Call for full papers has now been closed. Call for submitting an abstract for poster and highlights track submission is open.

Click here for guidelines and submission link for Poster or Highlights Tracks.

 

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Call for Highlights Track

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InCoB 2018 call for Highlights presentation proposals
We invite proposals for "Highlights" presentations at the conference.  Highlights presentations are author presentations of their recently published research work. The number of Highlights track presentations is limited and the criterion of acceptance for such presentations will be much more stringent than the regular papers and posters accepted for InCoB 2018.

The Highlights proposals must be based on work that has been published as an original research paper in a high impact peer-reviewed journal after June 1, 2017. Unpublished and In Press papers, which are already accepted for publication by such a journal will also be considered.

Results published in multiple related papers can also be presented as a combined work, as long as one of the papers included qualifies by the above criteria.

The intent of the highlights track is to attract talks of broad interest to complement the often-technical nature of the full conference paper (also known as proceedings) track. The call is open to not only the first authors, but also to the corresponding or middle authors.  The proposal must indicate which author plans to deliver the talk.

 

Please note that the presenting author must register and pay for the conference At the most one oral presentation will be allowed for one accepted submission in Highlights track.

Proposals should include a concise description of the published work with full citation with an indication of why the talk based on this work would appeal to InCoB participants.

Proposals to the Highlights track should be submitted in the attached template through the online form at the URL on top of this page.

All Highlights proposals will be reviewed and authors will be informed if their abstract was accepted in this category.

 

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Call for Poster Presentation

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InCoB 2018 call for Poster presentation proposals

We invite you to submit a one page abstract based on which they will present a poster at IncoB 2018.

As in all other presentations, the presenting author must register and pay for the conference. Some of the Poster presenters may be selected for a flash Oral presentation.

Posters describe original or in progress work of the authors and may present an overall research summary of the lab from which it is submitted. Templates, guidelines and submission are available at the URL on top of this page.

 

All poster abstracts will be reviewed and authors will be informed if their abstract was accepted in this category.

 

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Brief call for papers (closed now)

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Please include in your submission a cover letter indicating for which journal your paper should be considered out of the choices available below.

 

Note 1:

If you only want to present a poster in the InCoB. we will shortly post a Call for posters with instructions on how to do it. For a poster only request of participation, full paper submission is NOT needed. 

For now, call for full paper is provided below. However, submissions made under full paper category may be rejected as full papers and accepted by the program committee for a poster presentation only.  

Note 2:

The publications charges will be collected by respective journals and are typically about 50% lower (for BMC) than those of the usual publication charges for regular articles. Exact figure will be available via BMC. If you wish to publish without an open access charge, please submit your paper by choosing "Computational Biology and Chemistry" as a the journal choice (see below).

 

Note 3

Quick submission liniks (please include cover letters, detailing the choice of journal with your submission and upload a single PDF file in all your submissions. Please prepare your manuscript file with all figures inside the main manuscript file.) :

Supplementary materials can be combined for submission being made into a single zipped file for upload. (this feature was not available for BMC submissions, which has not been upgraded, so it is available for all journals now).

For BMC journals editorial manager will be available after preliminary screening and supplementary material is not needed at this stage.

Submission to BMC series journals: https://ocs.springer.com/misc/home/InCoB2018

Submission to Bioinformatics/ Comp Biol Chem:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18

Submission to Gigascience/ PeerJ: (Two submissions needed):

www.biorxiv.org/

and

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18

 

 

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Full call for papers:

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The seventeenth International Conference on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (InCoB2018)

 Theme: "Bioinformatics for Big Data and Biomedical Sciences"

held at Jawaharlal Nehru Universiry, New Delhi September 26-28,, 2018.

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As in the past selected papers will be published in BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Systems Biology, Bioinformatics, PeerJ and GigaScience (under discussions).

InCoB 2018 will consist of

• Full papers,
• Highlights track,
• Poster session and
• Invited talks.

