List of bioinformatics conferences
Every fiscal year, we have to predict where we are going to travel over the whole next year. However, conferences mainly post on their own website, making no real central place where you can search for conferences. I had to project my own travel for this coming year, as do many of my colleagues in government. Therefore, I made it my mission over the last couple of days to figure out a list of conferences.
Conferences
Disclaimer these data are not guaranteed to be correct and are just the best estimate we had at the time. Please verify any conference that looks interesting to you and let me know if something needs updating.
| name | topic | next instance | regularity |
|---|---|---|---|
| Applied Bioinformatics & Public Health Microbiology (ABPHM) | Advances in microbial and viral genomics, bioinformatics, data science, and sequencing technology in public health settings | May 3-5, 2023 | Bennial |
| Association of Biomolecular Resources Facilities (ABRF) Annual Meeting | Cutting-edge science and its execution in a shared resource/core facility setting | May 7-10, 2023 | Annual |
| ACMG Annual Clinical Genetics Meeting | Clinical genetics and genomics | March 12-16, 2024 | Annual |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories (AGBT) Agricultural Meeting | Integration of genomics and agriculture | April 15-17, 2024 | Annual |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories (AGBT) General | Public health laboratory science and practice | Feb 5-8, 2024 | Annual |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories (AGBT) Precision Health | Innovative technologies and their impact on clinical diagnostics and therapeutic development, as well as the evolving view of genotype-phenotype interpretation from rare variants to polygenic risk scores | TBA | Annual |
| Annual Biosafety and Biosecurity Conference | Biosafety and biosecurity practices in research and development | Oct 13-18, 2023 | Annual |
| Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) | Algorithmic computational biology conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. The conference features keynote talks by preeminent scientists in life sciences, presentations of ground breaking research in computational biology, selected over the course of a highly-rigorous peer-review process, and poster sessions on the latest research progress. | May 22-25, 2022 | Annual |
| Antimicrobial Resistance - Wellcome | Genomes, big data, and emerging technologies in antimicrobial resistance research. The conference will cover topics such as antimicrobial resistance surveillance, pathogen genomics, host-pathogen interactions, and more. | Mar 13-15, 2024 | Annual |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) Annual Meeting | Public health laboratory science and practice | May 6-9, 2024 | Annual |
| Association of Public Health Laboratories Infectious Disease Conference (APHL ID Con) | Detection and characterization of infectious diseases of public health concern | Sep 9-12, 2023 | Annual |
| American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) Annual Conference | Human genetics and genomics research | Nov 1-5, 2023 | Annual |
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Biothreats | Biodefense, biosecurity and biological threats | TBA, 2024 | Biennial |
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Clinical Virology Symposium | Diagnostic virology, vaccine development and molecular diagnostics research | Sep 9-12, 2023 | Annual |
| American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Microbe | Advances in microbial sciences and their applications in various fields such as medicine, agriculture, and biotechnology. | Jun 13-17, 2024 | Annual |
| American Society for Microbiology Conference on Rapid Applied Microbial Next-Generation Sequencing and Bioinformatic Pipelines (ASM NGS) | Rapid applied microbial next-generation sequencing and bioinformatic pipelines in public health bioinformatics. | Oct-24 | Biennial |
| American Society for Virology (ASV) Annual Meeting | Virology research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in virology. | TBA | Annual |
| Bioinformatics: From Algorithms to Applications (BIATA) | Bioinformatics algorithms and their practical applications in public health settings | TBA | Annual |
| Bioinformatics Open Source Conference (BOSC) | Open source bioinformatics software and open science | Jul 24-25, 2023 | Annual |
| BioITWorld | Application of bioinformatics, IT and computer science in biomedical research and drug discovery | April 15-17, 2024 | Annual |
| BioVis | Biological data visualization, bioinformatics and biology research in visualization research. | TBA | Annual |
| CHRO | Human resources and organizational development in healthcare research organizations. | TBA, 2024 | |
| Conference on Coronavirus Disease (ECCVID) | COVID-19 pandemic diagnostics, therapeutics and infection prevention and control. | TBA | Annual |
| Epidemic Intelligence Service (EIS) Conference | Epidemiology research and education. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in epidemiology. | April 22-25, 2024 | Biennial/Triennial |
| Global Alliance for Genomics and Health (GA4GH) Plenary Meeting | Genomics research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in genomics. | TBA | Biennial/Triennial |
| Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) | Open source bioinformatics software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data; results and software; ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them; practical techniques for solving bioinformatics problems; software development practices; standards and ontologies; approaches that promote open science and sharing of data; ways to grow open source communities while promoting diversity within them. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in genomics. | TBA | Annual |
