2021-09-11: ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Information (BCB) Trip Report
The ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Information (BCB) was held virtually, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, from August 1st through August 4th, 2021. There were 301 registered attendees this year. For those that were not lucky enough to attend the conference, the conference proceedings are available online. This was my first time attending an ACM BCB conference. It is the flagship conference of the ACM Special Intertest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio) . Although I did not get to travel to Chicago where the conference was originally planned to be held, the CONFlux Virtual Platform made it easy to attend the scheduled sessions and interact with other attendees. There were three general chairs for this year's conference: Dr. Jiajie Zhang of UTHealth School of Biomedical Informatics, Dr. Hongmei Jiang of Northwestern Universit...