Short talks and Posters

RECOMB-ARCH invites the submission of abstracts for the short talk and poster tracks. Abstracts can also be simultaneously submitted for display at the main RECOMB Meeting poster session. Posters accepted to both RECOMB-ARCH and RECOMB are welcome to be displayed at both meetings.

Topics

Talks and/or posters reporting on original research on acceleration of computing in all areas of computational molecular biology are suitable for submission. The emphasis will be on new hardware-algorithm co-design, hardware accelerators (e.g., FPGA, NPU, GPU, PIM), and domain-specific languages for bioinformatics workloads.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Hardware-Accelerated Genomic Data Processing

  • Optimized hardware/algorithms for read mapping, whole-genome alignment, and de novo assembly acceleration
  • Architectures for high-throughput genomic data streaming and pre-processing (e.g., base calling, demultiplexing)

Hardware Acceleration Techniques and Architectures

  • FPGA, GPU, ASIC, PIM (Processing-In-Memory), and NPU (Neural Processing Unit) accelerators for core bioinformatics algorithms
  • Hardware/software co-design for computational biology
  • Domain-Specific Architectures (DSAs) for bioinformatics workloads (e.g., aligners, variant callers)
  • Novel memory architectures and I/O optimization for large genomic datasets

Accelerating Downstream Bioinformatics Analysis

  • Hardware-aware algorithms for metagenomics, pan-genomics, and genome graph traversal
  • High-speed solutions for single-cell and spatial transcriptomics data processing (e.g., UMI counting, clustering, dimensionality reduction)
  • Structural biology and drug design
  • Optimization of machine learning/deep learning models (e.g., CNNs, RNNs, Transformers) used in omics for specialized hardware

Tools, Languages, and Infrastructure

  • Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and high-level synthesis tools for programming bioinformatics hardware accelerators
  • Static and dynamic optimization passes for bioinformatics workloads
  • Optimized Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for heterogeneous computing platforms for bioinformatics pipelines
  • Benchmarking, performance modeling, and energy-efficiency analysis of bioinformatics accelerators
  • Cloud and edge computing architectures for accelerated bioinformatics

Specific Accelerated Bioinformatics Workloads

  • Accelerating dynamic programming algorithms (e.g., Smith-Waterman, Needleman-Wunsch) and their approximations
  • Efficient hardware implementations of compression algorithms for genomic data
  • Accelerated methods for genome-wide association studies (GWAS) and population genetics
  • Hardware-optimized data structures (e.g., k-mer indices, Bloom filters, FM-index, learned indexes)

Please submit a 250-word abstract of your talk or poster that describes its primary results. Your submission should also include the author(s), their affiliations, the presenting author, the e-mail address of at least the contact author and the talk or poster title as requested by the submission system. The abstract should be plain text and should not contain any figures.

Please visit the EasyChair system to submit your talk or poster abstract. The submission system will close on April 20, 2026, 23:59 AoE. Acceptance notifications will be sent out shortly after submission. For further questions, please contact the PC Chair Yatish Turakhia.

EasyChair link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=recomb2026.

  • Abstract submission deadline: April 20, 2026, 23:59 AoE
  • Authors will be notified shortly after submission