This book constitutes the proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Data Integration in the Life Sciences, DILS 2017, held in Luxembourg, in November 2017. The 5 full papers and 5 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 16 submissions. They cover topics such as: life science data modelling; analysing, indexing, and querying life sciences datasets; annotating, matching, and sharing life sciences datasets; privacy and provenance of life sciences datasets.