Guest Editorial for the ACM International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics

It is our great pleasure to present this special issue of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. The special issue includes six papers, which were invited from the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM BCB) in 2017. ACM BCB is the flagship conference of the ACM SIG on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio). In total, 212 papers were submitted to the ACM BCB conference in 2017, among which 50 were accepted as regular papers. Of these, six were invited for the special section. These papers were significantly extended from their earlier versions and went through a separate revision process. These papers cover a broad spectrum of applications, and have great potential to further bioinformatics and computational biology research.