Advanced datamining using RNAseq data / Yan Guo, Shilin Zhao, Margot Bjoring, Leng Han -- Text mining on big and complex biomedical literature / Boya Xie, Qin Ding, Di Wu -- Interactive data visualization techniques applied to healthcare decision making / Zhecheng Zhu, Heng Bee Hoon, Kiok-Liang Teow -- Large-scale regulatory network analysis from microarray data: application to seed biology / Anamika Basu, Anasua Sarkar -- Detection and employment of biological sequence motifs / Marjan Trutschl, Phillip C. S. R. Kilgore, Rona S. Scott, Christine E. Birdwell, Urska Cvek -- Observer-biased analysis of gene expression profiles / Paulo Fazendeiro, José Valente de Oliveira -- Heuristic principal component analysis-based unsupervised feature extraction and its application to bioinformatics / Y-H. Taguchi, Mitsuo Iwadate, Hideaki Umeyama, Yoshiki Murakami, Akira Okamoto -- The role of big data in radiation oncology: challenges and potentials / Issam El Naqa -- Analysis of genomic data in a cloud computing environment / Philip Groth, Gerhard Reuter, Sebastian Thieme -- Pathway analysis and its applications / Ravi Mathur, Alison Motsinger-Reif -- Computational systems biology perspective on tuberculosis in big data era: challenges and future goals / Amandeep Kaur Kahlon, Ashok Sharma -- Bioinformatics-driven big data analytics in microbial research / Ratna Prabha, Anil Rai, D. P. Singh -- Perspectives on data integration in human complex disease analysis / Kristel Van Steen, Nuria Malats -- Current study designs, methods, and future directions of genetic association mapping / Jami Jackson, Alison Motsinger-Reif -- Personalized disease phenotypes from massive OMICs data / Hans Binder, Lydia Hopp, Kathrin Lembcke, Henry Wirth -- Intellectual property protection for synthetic biology, including bioinformatics and computational intelligence / Matthew K. Knabel, Katherine Doering, Dennis S. Fernandez -- Clinical data linkages in spinal cord injuries (SCI) in Australia: what are the concerns? / Jane Moon, Mary P. Galea, Megan Bohensky -- The benefits of big data analytics in the healthcare sector: what are they and who benefits? / Andrea Darrel, Margee Hume, Timothy Hardie, Jeffery Soar.