1. Unsupervised data analysis methods used in qualitative and quantitative metabolomics and metabonomics / Miroslava Cuperlovic-Culf -- 2. Data analysis and interpretation in metabolomics / Jose M. Garcia-Manteiga -- 3. Computational sequence design techniques for DNA microarray technologies / Dan Tulpan, Athos Ghiggi and Roberto Montemanni -- 4. Promoter structures conserved between Homo sapiens, Mus musculus and Drosophila melanogaster / Boris R. Jankovic ... [et al.] -- 5. Recognition of translation initiation sites in Arabidopsis thaliana / Haitham Ashoor ... [et al.] -- 6. The present and the future perspectives of biological network inference / Paola Lecca and Alida Palmisano -- 7. Structural and dynamical heterogeneity in ecological networks / Ferenc Jordán, Carmen Maria Livi and Paola Lecca -- 8. The role of stochastic simulations to extend food web analyses / Marco Scotti -- 9. Process algebra models in biology: the case of phagocytosis / Ozan Kahramanogullari -- 10. Intelligent classifiers fusion for enhancing recognition of genes and protein pattern of hereditary diseases / Parthasarathy Subhasini ... [et al.] -- 11. Connecting the bench with the bedside: translating life science discoveries to disease treatments and vice versa / Yue Wang Webster, Ernst R. Dow and Mathew J. Palakal.