[General] Call for Contributions - Bio+MedVis Challenge at IEEE VIS 2023

The Bio+MedVis challenge is a yearly event for everyone interested in the interface between biology, medicine, and visualization. The challenge provides cutting-edge data with an opportunity to showcase your creative skills to find new ways of visual exploration toward new scientific discoveries. This year’s challenge will be based on a study recently published in Cancer Cell by the ProCan team (Gonçalves et al., 2022). The study aimed to generate a comprehensive pan-cancer proteomic map of human cell lines to aid in the discovery of cancer biomarkers and the development of new cancer treatments. The main challenge will be to create an integrated overview of cell-type / tissue-type / cancer-type distributions of both single proteins as well as protein categories. There will also be a re-design challenge connected to improving the representation/interaction strategies used for one of the figures in the paper. Submission deadline: August 10th, 2023 The best submissions will be invited to present their work during the conference. For details, visit: http://biovis.net/2023/biovisChallenges_vis/ Contact: biovis_challenge(a)ieeevis.org Organizers: Barbora Kozlikova, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Daniel Jönsson, Linköping University, Sweden Renata Raidou, TU Wien, Austria Sean O’Donoghue, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney