Introductory note for BGRS\SB-2014 special issue

The international conference series Bioinformatics of Genome Regulation and StructurenSystems Biology, known as \BGRSnSB" or just \BGRS", is a traditional biennial event that gets together biologists, computer scientists, mathematicians and biochemists working in an interdisciplinary ̄eld of systems biology biotechnology and genetics. Initiated by Prof. Nikolay A. Kolchanov in 1998, BGRSnSB has been held every two years in Novosibirsk, Russia, organized by the Institute of Cytology and Genetics, Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The ninth conference BGRSnSB-2014 held 23–28 June 2014 (http://conf.nsc.ru/BGRSSB2014) was associated with the multi-conference \Bioinformatics and System Biology" and the traditional Young Scientists' School \Systems Biology and Bioinformatics" (SBB2014). The BGRSnSB-2014 event hosted more than 400 participants from more than 20 countries, con ̄rming the conference as largest international system biology meeting series in Russia and in Northern Asia. Next year, the jubilee tenth BGRS2016 conference will be held in summer 2016, again in Novosibirsk Academgorodok. BGRS series has long traditions of special post-conference issue publications in the Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (JBCB), starting from 2006. Selected materials presented at the multi-conference were recommended for fulltext publications in several special journal issues, besides JBCB. BioMed Central journals publishing BGRS-2014 supplements include BMC Genomics, BMC Syst Biol, BMC Evol Biol, and BMC Genetics. A special issue on bioinformatics using BGRSnSB-2014 presentations was printed in 2014 in \Vavilov Journal of Genetics and Breeding" in Russian (published in English as \Russian Journal of Genetics: Applied Research"). Additionally, some separate papers related to the conference materials have been submitted for publications in JBSD (Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics) and JIB (Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics). Due to the multi-disciplinary nature of the conference, the organizing committees decided to diversify post-conference publications in di®erent journals covering wider bioinformatics areas. This JBCB special issue contains 9 papers based on selected presentations at the conference, focusing mainly on algorithmic problems in bioinformatics. The papers were chosen from as much as twice more submissions for this journal. We believe that Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Vol. 13, No. 1 (2015) 1502001 (3 pages) #.c Imperial College Press DOI: 10.1142/S0219720015020011

[1]  Dagmara P. Furman,et al.  A model study of the morphogenesis of D. melanogaster mechanoreceptors: The central regulatory circuit , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[2]  Ralf Hofestädt,et al.  Identifying adverse drug reactions and drug-induced diseases using network-based drug mapping , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[3]  Nikolay A. Kolchanov,et al.  How Multiple Auxin Responsive Elements May Interact in plant promoters: a Reverse Problem solution , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[4]  Ulyana S. Zubairova,et al.  A computational model of the effect of symplastic growth on cell mechanics in a linear leaf blade , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[5]  Ralf Hofestädt,et al.  Computational Construction of Specialized Biological Networks , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[6]  Ralf Hofestädt,et al.  Subcellular Localization Charts: a New Visual Methodology for the Semi-Automatic Localization of protein-Related Data Sets , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[7]  Vitali A. Likhoshvai,et al.  On the Chaos in gene Networks , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[8]  Giancarlo Mauri,et al.  Sensitivity Analysis for Studying the Relation between biochemical reactions and metabolic phenotypes , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[9]  Eduard Fomin,et al.  Reconstruction of sequence from its circular partial sums for cyclopeptide sequencing problem , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[10]  Victor G. Levitsky,et al.  From binding motifs in Chip-seq Data to Improved Models of transcription factor binding Sites , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[11]  Louxin Zhang,et al.  Motif Discovery with Data Mining in 3D protein Structure Databases: Discovery, Validation and Prediction of the U-Shape zinc binding ("Huf-zinc") Motif , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[12]  Sergey Matvienko,et al.  Interaction sorting method for molecular dynamics on multi-core SIMD CPU architecture , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[13]  Mikhail P. Ponomarenko,et al.  Sequence-based prediction of transcription upregulation by auxin in plants , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[14]  Seyed Shahriar Arab,et al.  Putracer: a Novel Method for Identification of continuous-Domains in Multi-Domain proteins , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[15]  Vitali A. Likhoshvai,et al.  Alternative splicing can lead to chaos , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[16]  Edgar Wingender,et al.  Criteria for an updated Classification of Human transcription factor DNA-binding Domains , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[17]  Srinivas Aluru,et al.  Large-Scale metagenomic sequence Clustering on Map-Reduce Clusters , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[18]  Vladimir A. Ivanisenko,et al.  Permanent proteins in the urine of healthy humans during the Mars-500 experiment , 2015, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..

[19]  Michael Seifert,et al.  Dispom: a Discriminative de-novo Motif Discovery Tool Based on the Jstacs Library , 2013, J. Bioinform. Comput. Biol..