Special issue dedicated to the first Q-bio conference on cellular information processing
William S. Hlavacek, Yi Jiang, Michael E. Wall, Ilya M. Nemenman · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 2008
The original idea of this special issue was to document a representative selection of the work presented at the conference in one place and to provide a snapshot of the q-bio field. However, we must acknowledge that this idea was only partially realized. The papers in this special issue are biased toward the theoretical and computational end of the q-bio spectrum, even though they are contributed by researchers dedicated to the q-bio ideal of complete stories and include contributions from research groups that are well known for their experimental work. Like the conference itself, this special issue was something of an experiment, as papers generally do not accompany presentations at biological meetings to the same extent as in other fields, such as computer science. Thus, the contributors of the papers collected here are truly pioneers.