Bioinformatics research and development

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This volume includes papers presented at the second Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD) conference held in Vienna from July 7–9, 2008. Covering a wide range of bioinformatics topics, this year’s focus included sequence analysis and alignment, pathways, networks, systems biology, protein and RNA structure and function, gene expression/regulation and microarrays, databases, data integration, machine learning, and data analysis. The Program Committee selected 30 out of 61 submitted contributions based on recommendations from three to five reviews for each paper. The conference featured three invited talks from experienced researchers, offering attendees valuable insights into the field of bioinformatics. Abstracts and additional information about these talks are available in the conference program and on the conference website. The volume also includes selected contributions from two workshops held concurrently with the main conference: the Workshop on Dynamical Aspects of Perturbation, Intervention, and Transition in Biological Systems (PETRIN 2008) and the Workshop on Algorithms in Molecular Biology (ALBIO 2008). Poster presentations from the BIRD conference are published in companion proceedings by Trauner Verlag, Linz.