ACM BCB

The paper submission deadline for ACM-BCB 2022 has been extended from May 15, 2022 to May 22, 2022.

Select live session recordings will be available on the CEC virtual platform to view on-demand at your convenience. This content will be available until September 4, 2021.

Delighted to attend ACM BCB 2021 @acm_bcb and present our poster “Explaining Large-for-Gestational-Age Births: A Random Forest Classifier with a Novel Local Interpretation Method”

The Recognitions and Awards Ceremony (Chairs: Hongmei Jiang, Xiuzhen Huang, Jiajie Zhang) begins at 4:30PM CDT, following by Closing Remarks (Chairs: May Wang, Tamer Kahveci) at 5:00PM CDT.

Going to @acm_bcb? Check out the HVFQI app - a collaboration between @arvind_ski and @KulkarniLabSFSU to create an online clinical database system designed to gather anonymous responses on daily living activities ski.org/project/higher…

Dr. May Wang is talking about diversity challenges in a special session at @acm_bcb now.

Dr. Amy Franklin from @UTHealthHouston Biomedical Informatics School: "we are our own pipeline in the future", when addressing #DEI effort at @acm_bcb

BCB Session 6 begins at 2:30PM and ends at 4:15PM CDT. Session 6A - Cancer (Chair: Oznur Tastan) Session 6B - Ontologies & Databases (Chair: Fereydoun Hormozdiari)

The Featured Session on Diversity and Inclusion: Challenges and Opportunities (Chairs: Xiuzhen Huang, May Wang) begins at 12:30PM and ends at 2:00PM CDT.

WABI Session 6A: Metagenomics (Chair: Riccardo Vicedomini) begins at 12:00PM and ends at 1:15PM CDT.

Today's plenary session, "Algorithms for Deciphering Disease Networks", presented by Mona Singh, Professor of Computer Science, begins at 10:55AM and ends at 12:00PM CDT.

BCB Session 5 begins at 8:45AM and ends at 10:30AM CDT. Session 5A - COVID-19 (Chair: Mohd Anwar) Session 5B - Clinical Trials & Outcome Prediction (Chair: Kaiman Zeng)

WABI Session 5 begins at 7:40AM and ends at 10:00AM CDT. 7:40AM - 8:40AM Sessions 5A RNA - Transcriptomics (Chair: Tomas Vinar) 8:40AM - 9:00AM Break 9:00AM - 10:00AM Sessions 5B Statistical Inference / System Biology (Chair: Mohammed El-Kebir)

@acm_bcb Great work by Yuan Luo & team on comparing different mechanisms for the allocation ventilators during #COVID19; considering outcomes and equity by age, race, ethnicity. @acm_bcb

Very interesting work by Fei Wang & Team on features important in clinical subphenotyping of #COVID19 patients, e.g., progression in SOFA score vs. outcomes. @acm_bcb

BCB Session 4 begins at 2:30PM and ends at 4:20PM CDT. Session 4A - Medical Imaging (Chair: Sanjay Purushotham) Session 4B- Graphs and Networks (Chair: Byung-Jun Yoon)

The Featured Session on Bioinformatics, Data Science, AI and COVID (Chairs: Hongmei Jiang and May Wang) begins at 1:00PM and ends at 2:20PM CDT.

WABI Session 4A (Chair: Elodie Laine) "RNA Structure" begins at 12:30PM and ends at 1:30PM CDT.

After the break (12:00PM - 1:00PM CDT), the Featured Session on Bioinformatics, Data Science, AI and COVID (Chairs: Hongmei Jiang and May Wang) begins at 1:00PM and ends at 2:20PM CDT.