CIBB Conferences on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics
CIBB is an international annual scientific conference on computational intelligence and computational statistics applied to bioinformatics, biostatistics, medical informatics, and cheminformatics.
The main goal of the CIBB international conferences is to provide a multidisciplinary forum for researchers interested in applying computational intelligence, in a broad sense, to open problems in bioinformatics, biostatistics, systems and synthetic biology, medical informatics, and cheminformatics. Cutting-edge methodologies capable of accelerating discoveries in the life sciences, as well as the results of studies in these areas, are discussed by participants each year during the conference.
Following its tradition and roots, this scientific meeting brings together researchers from the international community who are interested in advancements and future perspectives in the applications of computer science, machine learning, and computational statistics to biology, medicine, healthcare, and chemistry. Moreover, given current trends and future opportunities at the interface between computing and the life sciences, the application of computational intelligence to systems and synthetic biology—and its resulting impact on innovative medicine—are of particular interest to the conference. Theoretical and experimental biologists are also invited to participate in order to present novel challenges and foster multidisciplinary collaboration, including new directions related to theoretical computer science.
Participants of the confence usually include university professors, researchers, students, research centers scientists, and professionals from industries and biomedical companies.
After each year's conference, its peer-reviewed articles are published in the proceedings volumes of Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) and selected extended peer-reviewed articles are published in supplements or special issues of journals such as BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, BMC Genomics, BMC Pharmacology and Toxicology, Soft Computing, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, or International Journal of Approximate Reasoning.
The CIBB conference guarantees the high quality of the scientific papers presented through a rigorous double peer review process. First, short papers are peer-reviewed by anonymous experts which decide if they are accepted for the conference or rejected. And after the conference, the extended articles based on the short papers undergo a second peer review process which decide if they can be published in the post-proceedings books, in the supplement journals, or rejected. Therefore, if an article is ultimately published in a CIBB journal supplement or in a CIBB proceedings volume, it means it has survived two processes of anonymous peer review.
The CIBB conference proceedings have been published by Springer within the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) book series, and are currently indexed in Scopus, Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index, Semantic Scholar, Google Scholar, and other bibliography article databases.
The CIBB conferences support the principles of open science by encouraging article athors to use open source programming languages (such as R or Python), to openly publish their software code and their data, and to publish articles in open access journals.
The CIBB scientific meetings have always attracted a high number of young participants and women: the CIBB 2025 conference in Milan was attended by 260 participants, with 42% being women.
When and where
The next edition of the conference, CIBB 2026, will happen at Sapienza University in Rome (Italy, EU) in person on 2nd, 3rd, 4th September 2026.
CIBB 2026 will be organized by Umberto Ferraro Petrillo and his team.
Please check out the CIBB 2026 website: https://cibb2026.teralab.ai
Future editions
We will then consider applications for the organization of the future edition of the conference (CIBB 2027). Would you like to host the CIBB 2027 edition at your university or research centre?
Or are you interested to help in the organization of the next CIBB conference edition, wherever it will be?
If yes, please send us an email at davidechicco(AT)davidechicco.it and let's talk about it.
Conference history
The International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) conference series was originally founded by Roberto Tagliaferri (Università di Salerno, Italy, EU), Francesco Masulli (Università di Genova, Italy, EU), and Antonina Starita (Università di Pisa, Italy, EU), who formed its initial steering committee in 2004. The conference began as a special session of the 14th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN 2004) in Perugia (Italy, EU), and was a special session of international conferences organized in Italy for its first four editions.
CIBB became an independent conference in October 2008 with its first autonomous edition held in Vietri sul Mare (Italy, EU), just a few months after sad passing of the CIBB founder Antonina Starita (1939-2008).
Since 2004, the CIBB conference series has generated 15 proceedings books, 4 sections of proceedings books, and 10 journal supplements, which together contain approximately 450 peer-reviewed original scientific publications. To date, approximately 1,600 participants have attended the CIBB conferences.
The CIBB 2026 upcoming international meeting, scheduled to be held in Rome (Italy, EU) in September 2026, will mark the 21st edition of the CIBB conference.
Conference editions websites
CIBB 2026, Rome, Italy (upcoming edition)
21st edition. Dates: 2–4 September 2026
General chairs: Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Marta Cipriani, Roberta De Vito, Lorenzo Di Rocco
Location: Dipartimento di Scienze Statistiche, Sapienza Università di Roma, Rome, Italy, EU
Email contact: cibb2026(AT)uniroma1.it
CIBB 2025, Milan, Italy
20th edition. Dates: 10–12 September 2025
General chairs: Silvia Cascianelli, Sofia Mongardi, Marco Masseroli
Keynote speakers: Valentina Boeva, Mats Julius Stensrud
Invited speakers: Natasa Przulj, Paulo Lisboa
Location: Building 3, Campus Leonardo, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, EU
CIBB 2024, Benevento, Italy
19th edition. Dates: 4–6 September 2024
General chairs: Francesco Napolitano, Luigi Cerulo
Keynote speakers: Michele Ceccarelli, Ruth Heller, Marieke Kuijjer
Invited speakers: Claudio Angione
Location: Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie, Università del Sannio, Benevento, Italy, EU
CIBB 2023, Padua, Italy
18th edition. Dates: 4–6 September 2023
General chairs: Martina Vettoretti, Erica Tavazzi, Enrico Longato
Keynote speakers: Blaž Zupan, Arianna Dagliati, Jessica Barrett
Invited speakers: Davide Risso, Marco Beccuti, Marco Antoniotti
Location: Polo Multifunzionale di Psicologia, Università di Padova, Padua, Italy, EU
CIBB 2021, online, virtual edition
17th edition. Dates: 15–17 November 2021
General chairs: Davide Chicco, Angelo Facchiano, Margherita Mutarelli
Keynote speakers: Karsten Borgwardt, Ombretta Melaiu, André M Carrington, Stefano Tonzani, Olaf Wolkenhauer
Invited speakers: Dmytro Fishman
Web streaming platform: WeConf.eu
CIBB 2019, Bergamo, Italy
16th edition. Dates: 4–6 September 2019
General chairs: Paolo Cazzaniga, Ivan Merelli, Daniela Besozzi
Keynote speakers: M Luz Calle, Ana Cvejic, Uzay Kaymak
Invited speakers: Marco Masseroli
Location: ex Monastero di Sant'Agostino, Università di Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy, EU
CIBB 2018, Caparica, Portugal
15th edition. Dates: 6–8 September 2018
General chairs: Maria Raposo, Paulo Lisboa, Giorgio Valentini
Keynote speakers: Alberto Paccanaro, Alexandra Carvalho, Benoit Liquet, Fernando L Ferreira, Veronica Vinciotti
Location: Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Caparica, Portugal
CIBB 2017, Cagliari, Italy
14th edition. Dates: 7–9 September 2017
General chairs: Massimo Bartoletti, Gunnar Klau, Leif Peterson
Keynote speakers: Alessandra Carbone, Valentina Boeva, Manja Marz
Location: Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy, EU.
