The International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA) provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. Submissions presenting original research are solicited in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. 

Key Dates:
Submission Deadline: March 25, 2025
Notification: May 1, 2025
Final Version Due: May 12, 2025
Conference date and venue: Aug 3-5, 2025, University of Helsinki, Finland

Conference website: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/isbra2025

Paper Submission: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/isbra2025/call-papers

The previous conference proceeding on Springer: https://link.springer.com/conference/isbra

Track 1: Submit up to 12 pages in LNCS format for (i) publication of the extended abstract in the Springer LNBI Proceedings and (ii) invitation to submit a 30%-50%-extended version to ISBRA2025 special issues. The pending approval journals are:

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• IEEE Transactions on Molecular, Biological, and Multi-Scale Communications
• Journal of Computer Science and Technology
• Tsinghua Science and Technology
• Chinese Journal of Electronics
• Big Data Mining and Analytics
• IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

Track 2: Submit up to 12 pages in LNCS format for (i) a presentation at the conference and (ii) an invitation to submit a full-length paper to ISBRA2025 special issues. The pending approval journals are:

• Computational Biology
• Methods
• Interdisciplinary Sciences-Computational Life Sciences
• Health information science and systems
• Quantitative Biology
• BMC Bioinformatics
• BMC Genomics