APBC2021

The 19th Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference

February 3rd-5th, 2021 | National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan

Call for papers

APBC2021 invites high quality original full papers on any topic related to bioinformatics and computational biology. The submitted papers must have not been published or under the consideration for publication in any other journal or conference with formal proceedings. All accepted papers will have to be presented by one of the authors at the conference.

Papers are solicited on, but not limited to, the following topics:

  • Sequencing and genotyping technology and applications
  • Gene regulation, transcriptomics and epigenomics
  • Comparative and evolutionary genomics
  • Single cell genomics and proteomics
  • Epigenetics and population genetics
  • RNA, protein, and proteome analyses
  • Network biology and systems biology
  • Bioimaging
  • Complex disease and cancer genetics
  • Metagenomics
  • Health informatics (EMR data mining)

Instruction for authors

The author should follow general format provided by the Journal editorial office to format the article for online submission. However, APBC2021 PC chairs may assign your submission to a different Journal and ask you to reformat your paper.

You can prepare your APBC2021 submission using the following templates:

Submission site

  • TCBB/CBC : Submission siteSubmission for APBC2021 is closed.
    Please login to EasyChair APBC2021 to upload the paper. (if you don't have an account, please register EasyChair first)

  • BMC Bioinformatics/Genomics/Medical Genomics : Submission siteSubmission for APBC2021 is closed.
    Please login to BMC Supplements to upload the paper (if you don't have an account, please register BMC Supplements first)

Accepted paper

  • All accepted papers will have to be presented by one of the authors at the conference.
  • Accepted papers will be invited to be published in BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Genomics, IEEE/ACM TCBB and Computational Biology and Chemistry following each journal's publication policy
  • Submitting two or more papers to the conference is permitted. However, each author can only present one paper in the conference.

Key dates

Submission deadline:
August 31th 2020 October 15th, 2020
Author notification:
October 31th, 2020 November 30th, 2020
Final version due:
November 30th, 2020 December 31th, 2020
Presentation video
submission deadline:
January 15th, 2021