CIBB 2016, Stirling, Scotland
13th edition. Dates: 1–3 September 2016
General chairs: Andrea Bracciali, David Gilbert, Gilbert MacKenzie
Keynote speakers: Mark Beaumont, Natalio Krasnogor, Antonietta Mira, Bud Mishra, Daniela Paolotti, Guido Sanguinetti
Location: Computer Science Division, University of Stirling, Stirling, Scotland
CIBB 2015, Naples, Italy
12th edition. Dates: 10–12 September 2015
General chairs: Claudia Angelini, Adriano Decarli, Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Keynote speakers: Michele Ceccarelli, Dario Greco, Dirk Husmeier, Wessel van Wieringen
Location: Area Territoriale di Ricerca Napoli 1, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Naples, Italy, EU.
CIBB 2014, Cambridge, England
11th edition. Dates: 26–28 June 2014
General chairs: Clelia Di Serio, Pietro Liò, Sylvia Richardson, Roberto Tagliaferri
Keynote speakers: Monica Chiogna, Chris Holmes, Jean Michel Marin
Location: Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
CIBB 2013 (co-organized with PRIB 2013), Nice, France
10th edition. Dates: 20–22 June 2013
General chairs: Enrico Formenti, Ernst Wit, Roberto Tagliaferri
Keynote speakers: Anne Siegel, Ernst Wit, Sylvain Sené
Location: Château de Valrose, Nice, France, EU
CIBB 2012, Houston, Texas, USA
9th edition. Dates: 12–14 July 2012
General chairs: Leif Peterson, Francesco Masulli, Giuseppe Russo
Keynote speakers: Jim Bezdek, Elia Biganzoli, Douglas Robinson
Location: Methodist Hospital Research Institute, Houston, Texas, USA
CIBB 2011, Gargnano, Italy
8th edition. Dates: 30 June 30–2 July 2011
General chairs: Elia Biganzoli, Andrea Tettamanzi, Alfredo Vellido
Keynote speakers: Nikola Kasabov, Clelia Di Serio, Elena Marchiori
Location: Palazzo Feltrinelli, Gargnano, Italy, EU
CIBB 2010, Palermo, Italy
7th edition. Dates: 16–18 September 2010
General chairs: Paulo J Lisboa, Riccardo Rizzo
Keynote speakers: Raffaele Giancarlo, Paulo J Lisboa, Gianluca Pollastri
Location: Palazzo Comitini, Palermo, Italy, EU
CIBB 2009, Genoa, Italy
6th edition. Dates: 15–17 October 2009
General chairs: Francesco Masulli, Leif E Peterson, Roberto Tagliaferri
Keynote speakers: Gilles Bernot, Taishin Nomura
Location: Oratorio San Filippo Neri, Genoa, Italy, EU
CIBB 2008, Vietri sul Mare, Italy
5th edition. Dates: 3–4 October 2008
General chairs: Francesco Masulli, Roberto Tagliaferri, Gennady M Verkhivker
Keynote speakers: Mario Lauria, Nicolas Le Novere, Giorgio Valentini
Location: Istituto Internazionale per gli Alti Studi Scientifici, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, EU
CIBB 2007 (within WILF 2007), Camogli, Italy
4th edition. Dates: 7–10 July 2007
General chairs: Roberto Tagliaferri, Giorgio Valentini
Keynote speakers: Joaquin Dopazo, Sushmita Mitra
Location: Portofino Kulm Hotel, Camogli, Italy, EU
CIBB 2006 (within FLINS 2006), Genoa, Italy
3rd edition. Dates: 30 August 2006
General chairs: Francesco Masulli, Antonina Starita, Roberto Tagliaferri
Location: Starhotel President Hotel, Genoa, Italy, EU
CIBB 2005 (within WILF 2005), Crema, Italy
2nd edition. Dates: 15–17 September 2005
General chairs: Francesco Masulli, Antonina Starita, Roberto Tagliaferri
Keynote speakers: Pierre Baldi
Location: Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università Statale di Milano, Crema, Italy, EU
CIBB 2004 (within WIRN 2004), Perugia, Italy
1st edition. Dates: 14–15 September 2004
General chairs: Francesco Masulli, Antonina Starita, Roberto Tagliaferri
Location: Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Perugia, Perugia, Italy, EU
