title: Guest editors' introduction to the special section on bioinformatics research and applications.
authors.forename: Ion I
authors.initials: II
authors.lastname: Mandoiu
authors.forename: Jianxin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zelikovsky
mesh_terms: D020816:Amino Acid Motifs; D000818:Animals; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000378:metabolism; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D016678:Genome; D006801:Humans; D019656:Loss of Heterozygosity; D008490:Medical Informatics / Q000379:methods / Q000639:trends; D010802:Phylogeny; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D011506:Proteins