Schönbach, ChristianLi, JinyanMa, LanHorton, PaulSjaugi, Muhammad Farhan2019-11-042019-11-042018-01-19Schönbach, C., Li, J., Ma, L., Horton, P., Sjaugi, M. F., & Ranganathan, S. (2018). A bioinformatics potpourri. BMC Genomics, 19(Suppl 1), 920. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4326-xhttps://doi.org/10.1186/s12864-017-4326-xhttp://nur.nu.edu.kz/handle/123456789/4284The 16th International Conference on Bioinformatics (InCoB) was held at Tsinghua University, Shenzhen from September 20 to 22, 2017. The annual conference of the Asia-Pacific Bioinformatics Network featured six keynotes, two invited talks, a panel discussion on big data driven bioinformatics and precision medicine, and 66 oral presentations of accepted research articles or posters. Fifty-seven articles comprising a topic assortment of algorithms, biomolecular networks, cancer and disease informatics, drug-target interactions and drug efficacy, gene regulation and expression, imaging, immunoinformatics, metagenomics, next generation sequencing for genomics and transcriptomics, ontologies, post-translational modification, and structural bioinformatics are the subject of this editorial for the InCoB2017 supplement issues in BMC Genomics, BMC Bioinformatics, BMC Systems Biology and BMC Medical Genomics. New Delhi will be the location of InCoB2018, scheduled for September 26–28, 2018.enAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United StatesA bioinformatics potpourriArticle