The LNCS journal Transactions on Computational Systems Biology is devoted to inter- and
multidisciplinary research in the fields of computer science and life sciences and supports a
paradigmatic shift in the techniques from computer and information science to cope with the new
challenges arising from the systems oriented point of view of biological phenomena. This
special issue on Computational Models for Cell Processes is based on a workshop with the same
name that took place in Turku Finland on May 27 2008. The accepted papers which have passed
through a separate peer-review process span an interesting mix of approaches to systems
biology ranging from quantitative to qualitative techniques from continuous to discrete
mathematics from deterministic to stochastic methods and from computational models for
biology to computing paradigms inspired by biology. Also included in this issue are three
regular submissions dealing with the relationship between ODEs and stochastic concurrent
constraint programming with the equilibrium points of genetic regulatory networks and with
probability models describing how epigenetic context affects gene expression and organismal
development.
