025

Special Sessions
Special Session Proposal: October 29, 2025

Tutorials
Tutorial Proposal: January 23, 2026

Demos
Demo Proposal: January 23, 2026

Panels
Panel Proposal: January 23, 2026

SECRETARIAT

BIOINFORMATICS Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
             2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: bioinformatics.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://bioinformatics.scitevents.org

VENUE

Available soon.

CONFERENCE CHAIR

Available soon.

PROGRAM CHAIR

Francesco Mercaldo, University of Molise, Campobasso, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan
Kazim Yalcin Arga, Marmara University, Turkey
Endre Barta, University of Debrecen, Hungary
Payam Behzadi, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Iran, Islamic Republic of
Vincenzo Bonnici, University of Parma, Italy
Juan Caballero Pérez, Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico
Jean-Paul Comet, Univesité Côte d'Azur, France
Thomas Dandekar, University of Würzburg, Germany
Stefano Di Carlo, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
Riccardo Dondi, Department of Philosophy and Communication, University of ``Studi di Bergamo'', Italy
Oliver Eulenstein, Iowa State University, United States
Maria Evelina Fantacci, University of Pisa and INFN, Italy
Stephen P. Ficklin, Washington State University, United States
Giulia Fiscon, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
Jean Fred Fontaine, Central Institute for Decision Support Systems in Crop Protection (ZEPP), RP, Germany
Milana Frenkel-Morgenstern, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
Alexandra Bettina Graf, FH Campus Wien - University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Michael Gribskov, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, United States
Michiaki Hamada, Waseda University, Japan
Steffen Heber, North Carolina State University, United States
Tao Huang, Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Junguk Hur, University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, United States
Ajay Jain, Independent Researcher, India
Guangxu Jin, Wake Forest University, United States
Andrzej Kloczkowski, Ohio State University, United States
Ivan V. Kulakovskiy, IPR RAS, Russian Federation
Man-Kee Lam, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia
Lars Malmström, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Michal Marczyk, Silesian University of Technology, Poland
Enzo Martegani, University of Milano-bicocca, Italy
Paolo Milazzo, Università di Pisa, Italy
Chilukuri Mohan, Syracuse University, United States
José Manuel Molina, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Camilo Palazuelos, University of Cantabria, Spain
Graziano Pesole, University of Bari, Italy
Javier Reina-Tosina, University of Seville, Spain
Vincent Rodin, UBO, LabSTICC/CNRS, France
Giulia Russo, University of Catania, Italy
Yutaka Saito, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan
Andrew Schumann, University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland
Karel Sedlar, Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic
João C. Setubal, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil
Jianting Sheng, Houston Methodist Research Institute, United States
Tiratha Raj Singh, Jaypee University of Information Technology, India
Sylvain Soliman, Inria Saclay, France
Antonio Starcevic, Laboratory for Bioinformatics, University of Zagreb, Croatia
Martin Swain, IBERS, Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom
Giorgio Valentini, University of Milan, Italy
Nicola Vitulo, University of Verona, Italy
Hairong Wei, Michigan Technological University, United States
Loo Keat Wei, Faculty of Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia
Massimiliano Zanin, Instituto de Física Interdisciplinar y Sistemas Complejos IFISC-CSIC, Spain

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