1. Foreword

   • Paola Bonizzoni
   • Gianluca Della Vedova
   • Tao Jiang

   EditorialNotes Pages: 1 - 1

2. An algorithm for finding conserved secondary structure motifs in unaligned RNA sequences

   • Giulio Pavesi
   • Giancarlo Mauri
   • Graziano Pesole

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2 - 12

3. Outlier analysis for gene expression data

   • Chao Yan
   • Guo-Liang Chen
   • Yi-Fei Shen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 21

4. Verbumculus and the discovery of unusual words

   • Alberto Apostolico
   • Fang-Cheng Gong
   • Stefano Lonardi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 22 - 41

5. The complexity of checking consistency of pedigree information and related problems

   • Luca Aceto
   • Jens A. Hansen
   • John Knudsen

   OriginalPaper Pages: 42 - 59

6. Integer programming models for computational biology problems

   • Giuseppe Lancia

   OriginalPaper Pages: 60 - 77

7. Encoding of primary structures of biological macromolecules within a data mining perspective

   • Mondher Maddouri
   • Mourad Elloumi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 78 - 88

8. Membrane automata with priorities

   • Luděk Cienciala
   • Lucie Ciencialová

   OriginalPaper Pages: 89 - 97

9. Trends in computing with DNA

   • Nataša Jonoska

   OriginalPaper Pages: 98 - 113