The 17th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2026) is the flagship conference of the ACM SIGBio. It will move for the first time to Europe and will be held in Calabria, Italy, from June 30 to July 3, 2026. The conference aims to promote big data, AI, and algorithms for health and biomedicine, including cutting-edge advances in computational biology, bioinformatics, and health informatics, at the intersection of computer science, biology, health, and medicine. The conference will be hosted at the University of Calabria Congress Center.

This year, for the first time, ACM BCB submitted papers will go through a two-phase review process, aiming to publish accepted papers in a new ACM journal format. Through the two-phase review process, authors can refine their work based on constructive critiques from reviewers. The updated paper version can thus be considered in a second-phase review process. Accepted papers will then be included in a new journal published by ACM.

For further information about ACM-BCB 2026 and important dates, please visit the conference website: https://acm-bcb.org