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 the Springer Website. 

Submission Guidelines

Please submit extended abstracts (up to 12 pages in the LNCS/CCIS one-column page format) via the online submission system. 

Submission implies the 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 ISBRA2025 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) 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

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.

Committees

Steering Committee:

• Dan Gusfield (UC Davis, USA)
• Ion Mandoiu (UConn, USA)
• Yi Pan (SUAT, China), Chair
• Marie-France Sagot (INRIA, France)
• Zhirong Sun (Tsinghua, China)
• Ying Xu (UGA, USA)
• Aidong Zhang (UVA, USA)
• Zhipeng Cai (GSU, USA)

General Co-Chairs:

• Sampsa Hautaniemi (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Matti Nykter (Tampere University, Finland)
• Alexander Zelikovsky (Georgia State University, USA)
• Jianxin Wang (Central South University, China)

Program Co-Chairs:

• Jing Tang (University of Helsinki, Finland)
• Xin Lai (Tampere University, Finland)
• Zhipeng Cai (Georgia State University, USA)
• Wei Peng (Kunming University of Science and Technology, China)
• Yanjie Wei (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China)

Publicity Co-Chairs:

• Julio Vera (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany)
• Pavel Skums (University of Connecticut, USA)
• Yulian Ding (Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, China)

Venue

The conference will be held at the University of Helsinki, Finland on August 3-5, 2025

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to isbra2025@helsinki.fi 

Sponsors

• University of Helsinki, Finland
• Tampere University, Finland
• Georgia State University, USA
• Academy of Finland, Finland