New trends in biomedical engineering and bioinformatics applied to biomedicine - special issue of IWBBIO 2014

* Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, CITIC-UGR, University of Granada, 18071 Granada, Spain From 2nd International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering IWBBIO 2014 Granada, Spain. 7-9 April 2014 The present supplement in the BioMedical Engineering OnLine journal is composed by 7 extended papers from the original papers selected from the 2 International Work-Conference on Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering (IWBBIO 2014) held in Granada (Spain) during April 7-9, 2014. These papers were selected due to their significant relevance and the importance of the presented researches and the obtained outcomes. IWBBIO 2014 aimed to create a friendly environment where scientists, engineers, educators and students could discuss and present their latest ideas, researches, theories, models and applications. This conference was specifically oriented to interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields encompassing disciplines such as biomedical engineering, computer science, mathematics, statistics, biomedicine or bioinformatics. The IWBBIO 2014 also sought to establish and to strengthen the cooperation and collaboration among scientists through the presentations of their more recent researches and works in high-quality original papers (including work-in-progress). These original researches dealt with, among others, important challenges in fields like genomics, proteomics, next generation sequencing (NGS), high performance bioinformatics, biological systems modelling, medical informatics, e-health, computational healthcare, biomedical engineering or telemedicine. The IWBBIO 2014 has counted on 197 papers that were carefully reviewed and accordingly accepted by several referees (each submission was reviewed by at least 2, and on the average 2.8, program committee members or additional reviewers). As shown in the conference proceedings of IWBBIO 2014 [1], both full contributions and abstracts were accepted for presentation in this conference. Nevertheless, it can be appreciated that a large majority of the contributions were presented as full papers. It is also important to note that IWBBIO 2014 was held as a two-track conference containing a total of 21 oral and 2 poster sessions. The final number of attendees was 213, from 49 different nationalities. The countries which have contributed with more Ortuño et al. BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2015, 14(Suppl 2):I1 http://www.biomedical-engineering-online.com/content/14/S2/I1