BCB

It is our great pleasure to welcome you to the 10th ACM Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Health Informatics (ACM-BCB 2010). ACM-BCB is the flagship conference of SIGBio, the ACM Special Interest Group in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and Biomedical Informatics. Continuing the annual tradition, the conference focuses on interdisciplinary research linking computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, biomedical informatics, and health informatics.

With the help of an army of volunteers and the numerous contributions of many researchers like yourself we have put together a program that we hope participants will find very interesting and stimulating. The technical program is the centerpiece of our meeting, with 42 peer-reviewed full research papers and 19 short research papers carefully selected from the 157 original submissions to the conference by diligent efforts of the program committee members. Additionally, we have 22 poster presentations and 5 highlight presentations on recently published, cutting-edge and high-impact research. The technical program is enriched by 7 pre-conference workshops and 7 tutorials. The program features diverse sessions including the NSF Travel Fellowship Awardee Forum and the Women in Bioinformatics panel.

Such an organization cannot be accomplished without the selfless devotion of numerous volunteers who have tirelessly worked to shape this year's meeting. We are especially grateful to our program chairs, Jian Ma and Pierangelo Veltri, as well as the army of program committee members who volunteered their time to rigorously review submissions. We thank Jianlin Cheng for selecting high-impact highlight presentations. Special thanks go to Wei Zhang and Xia Ning for putting together a strong and diverse workshop program, Shaun Mahony and Simina Boca for selecting interesting tutorials with broad appeal, and Dong Si and Daniel Mcskimming for bringing an outstanding set of timely research for display at the conference as poster presentations. We are thankful to Preetam Ghosh, yet again, handled registrations smoothly, and our proceedings chair Yang Shen, diligently and meticulously worked with Sheridan Communications and ACM headquarters to produce the conference proceedings in a timely manner for another year.

Special thanks go to Aidong Zhang, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (TCBB), and Dimitrios I. Fotiadis, the Editor-in-Chief of IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics for approving ACM-BCB 2019 to have special issues in their journals. We are thankful to May D. Wang for supporting students and selecting NSF travel grant awardees. We are also grateful to Robert (Bob) W. Cottingham for serving as the Demo and Exhibits Chair, and Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Paolo Soda, and Mattia Prosperi for serving as Publicity Chairs. Special thanks go to May D. Wang for continuing the tradition of organizing the Women in Bioinformatics panel, to Nasrin Akhter and Riza Bautista for spearheading student activities, to Letu Qingge, Julien Kann, and Umit V. Catalyurek for providing web support, and to many student volunteers for providing logistical and operational assistance in preparation for and during the conference. We also thank the ACM staff, especially John Otero for site negotiations and budget planning, Irene Frawley for conference operations and logistics, and Adrienne Griscti (from ACM) and Lisa Tolles (from Sheridan) for their help in printing the proceedings.