 

Submission of papers for Gigascience, PeerJ, JBCB, CBAC and Bioinformatics has started on February 18, 2018. Read the detailed instructions below.

BMC track submissions started from March 10, 2018.

 

 Instructions to authors for submitting full papers for InCoB2018 

As in the past InCoB2018 will coordinate the publication of selected papers in the leading journals of Bioinformatics. Authors, whose papers are accepted for publication in the process will be invited to the conference to give an oral presentation on the subject of their accepted papers (conditional upon timely completion of registration formalities).

InCoB 2018 is interested in all areas of Bioinformatics and computational biology including but not limited to:

 

Big data in biology: analytics, machine learning methods and data sets	Genome and proteome manipulation
Bioimaging	High through-put omics and imaging platforms
Bioinformatics models, methods & algorithms	Immunoinformatics
Biological sequence analysis	Medical and Health informatics
Bio-ontology and semantics	Metabolomics
Data mining and biomedical knowledge discovery	Metagenomics
Database management	Microarray analysis
Drug design and discovery	Next Generation Sequencing
Genetics of cell differentiation & reprogramming	Population Genetics
Genomics	Proteomics
Structural bioinformatics	Scalable data storage
Synthetic biology	Workflow and Knowledge Management
Systems biology

 

Authors are requested to choose one of the publication tracks (journal) listed in the following table, in which they wish their submission to be considered. Please note that the papers submission in one track will not be considered in another track except for the poster track in which all journal submissions will be automatically transferred if found suitable. The submission and review process is given in a nutshell in the table at the end of this page.

Journal wise submission details are provided below.

BMC journals:

BMC jounal paper submission has started. Please submit your paper below:

https://ocs.springer.com/misc/home/InCoB2018

Please note that you will have to register to the Springer OCS system to be able to manage your preliminary submission.

You should submit a cover letter with the paper indicating, in which journal you wish your paper to be considered. The choice for BMC includes:

• BMC Genomics
• BMC Bioinformatics,
• BMC Systems Biology and
• BMC Medical Genomics

After a preliminary screening of the suitability authors will be asked to submit their paper to the BMC supplement issue editorial management system.  Subsequently, the peer review will be handled through the BMC EM system. The article publications charges for accepted manuscripts will be directly invoiced and collected by BMC.

 

Gigascience:

Gigascience is an Oxford University Press journal and adopts an open review policy.  Papers for this journal will be submitted to Biorxiv.org. The IncoB PC will then connect these papers to preprint.space archives and an open review will be carried out. Publication charges depend on type of article and can be found out on the journal website.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for Gigascience will be invited to register for InCoB2018 and present their work there. However, please be informed that some of the papers recommended for Gigascience may be rejected by the journal in the second stage of the review, even if they are given an opportunity to present at InCoB.

To submit your paper for consideration to Gigascience, please submit it to www.biorxiv.org/. After you biorxiv submission is successful, please submit a cover letter stating your Biorxiv Manuscript ID and link to your Biorxiv submission paper to easychair. The link for easychair submission of all papers in InCoB2018 is https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18.

PeerJ:

Papers for this journal will be submitted to Biorxiv.org. The IncoB PC will then connect these papers to preprint.space archives and an open review will be carried out. Publication charges for PeerJ are nominal and can be found out on the journal website.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for PeerJ will be invited to register for InCoB2018 and present their work there. However, please be informed that some of the papers recommended for PeerJ may be rejected by the journal in the second stage of the review, even if they are given an opportunity to present at InCoB.

JBCB:

Papers for this journal will also be first submitted to Biorxiv.org. The IncoB PC will then connect these papers to preprint.space archives and an open review will be carried out. There are No publication charges for JBCB.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for JBCB will be invited to register for InCoB2018 and present their work there.

Papers accepted for JBCB will be published as a special issue of the journal. This issue is currently planned to be published in October 2018.