| Genome Informatics - Wellcome | Genomics research and education with a focus on informatics tools development for genomics research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Genomics of Energy & Environment Meeting | Genomics research with a focus on energy production from renewable sources. | Sept 30-Oct 4, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| Great Lakes Bioinformatics Conference (GLBIO) | Bioinformatics research with a focus on computational biology conferences bridging the areas of computational, mathematical, statistical and biological sciences. | May 13-16, 2024 | Annual |
| International Association for Food Protection (IAFP) Annual Meeting | Food safety research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in food safety. | Jul 14-17, 2024 | Annual |
| International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases (ICEID) | Emerging infectious diseases research and education. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in emerging infectious diseases. | TBA | Biennial/Triennial |
| IEEE Vis | Advances in theory, methods, and applications of visualization and visual analytics research. The conference convenes an international community of researchers and practitioners from universities, government, and industry to exchange recent findings on the design and use of visualization tools. The program includes plenary and panel sessions with invited speakers, oral abstract and poster presentations, and multiple scientific and public health exhibitors—all focusing on emerging and re-emerging infections. | Oct 22-27, 2023 | Annual/Biennial |
| Institute for Food Safety and Health (IFSH) Annual Meeting | Food safety research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in food safety. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Institute of Food Technologists (IFT) Annual Meeting & Food Expo | Food science research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in food science. | Jul 14-17, 2024. | Annual |
| InFORM | Public health laboratory science and practice in environmental health. | Jan 22-24, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| InFORM Regional Meetings | Public health laboratory science and practice in environmental health. | TBA as per the specific meeting. | Annual/Biennial |
| Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB) | Bioinformatics and computational biology research | July 12-16, 2024 | Annual |
| International Biocuration Conference | Biological database curation and development research | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Cloud Computing | Cloud computing research and practice | Jul 2-8, 2023 | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Cloud Engineering | Cloud engineering research and practice | Sept 24-27, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Data and Text Mining in Biomedical Informatics (DTMBIO) | Biomedical and health informatics research with a focus on data and text mining. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in biomedical informatics. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) | Intelligent biology and medicine research with a focus on machine learning, data mining, artificial intelligence, and their applications in biomedical research. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in intelligent biology and medicine research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Joint Cloud Computing | Cloud computing research and practice with a focus on joint cloud computing technologies such as cloud federation, cloud interoperability, cloud composition, cloud brokering, etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in joint cloud computing technologies. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC) | Service-oriented computing research with a focus on service-oriented architectures (SOA), service-oriented systems engineering (SOSE), service composition and coordination (SCC), service discovery (SD), service quality (SQ), service management (SM), service applications (SA), etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in service-oriented computing. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC2022) | Cloud computing research and practice | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Meeting on Microbial Epidemiological Markers (IMMEM XIII) | Microbial epidemiological markers research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in microbial epidemiological markers research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| International Meeting on Visualizing Biological Data | Biological data visualization research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in biological data visualization research. | Mar 22-24, 2023 | Annual/Biennial |
| International Society for Microbial Ecology (ISME) Symposium | Microbial ecology research and education with a focus on microbial ecology of different environments such as soil, water, air, plant, animal, human, etc. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The symposium also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in microbial ecology research. | Aug 18-23, 2024 | Biennial |
| International Symposium on Problems of Listeria and Listeriosis (ISOPOL) | Listeria and listeriosis research and education with a focus on new discoveries and opportunities to understand and control Listeria in food and health settings. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The symposium also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in Listeria research. | Sep 10-13, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| Keystone Symposia | Biomedical science research and education with a focus on molecular biology topics such as cancer biology; immunology; neuroscience; cardiovascular diseases; infectious diseases; etc. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. | announced on site | weekly/monthly |
| Lake Arrowhead Microbial Genomics | The Lake Arrowhead 2024 meeting will have a major focus on microbial communities, the human microbiome, pathogens, and genome evolution. | Sept 15-19, 2024 | Biennial |
| Louisiana Biomedical Research Network (LBRN) Conference on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics | Computational biology and bioinformatics research with a focus on biomedical applications such as drug discovery; personalized medicine; etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Microbiome Interactions in Health and Disease - Wellcome Connecting Science | A broad meeting audience includes clinicians and bionformaticians working in microbiology, host-microbiota interactions, gastroenterology, microbial ecology, neuroscience, and public health. Posters and selected talks, excellent networking | 14–16 February 2024 | Biennial |
