Guest Editorial for Special Section on BIBM 2015

The six papers in this special section were presented at the IEEE BIBM 2015 conference that was held in Washington, D.C., November 9-12, 2015. The scientific program highlighted 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,