New Research Track and Highlights Track Abstracts

The BioVis 2016 New Research track offers a venue to present and discuss new research, i.e. unpublished, results in the area of biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a 500 word abstract with two supporting figures and are presented at the conference as oral presentations during in a thematically appropriate session.

The BioVis 2016 Highlights track offers authors of previously published work related to biological data visualization a venue to present and discuss their work as well as additional research since the original publication in front of an expert audience. Submissions take the form of a 500 word abstract with two supporting figures and are presented at the conference as oral presentations during in a thematically appropriate session.

Please see the Call for Participation for details about topics of interest.

Important Dates

EXTENDED May 10, 2016 - Abstract submission for New Research and Highlights Track of the BioVis SIG meeting at ISMB

May 20, 2016 - Author notification for New Research and Highlights track

Submission

Submission System for BioVis@ISMB: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biovis2016ismb

The following items are required for a complete New Research Track or Highlight Track submission:

1. A 500 word text-only abstract describing the research. It is critical to clarify the target biological problem, the role of visualization, and the work’s relevance to BioVis.
2. A two figures representative of the work in JPG or PNG format. It is particularly helpful for these figures to illustrate how visualization is being employed to address the biological problem and it will be used as part of the poster submission reviewing process. An accompanying figure legend should be included in the appropriate field of the online submission form.
3. One thumbnail image that will be used when posting the abstract on the BioVis web site (accepted posters only). The image must be a 400x300 pixel JPG or PNG file.

We strongly encourage, but do not require, all authors to include an accompanying video or other supplementary materials. Please limit supplementary material to widely accepted file formats such as MPEG (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov) or AVI (.avi) for videos; PDF for documents; and PNG or JPG for images. Please refer to the section Deadlines above for links to the conference submission systems.

Review Process

Each New Research and Highlights Track submission will be read and evaluated by the BioVis@ISMB 2016 organizers for quality and relevance to the BioVis venue with the goal of being as inclusive as possible and encouraging cross-domain interactions. Brief feedback will be provided as needed to support acceptance decisions, but authors should not expect detailed reviews. There will not be a revision cycle. Authors should check their initial abstract submission carefully as this is the copy that will appear on the BioVis web site.

New Research and Highlights Track Chairs

• Kay Nieselt, University of Tuebingen, Germany
• Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
• G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
• Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Contact: kay.nieselt@uni-tuebingen.de

Poster Track Abstracts

The BioVis 2016 Posters track offers a venue to present and discuss work in progress in biological data visualization. Submissions take the form of a 250 word abstract with one supporting figure and are presented at the conference site as large format posters during the poster session and reception.

Please see the Call for Participation for details about topics of interest.

Important Dates

May 17, 2016 - Poster submission for Poster Track of the BioVis SIG meeting at ISMB

May 20, 2016 - Author notification for Poster Track

Submission

Submission System for BioVis@ISMB: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=biovis2016ismb

The following items are required for a complete Poster Track submission:

1. A 250-word text-only abstract summarizing the subject matter of the poster. It is critical to clarify the target biological problem, the role of visualization, and the work’s relevance to BioVis.
2. A single figure representative of the work in JPG or PNG format. It is particularly helpful for this image to illustrate how visualization is being employed to address a biological problem and it will be used as part of the poster submission reviewing process. An accompanying figure legend should be included in the appropriate field of the online submission form.
3. One thumbnail image that will be used when posting the abstract on the BioVis web site (accepted posters only). The image must be a 400x300 pixel JPG or PNG file.

We strongly encourage, but do not require, all authors to include an accompanying video or other supplementary materials. Please limit supplementary material to widely accepted file formats such as MPEG (.mpg), QuickTime (.mov) or AVI (.avi) for videos; PDF for documents; and PNG or JPG for images. Please refer to the section Deadlines above for links to the conference submission systems.

The large format poster to be presented at the conference is not required for the submission.

Review Process

Each poster submission will be read and evaluated by the Poster Chairs for quality and relevance to the BioVis venue with the goal of being as inclusive as possible and encouraging cross-domain interactions. Brief feedback will be provided as needed to support acceptance decisions, but authors should not expect detailed reviews. There will not be a revision cycle. Authors should check their initial abstract submission carefully as this is the copy that will appear on the BioVis web site.

Poster Track Chairs

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

Contact: posters@biovis.net