title: Intelligent biology and medicine in 2015: advancing interdisciplinary education, collaboration, and data science.
abstract: We summarize the 2015 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2015) and the editorial report of the supplement to BMC Genomics. The supplement includes 20 research articles selected from the manuscripts submitted to ICIBM 2015. The conference was held on November 13-15, 2015 at Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. It included eight scientific sessions, three tutorials, four keynote presentations, three highlight talks, and a poster session that covered current research in bioinformatics, systems biology, computational biology, biotechnologies, and computational medicine.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, 43210, USA.
authors.forename: Kun
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.|Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
authors.forename: Yunlong
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Liu
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA.
authors.forename: Yufei
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical and Molecular Genetics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.|Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, 46202, USA.
authors.forename: Lang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
authors.affiliation: Department of Biomedical Informatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.|Department of Biomedical Engineering, Emory University / Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, 30322, USA.
authors.forename: Lee
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cooper
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer Science, The University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX, 78249, USA. Jianhua.Ruan@utsa.edu.
authors.forename: Jianhua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ruan
authors.affiliation: Center for Precision Health, School of Biomedical Informatics, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, TX, 77030, USA. zhongming.zhao@uth.tmc.edu.
authors.forename: Zhongming
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Zhao
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000639:trends*; D004501:Education, Medical; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks / Q000235:genetics; D023281:Genomics; D006801:Humans; D049490:Systems Biology