ACM-BCB 2017 Program Chairs’ Welcome

Welcome from the Program Chairs of the 8th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB). The ACM-BCB 2017 conference received 132 paper submissions, 15 submissions in the “Highlight” category, 5 submissions in the “Tutorial” category, 8 submissions in the “Workshop” category, and 62 submissions in the “Poster” category. The 132 paper submissions were grouped into 16 tracks: Advancing Algorithms and Methods, Automated Diagnosis and Prediction, Applications to Healthcare Processes, Applications to Microbes and Imaging Genetics, Big Data in Bioinformatics, Biological Modeling, Clinical Databases and Information Systems, Cancer Genomics, Genomic Variations and Disease, Inferring Phylogenies and Haplotypes, Knowledge Representation Applications, Protein and RNA Analysis, Structure and Dynamics, Sequence Analysis and Genome Assembly, Systems Biology, and Text Mining and Classification.