RECOMB-P&E 2025 Call for Papers
The 2nd RECOMB Satellite Conference on Biomedical Privacy and Equity (RECOMB-P&E 2025) will be held on April 25th, 2025 in Seoul, South Korea just before the main RECOMB conference. The conference brings together leading researchers in computational biology and medicine to explore algorithmic solutions addressing critical ethical challenges in biomedical research related to data privacy and equity.
Topics
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Privacy Risk Analysis: Examining privacy risks (e.g., re-identification) associated with high-throughput molecular or clinical data.
- Balancing Privacy and Utility: Creating frameworks that balance the need to safeguard privacy with the goal of enabling scientific progress.
- Secure Computation: Developing algorithms for analyzing sensitive biomedical data while preserving privacy, using cryptographic, statistical, or other related techniques.
- Genomic Data Privacy: Investigating the privacy implications of advancements in DNA sequencing and the growing availability of genomic information.
- Private Data Release: Designing strategies for releasing private datasets while minimizing risks to individuals.
- Bias Identification: Analyzing various forms of inequities present in genomic and health-related data and models.
- Algorithmic Fairness: Developing methods to reduce bias and promote fairness and equity in biological AI.
Key Dates
Proceedings and Overlay Tracks:
- Submission deadline: February 5th, 2025 23:59 AoE
- Author notification: February 25th, 2025
Highlights / Short Talks / Posters:
- Abstract submission deadline: February 28th, 2025 23:59 AoE
- Author notification: March 7th, 2025
Tracks
We solicit contributions in three categories (“Tracks”) as follows.
Proceedings Track
Manuscripts in this track will be considered for publication in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology. At the time of submission, and for the entire review period, the work should not be under review by any other conference or scientific journal. In some rare cases, manuscripts may be deemed to not be suitable for the journal after review but still be invited for an oral presentation at the conference. Authors will be required to upload their manuscript to a public preprint server (bioRxiv, arXiv, etc.) prior to the conference.
To indicate that your submission should be considered for the proceedings track, please include “[Proceedings]” at the end of the paper title.
Overlay Track
Manuscripts submitted to this track will be reviewed by the program committee, and selected submissions will be invited for oral presentations. At the time of submission, the manuscript should be publicly available on a preprint server (e.g., bioRxiv, arXiv). While there are no specific formatting requirements, the manuscript should be structured to highlight its methodological contributions. Authors are encouraged to keep their manuscripts within a similar length to those submitted for the proceedings track. Manuscripts may be under review elsewhere but must not be published or in press at the time of submission. Manuscripts already in press or published may instead be submitted as an abstract for the Highlights track.
To indicate that your submission should be considered for the overlay track, please include “[Overlay]” at the end of the paper title.
Abstracts for Highlights, Short Talks, or Posters
Abstracts describing original work will be considered for short oral presentations or posters. Authors should submit a 1-2 page abstract outlining the methods and key results via the EasyChair system. Submissions may describe work that is either recently published or still in progress.
Paper and Abstract Submission Procedures
Manuscripts for the Proceedings Track should not exceed 10 pages using at least 10 point font on U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper with no less than one inch margin all around. This excludes the cover page and references. The cover page should have the title and the corresponding author’s email address. An optional short appendix can be included if necessary but reading it will be at the discretion of the program committee. Manuscripts must be submitted electronically in PDF format via the EasyChair system.
In EasyChair, please select “RECOMB-PE 2025” track within RECOMB conference at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recomb2025
An author of each accepted paper or abstract is expected to attend the conference in person to present the work.
Special handling of papers submitted to RECOMB 2025
If your paper was not selected by RECOMB 2025 and you wish to submit it to RECOMB-P&E, you have the option to transfer your reviews. To do so, please submit a single combined PDF that includes the reviews from RECOMB, followed by a rebuttal addressing the concerns raised. The manuscript should be revised according to the reviews or include an explanation of why revisions were not made. All reviews will be treated confidentially and will only be accessible to the program committee members. Authors of papers rejected by RECOMB 2024 may also submit their papers to RECOMB-P&E without transferring their reviews, if they prefer.