Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology,and Health Informatics

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2017). The meeting is the flagship conference of SIGBio, the ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics. Continuing the tradition, the conference focuses on interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics. With the help of numerous volunteers but most importantly with the contributions of many researchers like yourself we have put together a program that we hope that everyone will find very interesting and stimulating. The technical program is the centerpiece of our meeting with 42 peer-reviewed full research papers and 28 short research papers, carefully selected from the 132 original submissions to the conference by diligent efforts of the members of program committee. Additionally, we have approximately 60 poster presentations and eight highlights presentations on recently published research. The technical program is enriched by six pre-conference workshops, four tutorials and featured sessions such as the NSF Travel Fellowship Awardee Forum and a panel on Women in Bioinformatics. We are also pleased that the Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI) is colocated with ACM-BCB this year and will be sharing plenary talks and running parallel sessions alongside ACM BCB.