Liu, ZhandongZheng, W. JimAllen, Genevera ILiu, YinRuan, JianhuaZhao, Zhongming2017-10-082017-10-082017-10-03Liu, Zhandong, Zheng, W. Jim, Allen, Genevera I, et al.. "The International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM) 2016: from big data to big analytical tools." (2017) BioMed Central: http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1797-3.https://hdl.handle.net/1911/97778Abstract The 2016 International Conference on Intelligent Biology and Medicine (ICIBM 2016) was held on December 8–10, 2016 in Houston, Texas, USA. ICIBM included eight scientific sessions, four tutorials, one poster session, four highlighted talks and four keynotes that covered topics on 3D genomics structural analysis, next generation sequencing (NGS) analysis, computational drug discovery, medical informatics, cancer genomics, and systems biology. Here, we present a summary of the nine research articles selected from ICIBM 2016 program for publishing in BMC Bioinformatics.This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.Conference paper2017-10-08http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12859-017-1797-3enThe Author(s).