why don’t biologists use openreview?

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Bench biologists generally do not use OpenReview for ordinary conferences. OpenReview is common in machine learning and adjacent computational fields, and it has leaked into computational biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and AI-for-health venues. For example, ACM BCB 2025 and 2026 have OpenReview pages, and IEEE BHI 2025 explicitly advertised OpenReview for regular conference papers. (OpenReview) But that is not the modal ASCB, GRC, CSHL, Keystone, FASEB, Gordon-style bench-biology meeting.

The big historical split is: computer science made conferences into archival publications; biology made conferences into social and scientific coordination events around work