| National Association of County and City Health Officials (NACCHO) Annual Conference | Public health research and education. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in public health research. | Mar 23-26, 2024 | Annual |
| Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing | Biocomputing research and education with a focus on computational biology topics such as genomics; proteomics; structural biology; etc. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The symposium also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in biocomputing research. | Jan 3-7, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| The local Pangenome | Oct 25-28, 2023 | ||
| Public Health Alliance for Genomic Epidemiology (PHA4GE) Conference | Genomic epidemiology research and education with a focus on open science; open source bioinformatics software development; data sharing; etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in genomic epidemiology research. | Oct 30-Nov 1, 2023 | Annual/Biennial |
| Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG) | Plant and animal genomics research and education with a focus on computational biology topics such as genome sequencing; genome annotation; comparative genomics; etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in plant and animal genomics research. | Jan 12-17 , 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| Regulatory and Systems Genomics with DREAM Challenges (RSGDREAM) Conference | Regulatory genomics and systems biology research with a focus on DREAM challenges; network visualization; regulatory motifs; epigenomics; non-coding RNAs; etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, tutorials, DREAM challenges results presentations, etc. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in regulatory genomics and systems biology research. | Nov 28 - Dec 1, 2023 | Annual/Biennial |
| Ribonucleic acid (RNA) Conference | RNA research and education with a focus on RNA structure; RNA function; RNA processing; RNA modification; RNA localization; RNA-protein interactions; etc. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, tutorials etc. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in RNA research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Rocky Mountain Bioinformatics Conference (ROCKY) | Bioinformatics research with a focus on computational biology topics such as genomics; proteomics; structural biology; etc. The conference features keynote speakers from academia and industry; symposia; workshops; poster sessions etc. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in bioinformatics research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) | Diversity in STEM research and education. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in STEM. | Oct 26-28, 2023 | Annual |
| Sequencing to Function: Analysis and Applications for the Future (SFAF) | Genome finishing research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in genome finishing research. | TBA | Annual |
| Summer Institute in Statistical Genetics (SISG) | The goal of SISG is to strengthen the statistical and genetic proficiency and career preparation of scholars from all backgrounds, especially those from groups historically underrepresented in STEM such as racial and ethnic minority groups, low income, first generation college students, veterans, individuals with disabilities, and LGBTQ groups. | May 29th - June 14, 2024 | Annual |
| Symposium on Large Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) | Large data analysis and visualization research and education. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The symposium also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in large data analysis and visualization research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
| Viral EcoGenomics & Applications | Viral EcoGenomics research and education. The symposium features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The symposium also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in viral ecogenomics research. | TBA | Annual |
| Virus Evolution & Molecular Epidemiology (VEME) | Virus evolution and molecular epidemiology research and education. The meeting features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The meeting also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in virus evolution and molecular epidemiology research. | Aug 4-9, 2024 | Annual/Biennial |
| Virus Genomics and Evolution | Virus genomics and evolution research and education. The conference features keynote speakers, symposia, workshops, poster sessions, and social events. It provides a platform for students, postdoctoral fellows, and established scientists to present their research findings. The conference also offers opportunities to network with peers and learn about the latest advances in virus genomics and evolution research. | TBA | Annual/Biennial |
Methods
I started with a list of conferences that I developed internally with my colleagues, and then I posted it to a larger group of bioinformaticians. It turns out that Ryan Connor already had a large list that he created a couple years ago. It was outdated but then again, it had URLs to conference websites and the names of the conferences.
Next, Dave O’Connor gave me tips and very helpful discussions on how to prompt Bing GPT to fill in the rest of the table values. This gave me draft values for the next date of the conference, URLs, and regularity of the conference. In many cases, these values were actually incorrect! And so I tried to quickly go through one by one to verify the URLs and find the next dates of the conference and update those.
Epilogue
This process is far from perfect and so please contact me if you would like to help update this spreadsheet. If you are reading this in time for 2024, please contact me to remind me to continue this project!
