This virtual issue of DATABASE is dedicated to the ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB). This is a flagship conference of the ACM Special Interest Group on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics. There has been a large growth in the complexity and scale of biological and medical data in the past few decades and ACM-BCB serves to showcase this cutting-edge research.
The following articles were subject to the journal’s normal peer review process, and are collected together here as a ‘virtual issue’.
Knowledge-rich temporal relation identification and classification in clinical notes
Jennifer D’Souza and Vincent Ng
Database 2014: bau109 doi:10.1093/database/bau109
An online system for metabolic network analysis
Abdullah Ercument Cicek, Xinjian Qi, Ali Cakmak, Stephen R. Johnson, Xu Han, Sami Alshalwi, Zehra Meral Ozsoyoglu, and Gultekin Ozsoyoglu
Database 2014: bau091 doi:10.1093/database/bau091
A novel multi-alignment pipeline for high-throughput sequencing data
Shunping Huang, James Holt, Chia-Yu Kao, Leonard McMillan, and Wei Wang
Database 2014: bau057 doi:10.1093/database/bau057
HPVdb: a data mining system for knowledge discovery in human papillomavirus with applications in T cell immunology and vaccinology
Guang Lan Zhang, Angelika B. Riemer, Derin B. Keskin, Lou Chitkushev, Ellis L. Reinherz, and Vladimir Brusic
Database 2014: bau031 doi:10.1093/database/bau031
Determining similarity of scientific entities in annotation datasets
Guillermo Palma, Maria-Esther Vidal, Eric Haag, Louiqa Raschid, and Andreas Thor
Database 2014: bau123 doi:10.1093/database/bau123
