The 9th Korea-Singapore Joint Workshop on Bioinformatics and Natural Language Processing (http://ksw09.biopathway.org) was held in Oh Sang Soo Seminar Room at KAIST. The researchers from Singapore include Prof. Limsoon Wong (Professor and Head of Computer Science and Professor of Pathology at NUS) and Prof. Jung-Jae Kim, who received BSc, MS, and PhD all from CS Department at KAIST and recently joined the faculty of NTU in Singapore.