Editorial (Thematic Issue: Selected Papers from the Annual PACBB Conference 2014: Special Issue)

Abstract

[Excerpt] The field of Bioinformatics has been growing fast in the recent years, prompted by research in several initiatives from distinct biological and biomedical fields. Indeed, we have assisted an exponential increase in the volume and diversity of data, including, among others, next generation sequencing data, omics data, and literature (articles, patents, etc). Systems Biology is a related field of growing interest, which requires the efforts of researchers from interdisciplinary fields, from both biological/biomedical backgrounds, and those related to computer science, data analysis/ mining, modeling, and optimization. (...)