NIPS workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology.

The article focuses on several peer-reviewed papers based on the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) Workshop on New Problems and Methods in Computational Biology held in Whistler, British Columbia on December 8, 2006, published in the periodical "BMC Bioinformatics." The conference aims to discuss problems and machine learning methods in computational biology. Each paper was reviewed in relation to its contribution to biology and novelty of machine learning methods used.