Message from HIBIBI 2014 chairs

The ubiquity of informatics is evidently seen in all aspects of our societies and scientific communities, including but not limited to health care, medical science and biological science. Large volumes of data are generated daily by electronic medical record systems, clinical trials, and genome sequencing efforts, to name a few. In addition to the sheer size of the data, their heterogeneous nature further demands advanced informatics solutions for aggregating, organizing, retrieving, and mining useful knowledge and patterns from data that originate from various sources.