From information to simulation - the motto of the second Basel Computational Biology Conference summarizes some of the key questions of life science research: How can we store, analyze and mine the huge amounts of genomics data? How can we extract the underlying information and relate it to medical or phamacological observations? How can computational simulations further our understanding of complex biological systems?

High profile speakers from pharmaceutical industry, academia, and biotech industry discussed their first-hand experience in this symposium.