This proceedings presents recent practical applications of Computational Biology and
Bioinformatics. It contains the proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Practical
Applications of Computational Biology & Bioinformatics held at University of Salamanca Spain
at June 3rd-5th 2015. The International Conference on Practical Applications of Computational
Biology & Bioinformatics (PACBB) is an annual international meeting dedicated to emerging and
challenging applied research in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. Biological and
biomedical research are increasingly driven by experimental techniques that challenge our
ability to analyse process and extract meaningful knowledge from the underlying data. The
impressive capabilities of next generation sequencing technologies together with novel and
ever evolving distinct types of omics data technologies have put an increasingly complex set
of challenges for the growing fields of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology. The analysis
of the datasets produced and their integration call for new algorithms and approaches from
fields such as Databases Statistics Data Mining Machine Learning Optimization Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence. Clearly Biology is more and more a science of information
requiring tools from the computational sciences.
