SynopsisThis book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2006, held in Trento, Italy, in October 2006. The 22 fully revised papers presented together with 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 68 submissions. The papers present a variety of techniques from computer sciences, such as language design, concurrency theory, software engineering, and formal methods., The CMSB (Computational Methods in Systems Biology) conference series was established in 2003 to help catalyze the convergence of modellers, physicists, mathematicians,andtheoreticalcomputerscientistsfrom'eldssuchaslanguage design,concurrencytheory,programveri'cation,andmolecularbiologists,phy- cians, and neuroscientists interested in a systems-level understanding of cellular physiology and pathology. The community of scientists becoming interested in this new ?eld is growing rapidly as witnessed by the increasing number of submissions. This year we received 68 papers of which we accepted 22 for publication in this volume. Luca Cardelli and David Harel gave two invited talks at the conference sh- ing the computer science perspective in the emerging ?eld of dynamical m- elling and simulation of biological systems. Orkun Soyer gave two invited talks on the systems biology perspective. Finally,weorganizedapostersessiontofavordiscussionandcross-fertilization ofdi'erent'eldsaswefeelitessentialtomakinginterdisciplinaryresearchgrow. July 2006 Corrado Priami Organization Programme Committee of CMSB 2006 Charles Au'ray, CNRS (France) Mu'y Calder, University of Glasgow (UK) Luca Cardelli, Microsoft Research Cambridge (UK) Diego Di Bernardo, Telethon Institute of Genetics and Medicine (Italy) David Harel, Weizmann Institute (Israel) Monika Heiner, University of Cottbus (Germany) Ela Hunt, University of Zurich (Switzerland) Franois Kepes, CNRS / Epigenomics Program, Evry (France) Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Birmingham (UK) Cosimo Laneve, University of Bologna (Italy) Eduardo Mendoza, LMU (Germany) and University of the Philippines-Diliman (Philippines) Bud Mishra, New York University (USA) Satoru Miyano, University of Tokyo (Japan) Christos Ouzounis, European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) Gordon Plotkin, University of Edinburgh (UK) Corrado Priami, Chair, The Microsoft Research - University of Trento Centre for Computational and Systems Biology, Italy Alessandro Quattrone, University of Florence (Italy)
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