Johns Hopkins leads the verifiable bioinformatics best-paper count

A focused check of main Best Paper awards at RECOMB and ACM-BCB from 2024 through 20 August 2026 found four winners. Johns Hopkins appears on two; every other verified university appears once, while the ACM-BCB 2024 affiliations remain unresolved.

Johns Hopkins credits

winning papers found

conference series

paper with unresolved affiliations

University credits on verified papers

One credit per winning paper naming the university

Paper credits

Johns Hopkins University

Dartmouth College

MIT

Chalmers University

Johns Hopkins is the provisional leader. It is affiliated with RECOMB 2024’s Centrifuger and ACM-BCB 2025’s Movi Color.

RECOMB supplies the clearest cross-year record. Its 2024 and 2025 main Best Paper winners are both independently documented.

ISMB/ECCB is not comparable as one main prize. The public award structure includes COSI or track-level Best Papers, which were excluded under the original main-conference rule.

The ranking is conservative. ACM-BCB 2024’s winning title and authors are verified, but its institutional credits are not assigned without a verified affiliation source.

Winning papers

Venue	Paper	Award	Primary affiliation(s)
RECOMB 2024	Centrifuger: Lossless compression of microbial genomes for efficient and accurate metagenomic sequence classification	Best Paper Award	Johns Hopkins University; Dartmouth College
ACM-BCB 2024	Spatiotemporal attention boosts calling of complicated variations from long reads’ alignment data	Best Paper Award	Unresolved
RECOMB 2025	Graph-based deep reinforcement learning for haplotype assembly with Ralphi	Best Paper Award	Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard; MIT
ACM-BCB 2025	Movi Color	Best Paper Award	Johns Hopkins University; Chalmers University of Technology; Roche

Method: web search across official conference, publisher, paper, and institutional sources on 20 August 2026. Counts cover main Best Paper awards at RECOMB and ACM-BCB; student, SIGBIO, poster, COSI/track, application, honorable-mention, and other specialist prizes are excluded. No verified 2026 winner was found in the searched public sources.

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