Editorial

摘要

In the last decade, there was an explosion in the amount of biological data, since detailed information concerning the DNA, RNA and protein biomolecules had been produced through modern and high throughput experimental systems. So, the scientific community had to decide between sinking or swimming as the tidal wave of data was approaching. The existing information concerns the biomolecular sequences (primary structure), basic characteristics of their 3D structure (secondary structure), their 3D structure, their function, the interactions between them, their relationships and their dependencies, their regulation and expression, their location, their thermodynamic characteristics, etc. As it is obvious, acquiring, storing and handling these data is not enough.