The 3th Workshop on
Challenges and Opportunities in Network Medicine and Multi Omics bioinformatics’ approaches for studying human complex diseases
held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2026 - December 1-4, 2026, Dallas, USA
The 3th Workshop on
Challenges and Opportunities in Network Medicine and Multi Omics bioinformatics’ approaches for studying human complex diseases
held in conjunction with IEEE BIBM 2026 - December 1-4, 2026, Dallas, USA
Workshop Organizers and Program Chairs
Prof. Paola Paci, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering "Antonio Ruberti", Sapienza University of Rome (DIAG-Sapienza)
Dr. Giulia Fiscon, San Raffaele University of Rome
Dr. Federica Conte, Institute for system analysis and computer science "Antonio Ruberti", National Research Council of Rome (IASI-CNR)
Brief description
The functioning of living organisms is controlled by highly complex networks of interacting molecular components like signal transduction, protein-protein interaction, metabolic and gene regulatory networks. Disease analysis has recently undergone a paradigm shift due to the unprecedented amount of multiple omics data produced and the introduction of network science which moved understanding of disease etiology and progression from the level of single molecules to perturbations upon the complex intracellular network. The new emerging paradigm of “Network Medicine” proposes to utilize insights gained from network topology to understand better the pathogenic behaviour of complex molecular interconnections that traditional methods fail to recognize. As methodologies evolve, network medicine has the potential to capture the molecular complexity of human diseases, while offering computational methods to discern how such complexity can control disease manifestations, prognosis, and therapy. Network-based methods for predicting individual manifestations of human disease and designing rational therapies have been spotlighted as necessary tools toward a precision medicine. Furthermore, network medicine represents a fertile ground on which to develop multi-omics data integration approaches that can pay the way for a better comprehension of biological systems and enable more robust disease classification and discovery of biomarkers and drug targets.
Following the ever-growing progresses and new insights in this cutting-edge field, we propose the 3th international workshop on challenges and opportunities in Network Medicine and Multi-Omics bioinformatics’ approaches for studying human complex diseases held in conjunction with the 2026 IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM). The aim of this workshop will be: (i) highlight novel research in the area of network science and complex systems coupled with its application to biology, medicine, and pharmacology; (ii) bring together researchers from disciplines related to Computational Biology and Medicine, System Biology, Bioinformatics, and Health informatics to share their research findings and their insights; (iii) provide a networking opportunity for collaborations in regional, national, EU and international research programmes; and (iv) serve as a forum for participants to discuss the challenges and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Research topics
Potential topics include, but are not limited to:
Biological data mining
Multi-omics data integration
Network-based drug discovery and drug repurposing
Clustering and community detection in biological networks
Knowledge-driven approaches in biomarker identification and patients’ stratification
Disease genes detection
Modelling and simulation in healthcare and biomedicine
Analysis, methods, and tools for precision medicine
Important dates
Oct 10, 2026: Due date for full workshop papers submission
Nov 5, 2026: Notification of paper acceptance to authors
Nov 21, 2026: Camera-ready of accepted papers
Dec 1-4, 2026: Workshop
Workshop schedule
Location:
Program:
Link for the website of the main conference: https://ieeebibm.org/BIBM2026/
Link for paper submission: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Fee: on the conference site
Program Committee Members
Paola Paci
Sapienza University of Rome
Giulia Fiscon
San Raffaele University of Rome
Federica Conte
National Research Council of Rome
Mario Guarracino
University of Cassino and Southern Lazio
Pasquale Sibilio
Sapienza University of Rome
Matteo Pallocca
IRCCS Istituto Nazionale Tumori Regina Elena (IFO)
Vincenzo Bonnici
University of Parma
Federico Papa
National Research Council of Rome
Federica D'Annunzio
Sapienza University of Rome
Vittorio De Iuliis
San Raffaele University of Rome
Proceedings
Publications: Alongside Conference. All accepted papers will be included in the main conference proceedings which are included in the IEEE digital library indexed by Google Scholar and Scopus.