IMPORTANT DATES:
All deadlines are 11:59 PM Anywhere on Earth (AoE).
Submission deadline: May 15th, 2026
Author notification: June 15th, 2026
Camera-ready version: July 1st, 2026
Workshop day: September 4th, 2026

MOTIVATION:
Biomedical research and healthcare are increasingly data-driven, yet practitioners regularly struggle with data management challenges. Data management researchers are well-equipped to tackle many of these challenges and are actively seeking new research directions. We are organizing BioDMS to help bring these two communities together, unlock the potential for novel solutions, and eventually aid in accelerating the pace of progress in research and patient care. The workshop will feature a mix of talks by speakers from the two communities, as well as networking opportunities.

WEBSITE: https://biodms.org/

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Areas of particular interest for the workshop include (but are not limited to):
- Scalable storage and querying of large biomedical datasets
- Data integration and interoperability across clinical institutions, populations, and time scales
- Data quality, preprocessing, and curation pipelines for biomedical data
- Workflow automation, data lifecycle governance, and reproducible research
- Privacy-preserving and secure processing of sensitive medical datasets
- Domain-specific ontologies, semantic modeling, and knowledge graphs
- High-throughput analytics over heterogeneous datasets (e.g., genomics, imaging, clinical records, etc.)
- Collaborative platforms for biomedical data sharing and access

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:
We encourage the community to submit proposals for talks that will (1) highlight key problems and/or potential solutions, and, optionally, (2) outline visions of collaborative projects. Hence, we will accept two types of submissions:
- Lightning Talk Proposal (2-page abstract, 5-minute talk): Present a data-intensive biomedical informatics workflow or a data system/tool that is applicable to biomedical workflows.
- Project Talk Proposal (4-page short paper, 10-minute talk): Outline a work-in-progress collaborative project or present a viable project vision with the potential to meaningfully advance moth biomedical and data management research.

SUBMISSION LINK: https://openreview.net/group?id=VLDB.org/2026/Workshop/BioDMS

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: All submissions should be in PDF format, using the official VLDB template and guidelines. Find the template at: https://github.com/haixun/haixun.github.io/blob/master/vldb/vldb-workshop-style-master.zip
Conflicts of Interest (COIs) are handled using the same rules as VLDB 2026. The use of GenAI writing assistants is allowed, but authors are assumed to take full responsibility for the submitted work.

ORGANIZATION
Bojan Karlaš, Harvard
Gerardo Vitagliano, MIT
Benjamin M. Gyori, Northeastern University
Ulf Leser, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin