ECCB 2026 Proceedings now published in Bioinformatics

The ECCB 2026 Proceedings are now available in a dedicated supplement of Bioinformatics. 

Discover the peer-reviewed research selected for presentation at ECCB 2026, covering the conference’s five scientific areas: Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteins & Structural Biology, Systems Biology, and Biodiversity.
Read the issue

54 peer-reviewed papers, published open access (CC-BY) as a supplementary issue of Bioinformatics (Oxford University Press), fully citable and indexed in Medline and ISI. Every paper in the issue becomes a talk in Geneva: 15 minutes on stage, three minutes for questions, from 31 August to 2 September at the CICG.

What's inside

The issue runs across five areas.

• Biodiversity (7 papers). Inverton detection in low-depth metagenomes, host prediction for giant viruses, gut microbiota signatures that predict long-term health status.
• Genomics (13 papers). Variant calling from raw nanopore signal, privacy scoring for synthetic human genome data, liquid biopsies that separate tumour-derived from host-derived cancer risk.
• Proteins (13 papers). Linear-time protein backbone generation, de novo epitope-specific antibody design, faster docking for the SwissDock web server.
• Systems biology (10 papers). Compensatory pathways in genetic interaction networks, microbiome and metabolome shifts in disease, automated detection of perineural invasion in whole slide images.
• Transcriptomics (11 papers). Cell annotation with local generative AI, differential spatial patterns in spatial omics data, patient subgroups in Huntington's disease.

How the papers were selected

ECCB 2026 asked for full manuscripts rather than abstracts: original, previously unpublished work in computational biology, covering new methods and their application across the life sciences, from biology and medicine to environmental science. Authors whose manuscripts were not selected for a proceedings talk were offered a poster instead.

The issue opens with an editorial from the proceedings chairs. 

Read it before you arrive

The papers are free to read now, which makes them a good way to build your programme before day one.