Acknowledgment

The editors would like to acknowledge the help of all involved in the collation and review process of the book, without whose support the project could not have been satisfactorily completed. Deep appreciation and gratitude is due to Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, for ongoing sponsorship in terms of generous allocation of Internet, hardware and software resources and other editorial support services for coordination of this year-long project.

Most of the authors of chapters included in this book also served as referees for chapters written by other authors. Additionally, some domain experts also offered the help to conduct the constructive and comprehensive double-blind review process — we required at least three reviewers for each chapter to provide a thorough review of all submitted material. This plays a very significant role in choosing the best materials for the final publication. Our heartfelt thanks go to all those who provided the rigorous reviews. Some of the reviewers must be mentioned as their reviews have clearly set the benchmark. Reviewers who provided the most comprehensive, critical and constructive comments include: Aidong Zhang of the State University of New York; Anna Tramontano of Sapienza University; Charlie Hodgman of University of Nottingham; Clara Pizzuti of ICAR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Daisuke Kihara of Purdue University; Hai Quan Li of Noble Foundation; Hiroshi Mamitsuka of Kyoto University; Jerzy Tiuryn of Warsaw University; Jin Chen of Stanford University; Joaquin Dopazo of Centro de Investigación Príncipe Felipe; Jung-jae Kim of European Bioinformatics Institute; Raymond Wan of Kyoto University; Tatsuya Akutsu of Kyoto University; Tero Aittokallio of University of Turku; Valeria Fionda of Università della Calabria; and Xiaoyue Zhao of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. We also want to acknowledge the great support from many of our colleagues in Data Mining Department in the review process.

We gratefully appreciate our Editorial Advisory Board (EAB) members who have provided us useful suggestions and comments. They also helped recommend suitable leading experts to contribute various key chapters in this book.

Special thanks also go to the publishing team at IGI Global, whose contributions throughout the whole process from inception of the initial idea to final publication have been invaluable. In particular to Julia Mosemann, who continuously prodded via e-mail for keeping the project on schedule and clear our doubts and questions promptly.

Last but not least, Xiao-Li would like to thank his dear daughter Li Qi and wife Liu Futao, for their unfailing support and encouragement during the months it took to give birth to this book. See-Kiong would like to thank Prof. Masaru Tomita, his former advisor from Carnegie Mellon University, who has introduced him to the wonderful world of Bioinformatics.

In closing, we wish to thank all of the authors for their insights and excellent contributions to this book.

Editor,
Xiao-Li Li and See-Kiong Ng
Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore
September 2008