The 21st International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Application (ISBRA 2025) will be held in Helsinki, Finland, August 3 - 5, 2025

Welcome

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. The previous ISBRA proceedings on SpringerLink is available at Springer Website. Topics of interest include but are not limited to

Biomarker discovery	High-performance bio-computing
Biomedical databases and data integration	Metagenomics
Biomedical text mining and ontologies	Molecular evolution
Biomolecular imaging	Molecular modeling and simulation
Comparative genomics	Next-generation sequencing data analysis
Computational genetic epidemiology	Pattern discovery and classification
Computational proteomics	Population genetics
Data mining and visualization	Software tools and applications
Gene expression analysis	Structural biology
Genome analysis	AI and machine learning methods in Bioinformatics and Medical Information
Systems biology	Big Data Analytics in Biology and Medicine

PAPER SUBMISSION

Please submit extended abstracts (up to 12 pages in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format) via the online submission system. Submission implies willingness of at least one author to register and present at the symposium. The authors should choose one of the following tracks:

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 ISBRA’24 special issues. The pending approval journals are:

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
• 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 (Pending Approval)

Track 2: Submit up to 12 pages in LNCS format for (i) presentation at the conference and (ii) invitation to submit a full-length paper to ISBRA’24 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

Authors should consult Springer's Instructions for Authors of Proceedings and use either the LaTeX or the Word templates provided on the authors' page, for the preparation of their papers.

Camera Ready Paper

Please prepare your paper according to templates (up to 12 pages in LNCS format), you can download the templates from “Information for Authors of Computers Science Proceedings” page. You have to submit a signed Consent-to-Publish form. The Consent-to-Publish form can be downloaded from here.