This book contains selected and revised papers of the International Symposium on Knowledge Discovery and Emergent Complexity in Bioinformatics (KDECB 2006), held at the University of Ghent, Belgium, May 10, 2006. In February 1943, the Austrian physicist Erwin Schrodi ] nger, one of the founding fathers of quantum mechanics, gave a series of lectures at Trinity College in Dublin titled "What Is Life? The Physical Aspect of the Living Cell and Mind. " In these l- tures Schrodi ] nger stressed the fundamental differencesencountered between observing animate and inanimate matter, and advanced...