Introduction to SBW2026

The Swedish Bioinformatics Workshop (SBW) is an annual event organised by different Swedish universities since 2000, and is the largest gathering of bioinformaticians and computational biologists in Sweden. The meeting welcomes participants from all career stages and sectors, with a strong focus on PhD students and postdocs.

This year’s edition will take place in Gothenburg at the Wallenberg Conference Center. The programme will feature keynote presentations, contributed talks, hands-on workshops, and a poster session, with national and international speakers. SBW2026 aligns with the Nordic Computational Biology week.

Programme at a glance

• Two full days of talks, six themed sessions, and a dedicated poster session
• Four hands-on workshops: Academic writing, Visualising science, Data management, and one topic to be announced
• Networking opportunities with national and international keynote speakers

Keynote topics

• Translational research
• Multi-omics
• Single-cell technologies
• Cancer genomics
• Machine learning / AI
• Metagenomics

Early‑career opportunities

SBW strongly encourages PhD students and postdocs to submit abstracts for contributed talks and posters. Details on abstract submission will be announced together with registration information.

Registration

Registration will open soon. Further details and the abstract submission timeline will be posted on the registration page.

Registration fees

Preliminary (subject to change)

Students include all PhD students as well as Master’s students in their final thesis year.

Programme

The full programme will be published ahead of the event. Updates will appear here as session topics, workshops, and invited speakers are confirmed.