The BioVis Interest Group (http://www.biovis.net) is organizing a meeting at ISMB in 2016. This meeting brings together researchers from the visualization, bioinformatics, and biology communities with the purpose of educating, inspiring, and engaging visualization researchers in problems in biological data visualization, as well as bioinformatics and biology researchers in state-of-the-art visualization research. BioVis@ISMB 2016 is co-located with ISMB 2016 <http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016> and will be taking place on July 8in Orlando, Florida at the Disney World Resort Swan and Dolphin hotel <http://www.iscb.org/ismb2016-accommodation>. The main ISMB 2016 conference will run from July 8 through July 12. There are three possible ways to participate in BioVis@ISMB: [1] New Research: Participants are invited to submit an abstract describing high-quality original research. Abstracts will be reviewed by the program committee and all accepted abstracts will be included in the poster session. The authors of selected abstracts will be asked to give a brief oral presentation during the SIG meeting. [2] Highlights: Participants may submit an abstract describing work published in the previous year as well as additional work undertaken since publication. The program committee will review these abstracts. Additionally, the BioVis SIG program committee may also invite authors of outstanding publications from other venues. The authors of selected abstracts will give an oral presentation during the SIG meeting. [3] Posters: We seek work in progress and preliminary results; previously published work from other venues; visualization challenges. Key Dates for BioVis@ISMB: - May 3, 2016 - Submission deadline for the Highlights Track and New Research Track - May 17, 2016 - Submission deadline for Poster Track - May 20, 2016 - Notifications for Highlights, New Research, and Posters For more info on BioVis@ISMB see: http://biovis.net/2016/ismb/ BioVis is also holding a meeting at IEEE VisWeek in 2016. For more info on BioVis@VIS see:http://biovis.net/2016/ieeevis/ General chairs - G. Elisabeta Marai, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Jan Aerts, KU Leuven, Belgium Paper chairs - Daniel Weiskopf, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Marc Streit, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Poster chairs - Michel Westenberg, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands - William Ray, The Ohio State University, USA Publication chairs - Alexander Lex, University of Utah, USA - Florin Chelaru, MIT, USA Primer & challenges chair - Eamonn Maguire, CERN, Switzerland Highlights chair - Julian Heinrich, CSIRO, Australia Data contest chairs - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA - Cagatay Turkay, City University, London, UK Design contest chairs - Ryo Sakai, KU Leuven, Belgium - Francis Rowland, EBI, UK Industry and fundraising chair - Hector Corrado Bravo, University of Maryland, USA Website chairs - Tuan Dang, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA - Anamaria Crisan, University of British Columbia, Canada Publicity chairs - Jillian Aurisano, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Steering Committee - Kay Nieselt, University of Tuebingen, Germany - Nils Gehlenborg, Harvard Medical School, USA - Jessie Kennedy, Edinburgh Napier University, UK - Jos Roerdink, University of Groningen, The Netherlands - Raghu Machiraju, The Ohio State University, USA (Chair) ================================================ Prof Jan Aerts * Visual Data Analysis Lab (vda-lab.be) * Data Visualization Lab (datavislab.org) * Bioinformatics - ESAT/STADIUS, Faculty of Engineering ( www.kuleuven.be/bioinformatics) * iMinds Medical IT Department (www.iminds.be) KU Leuven - University of Leuven Kasteelpark Arenberg 10 bus 2446 3001 Leuven-Heverlee ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6416-2717 Tel: +32 16 321053 Fax: +32 16 321970 VAT BE 0419 052173