Guest Editorial for ACM BCB

Abstract

The special section includes nine papers, which were invited from the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedicine (ACM BCB) in 2012. ACM BCB is the flagship conference of the ACM SIG on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Biomedical Informatics (SIGBio). In total, 159 papers were submitted to the ACM BCB conference in 2012, among which 33 were accepted as regular papers. Of these, nine 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.