22/10/2025
🚨 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS officially open for the 19th Annual International Biocuration Conference, to be held from 20 to 24 April 2026, in the vibrant city of Cape Town, South Africa. 🌍
This is the first time the International Biocuration Conference 2026 will be hosted on the African continent, an exciting opportunity to engage with curators, developers, data scientists, and researchers from across the globe.
Don’t miss the chance to register early and secure your place at reduced rates. Themes for the conference are listed on the flyer below.
To submit an abstract, please scan the QR code on the flyer or click on this link 👉: https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/form/biocuration-2025-registration and submit by the 21st of November 2025 📰
Travel fellowships by the African Bioinformatics Institute are also available, and subject to review. You'll be required to complete the registration form and submit by the 14th of November 2025 🌐
To be considered for the ISB-specific travel fellowships, please fill in this form 👉: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSepAOcIPqGc2IOzUPL5-8JdYu0BflDn04L75ZC3c9b5u39uQg/viewform and submit by the 31st of October 2025 📆
The 2026 conference is co-organized by African Bioinformatics Institute, in collaboration with the International Society for Biocuration, the African Genomics Datahub, and the SickleInAfrica, Sickle Africa Data Coordinating Center (SADaCC) ‼️
We hope you can all join us for this inaugural conference on the African continent- please spread the word! 💡
For more information on the conference, please click on this link:https://www.bioinformaticsinstitute.africa/events/6/19th_Annual_International_Biocuration_Conference
