Special collection of recent advances in next-generation bioinformatics, part Ⅱ

摘要

Recent advances in quantitative biology has attested the important roles bioinformatics play in biological sciences as well as the great expansion of the scope of next-generation bioinformatics to all areas of systems biology. From the last issue of Quantitative Biology, we started to publish a special collection of reviews and research articles on next-generation bioinformatics to reflect this trend. The collection is dedicated to the completion of the 5-year center grant (#2012CB316500) on next-generation bioinformatics under the National Basic Research Program of China or the "973 Program". The project aims to advance research on basic bioinformatics methodologies for processing next-generation biological data especially multiple types of sequencing data, and for converting the information buried in the data into quantitative understanding of important biological processes. The papers in the special collection were selected from submissions by the principle investigators and their collaborators of this project, after the standard peer-review procedure of Quantitative Biology. They reflect current progresses from the team and the whole community in several major directions that the Droiect covers.