We are excited to announce the 2nd ICIIBMS conference, hosted by the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, University of the Ryukyus, and the National Institute of Technology, Okinawa College. ICIIBMS is co-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society (IEEE CS), IEEE CS Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS), and the Applied Science and Computer Science Publications and Tomy Corportation. This year’s event will be held in beautiful Okinawa, Japan at the OIST campus from November 24 – 26, 2017.