The purpose of BIOSTEC is to bring together researchers and practitioners, including engineers, biologists, health professionals and informatics/computer scientists, interested in both theoretical advances and applications of information systems, artificial intelligence, signal processing, electronics and other engineering tools in knowledge areas related to biology and medicine. BIOSTEC is composed of five co-located conferences, each specialized in a different knowledge area.

The proceedings will be submitted for evaluation for indexing by: SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Engineering Village, Web of Science.