“…Modern technologies in medicine more and more become interconnected with advances in sequencing in fundamental evolutionary studies. Previously published special issues of BMC Evolutionary Biology and BMC Genomics covered the proceedings of BGRS\SB-2016 conference and SBB-2015 School in Novosibirsk [ 1 – 4 ] as well as BGRS\SB-2014 event ( https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-15-supplement-12 ). The materials on evolutionary biology and genetics were recently published in BMC Evol Biol ( https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-17-supplement-2 ) and BMC Genetics Supplements ( https://bmcgenet.biomedcentral.com/articles/supplements/volume-18-supplement-1 ), correspondingly [ 5 , 6 ].…”