Contains contributions presented at the first Converging Science conference held at the University of Trento, Italy, in December 2004. This title features the papers that cover a range of bioinformatics research, such as foundations of global computing, interdisciplinarity in innovation initiatives, biodiversity, and more.

Scientific Foundation for Global Computing.- Interdisciplinary Innovation in International Initiatives.- A Grand Challenge for Converging Sciences.- Applying Computer Science Research to Biodiversity Informatics: Some Experiences and Lessons.- e-Science and the VL-e Approach.- From Syntax to Semantics in Systems Biology Towards Automated Reasoning Tools.- SYMBIONIC: A European Initiative on the Systems Biology of the Neuronal Cell.- A Biological Approach to Autonomic Communication Systems.- The Twilight of the Despotic Digital Civilization.- A Compositional Approach to the Stochastic Dynamics of Gene Networks.- A Weighted Profile Based Method for Protein-RNA Interacting Residue Prediction.