Papers - XMEETING 2026
For the second time at X-Meeting, accepted full papers will be published by Springer in Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI), a subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).
The X-Meeting 2026 Program Committee invites submissions of original research presenting novel theoretical results, techniques, and applications in all areas of Bioinformatics, including, but not limited to, the following:
- AI and Machine Learning in Medicine and Healthcare
- Computational Drug Discovery
- Sequence Analysis
- Single-cell sequencing
- Omics Data Integration and Analysis
- Genomic Variation and Disease
- Haplotypes and Population Genomics
- Phylogenetics
- Protein and RNA Analysis, Structure, and Dynamics
- Metagenomics and Algorithms for Microbiomes
- Cancer Genomics
- Bioinformatics in Agro Sciences
- Pharmacogenomics
- Systems Biology
- Biological Networks and Integrative Analysis
- Bioimage Informatics
- Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Text Mining in Biology
- Large language model (LLM) for Bioinformatics
- Data Integration, Harmonization, and Ontology
- Computational Phenotyping
- Automated Diagnosis and Prediction
- Data Security and Privacy
- Knowledge Representation Applications
- Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics
- Biomedical and Health Data Visualization
- Public Health and Population Health Informatics
- Infectious Disease Networks and Computational Epidemiology
- Social Network Analysis for Health Applications
- Heuristic Search Methods in Bioinformatics
- High Performance Computing for Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics in Plant Science
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Call for Papers
Important Dates
Paper submission due: TBD
Notifications sent to authors: TBD
Camera-ready papers due: TBD
Paper Preparation
Manuscripts must be written in English and formatted according to the Springer LNCS templates.
- Full papers: manuscripts with 12-16 pages.
- Short papers: manuscripts with 6-11 pages.
Authors are required to consult Springer's "Instructions for Authors of Proceedings" and utilize either the LaTeX or Word templates provided on the authors' page: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines for manuscript preparation.
The use of artificial intelligence AI-generated text within a manuscript must be disclosed in the acknowledgments section of any submitted paper. Furthermore, all manuscript sections incorporating AI-generated text must include a citation specifying the AI system employed for text generation.
Submissions must be original and not currently under review elsewhere.
Review Process
All submissions will be screened for plagiarism. The Program Committee reserves the right to reject any submission containing suspected instances of plagiarism without further review.
Submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process. Following review, papers may be accepted, rejected, or conditionally accepted pending revisions (revise and resubmit). Further details are provided below.
X-Meeting 2026 employs a double-blind review process; reviewers will not be informed of the authors' identities, and vice versa. Authors are, therefore, required to ensure anonymity in their submitted PDF File. Specifically:
- Author names should not be included within the submitted PDF document.
- Prior work should be referenced in the third person whenever possible.
- While reviewers may potentially deduce author identities through external resources, such as publicly available technical reports, the presence of such information online does not violate the double-blind submission policy.
- Please note that anonymization is mandatory. Submissions that explicitly or implicitly reveal author identities may be rejected.
Authors will not be allowed to appeal if their papers are rejected.
Camera-Ready Publication
All accepted papers are contingent upon registration by at least one author at X-Meeting 2026 (see the Registration section for details).
X-Meeting 2026 policy prohibits the addition of new authors at the camera-ready stage. Compliance with this policy is required for publication.
One X-Meeting 2026 registration covers the publication of up to two papers (full or short) submitted under this call.
Program Chairs
Marcio Dorn (UFRGS)
Fabricio M. Lopes (UTFPR)
Steering Committee
Marcelo Brandão (UNICAMP)
Fabricio Martins Lopes (UTFPR)
Nicole Scherer (INCA)
Ana Carolina Guimarães (Fiocruz)
Helder Takashi Imoto Nakaya (USP)
Sávio Torres de Farias (UFPB)
Program Committee
Alessandro M. Varani (UNESP)
Alexandre Rossi Paschoal (UTFPR)
Alexandre Francisco (INESC-ID)
Ana C. Guimarães (Fiocruz)
Ana C. Lima Camargo (UNICAMP)
André Yoshiaki Kashiwabara (UFS)
Artur T. L. Queiroz (Fiocruz)
Carolina Saibro-Girardi (UFCSPA)
Conrado Pedebos (UFCSPA)
Cristiane B. D. Matielo (UFRGS)
Daniela Megrian (Institut Pasteur)
David C. Martins-Jr (UFABC)
Deborah Antunes (Fiocruz)
Diogo Antonio Tschoeke (UFRJ)
Dora Henriques (IPB-CIMO)
Douglas S. Domingues (ESALQ-USP)
Éderson S. M. Pinto (UFRGS)
Elisangela A. S. Lizzi (UTFPR)
Fabricio Silva (Fiocruz)
Gabriela M. Breyer (UFRGS)
Glaucia M. Bressan (UTFPR)
Guilherme T. Valente (HCFMB)
Heitor S. Lopes (UTFPR)
João Meidanis (UNICAMP)
Jorge H. Fernandez (UENF)
Jose A. Molina Mora (UCR)
Juliano O. Silveira (UFCSPA)
Liliane S. Oliveira (UFS)
Lucas M. Carvalho (USF)
Lucianna S. Santos (Institut Pasteur)
Manuel Villalobos-Cid (USACH)
Marcelo S. Reis (UNICAMP)
Mauro A. A. Castro (UFPR)
Paulo Augusto Netz (UFRGS)
Pedro H. Bugatti (UFSCar)
Priscila T. M. Saito (UFSCar)
Priscila Grynberg (Embrapa)
Renato Tinos (USP/RP)
Robson Francisco Carvalho (UNESP)
Rocio L. B. R. Maidana (Fiocruz)
Romain Guyot (IRD)
Tetsu Sakamoto (UFRN)
Ulisses Nunes da Rocha (UFZ)
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