The future of biomedical research lies at the crossroads of data gathering, hypothesis generation, and hypothesis testing. Together with the ability of generating vast amounts of data, advanced technologies also brought the challenge of translating such data into a better understanding of biological and medical phenomena. BCB2019 is continuing effort of gathering researchers, students, and industrial practitioners for exchanging of ideas and research results and in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology. More details at: http://kse2019.ued.udn.vn/special-sessions