The workflow for JBCB publication of InCoB proceedings papers is as follows:

1. Paper submitted within the incob announced deadlines to Biorxiv.org.
2. A cover letter mentioning submitted manuscript and journal choice to be sent to easychair via: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18.
3. The initial recommended set ofmanuscripts (along with conference PC or other reviewer comments and author responses) reach JBCB by late in early July.
4. JBCB assigned editor makes quick accept/reject/revise decision by late July. At this stage, authors will be invited to present their work as Oral presentation or poster based on PC review. Oral presentation will be give to authors, whose papers have been accepted by JBCB. Others may be invited to present a poster. Invitations will conditional to completing registration.
5. Revised manuscripts, if applicable should be submitted to reach JBCB by late September for inclusion of their papers in December special issue.
6. The assigned editor makes final accept/reject/revise decision by early October. Any manuscript requiring further revision at this point will not be included in the special issue, but will be considered for a later regular issue.

Additional information for JBCB submissions:

7. Each paper, submitted to JBCB should have a length of 8-15 pages.
8. The JBCB publisher will impose a page charge for papers exceeding length limit

 

Submission to Computational Biology and Chemistry:

(https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computational-biology-and-chemistry)

Papers for this journal will be submitted to and reviewed through easychair. There are No publication charges for CBAC.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for CBAC will be invited to register for InCoB2018 and present their work there. Even though CBAC will not review the papers again but the technical check such as plagiarism tests may be carried out and a paper may not be finally published in CBAC for this reason. Also, the papers in CBAC will be published as an InCoB2018-specific section in a regular issue instead of having a full issue dedicated to the conference.

To submit a paper to CBAC, please prepare your manuscript in a PDF format and upload it to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18. Please also include a cover letter mentioning that the paper is to be considered for CBAC.

Bioinformatics:

Papers for this journal will be also be first submitted to easychair.

Authors of the papers accepted provisionally for Bioinformatics will be invited to register for InCoB2018 and present their work there. However, please be informed that some of the papers recommended for Bioinformatics may be later rejected by the journal in the second stage of the review, even if they are given an opportunity to present at InCoB.

To submit a paper to Bioinformatics, please prepare your manuscript in a PDF format and upload it to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18. Please also include a cover letter mentioning that the paper is to be considered for Bioinformatics.

  

 Quick checklist for journal wise submission of InCoB2018 papers 

 

	BMC journals (BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology, BMC Genomics BMC Medical Genomics)	Bioinformatics	Gigascience	PeerJ	JBCB	CBAC
Submission start date	February 19, 2018	February 19, 2018	February 19, 2018	February 19, 2018	February 19, 2018	February 19, 2018
Initial Submission URL	https://ocs.springer.com/misc/home/InCoB2018	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18	www.biorxiv.org	www.biorxiv.org	www.biorxiv.org	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=incob18
Estimated number of articles	50	4	4	4	4	10
Publication charges	As per journal policy	As per journal policy	As per journal policy	As per journal policy	NIL	NIL
Initial submission format	BMC template	Free format	Free format	Free format	Free format	CBAC format
Review process	Single stage peer review by at least two reviewers.	Stage 1: Peer review by at least two reviewers, edited by InCoB PC.  Stage 2: Editorial review by the journal	Stage 1: Open peer review by at least two reviewers via preprint.space  Stage 2: Editorial review by the journal	Stage 1: Peer review by at least two reviewers, edited by InCoB PC. Stage 2: Editorial review by the journal	Stage 1: Peer review by at least two reviewers, edited by InCoB PC. Stage 2: Editorial review by the journal	Single stage peer review by at least two reviewers.
Possible submission outcome	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject	Accept as paper/ Accept as poster/ Reject
Submission deadline	April 25, 2018 (extended)	April 25, 2018 (extended)	April 25, 2018 (extended)	April 25, 2018 (extended)	April 15, 2018 (extended)	April 15, 2018 (extended)
Final decision due	July 20, 2018	July 20, 2018	July 20, 2018	July 20, 2018	July 20, 2018	July 20, 2018