Next-Generation Sequencing-driven analysis and Systems Biology approaches commonly serve as a backdrop for a study of a tumor genome. This issue of BMC Medical Genomics SBB-2019 ("Systems Biology and Bioinformatics") presents recent works discussed at the 11th Young Scientists School "Systems Biology and Bioinformatics"-2019, held in Novosibirsk, Russia (http://conf.bionet.nsc.ru/sbb2 019/en/). Here we collated some cancer gene expression studies, some mutation profiling studies as well as some insightful case reports. The SBB school series on bioinformatics proceeds annually since 2008 under the joint steerage of the Institute of Cytology and Genetics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Novosibirsk State University [1, 2]. We had publications in special topic issues after the Schools before in BMC Genomics, BMC Medical Genomics and related BioMed Central family journals since 2014 [3-5]. The SBB Schools in Novosibirsk were initially conceived as satellite event for young scientists held at the same time as BGRS\SB (Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and Structure \ Systems Biology) conference series, since 1998 taking place biannually. The recent BGRS\SB-2020 event in Novosibirsk was over at the time of the current journal issue publication (https://bgrssb.icgbio.ru/2020/). Other special issues (Supplements) to the BMC journals in the fields of genomics, genetics, bioinformatics, and medical genetics are published at BMC Genomics, BMC Genetics and three other BMC journals. The BGRS\SB-2018 conference highlights were published in 2018 [5-7], and continued the BMC Medical