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Purpose of This Book: This textbook on collaborative research in bioinformatics

and systems biology, which are key elements of modern biology and health

research, highlights and provides access to many of the methods, environments,

results and resources involved, including integral laboratory data generation and

experimentation and clinical activities. Collaborative projects embody a research

paradigm that connects many of the top scientists, institutions, their resources and

research across Europe and the world, resulting in world-class contributions to bioinformatics and systems biology.

Central Themes: A number of themes are expressed and described, which guided

the selection of material and its presentation:

• This book concentrates on collaborative research projects which have a significant computational biology component. A chapter with a title such as “ Cancer ”

therefore covers the area in this restricted context. Moreover, most large-scale

collaborative projects in Europe are funded by the European Commission. These

projects often unify the best laboratories in Europe, which in turn are often

themselves linked to worldwide programmes. Therefore, the research tends to

accurately reflect the most up-to-date and best state-of-the-art research, which

usually has a computational component.

• Computational approaches are a key part of much of modern life sciences

research. This book aims at making researchers aware of the central importance

of bioinformatics and systems biology in modern life sciences research and the

wide range of publicly available resources generated by collaborative research

programmes