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

Paper Submission

Research Paper Submission Tracks

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

Call for Papers Description

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.