About us

The inaugural Great Plains Bioinformatics Conference is an interdisciplinary forum organized by the University of Nebraska to foster long-term collaborative relationships and networking within the domain of computational approaches to biology. The conference features keynote speakers, tutorials, workshops, oral presentations, and poster sessions.

Important Dates

Wed, May 6, 2026
Tutorials Submission Deadline
Mon, May 18, 2026
Proceedings Submission Deadline
Wed, Jul 22, 2026
Abstracts Submission Deadline
Mon, Aug 10, 2026
Late-Breaking Posters Submission Deadline

Call For Paper

Bioinformatics
Synthetic biology
Computational Biology
Visualization
Systems Modeling
Network biology
Computational Biology Algorithms
Application of ML and LLMs in Biosciences
Bioinformatics Education
Cheminformatics and Drug Design
Clinical & Health Informatics
Databases, Ontologies & Biocuration
Disease Models & Molecular Medicine
Epidemiology & Biodiversity
Evolutionary, Comparative Genomics & Phylogenetics
Gene Regulation & Transcriptomics
Genome Informatics
Imaging Data Analysis
Macromolecular Structure & Function
Metagenomics
Microbiome Informatics
Proteomics & Metabolomics
Sequence Analysis
Structural Bioinformatics
Text Mining & Natural Language Processing

Submissions are invited for full papers, oral presentation abstracts, posters, and tutorials at the 1st Great Plains Bioinformatics Conference. Scientists and professionals working in bioinformatics and computational biology are encouraged to submit high quality original research papers. Accepted full papers will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of Bioinformatics Advances.

Committee

Conference Program Chairs

Hesham Ali

PhD

University of Nebraska Omaha

Dario Ghersi

M.D., PhD

University of Nebraska Omaha

Babu Guda

PhD

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Proceedings Chairs

Kate Cooper

PhD

University of Nebraska Omaha

Jordan Rowley

PhD

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Poster Chairs

Sandipan Brahma

PhD

University of Nebraska Medical Center

Shibiao Wan

PhD

University of Nebraska Medical Center