We are very grateful to the many colleagues who offered their services in preparing and publishing this edited book. In particular, we would like to thank the members of the Program Committee of the BIOCOMP’14 and BIOCOMP’13 annual international conferences (their names appear at http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp14/ws/conferences/biocomp14/committee and http://www.worldacademyofscience.org/worldcomp13/ws/conferences/biocomp13/committee, respectively). We would also like to thank the members of the Steering Committee of Federated Congress, WORLDCOMP 2014 (http://www.world-academy-of-science.org/) and the referees that were designated by them. The American Council on Science and Education (ACSE; http://www.americancse.org/about) provided a computer and a web server for managing the evaluations of the submitted chapters. We would like to extend our appreciation to Steve Elliot (executive editor at Elsevier) and Amy Invernizzi (editorial project manager at Elsevier) for the outstanding professional service that they provided to us.

Quoc-Nam Tran, PhD, Senior Editor, Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology—Algorithms and Software Tools, Professor of Computer Science and Department Chair, University of South, Dakota, Vermilion, SD, USA

Hamid R. Arabnia, PhD, Coeditor, Emerging Trends in Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology—Algorithms and Software Tools, Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Trends in Computer Science and Applied Computing, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA