Guest Editorial: IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BIBM 2014) Special Issue

The papers in this special section were presented at the IEEE BIBM 2014 conference that was held in Belfast, U.K., from November 18???22, 2014. The scientific program highlights five themes to provide breadth, depth, and synergy for research collaboration: 1) genomics and molecular structure, function, and evolution; 2) computational systems biology; 3) medical informatics and translational bioinformatics; 4) cross-cutting computational methods and bioinformatics infrastructures; and 5) healthcare informatics.