Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

The Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics (BSB) 2008 was held at Santo Andr´e (S˜ao Paulo), Brazil, August 28–30, 2008. BSB 2008 was the third symposium in the BSB series, although BSB was preceded by the Brazilian Workshop on Bioinformatics (WOB). This previous event had three consecutive editions in 2002 (Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul), 2003 (Maca´e, Rio de Janeiro), and 2004 (Bras´ılia, Distrito Federal). The change from workshop to symposium reflects the increasing quality and interest behind this meeting. For BSB 2008, we had 41 submissions: 32 full papers and 9 extended abstracts, submitted to two tracks: the main track on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, and the track Applications of...