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Volume 8 Supplement 1

Selected articles from the Twelfth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2014): Systems Biology

Proceedings

Edited by Shuigeng Zhou and Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen

Publication of this supplement has not been supported by sponsorship. Information about the source of funding for publication charges can be found in the individual articles. Articles have undergone the journal's standard review process for supplements. The Supplement Editors declare that they have no competing interests.

The Twelfth Asia Pacific Bioinformatics Conference (APBC 2014). Go to conference site.

Shanghai, China17-19 January 2014

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    Authors: Yu Qian, Søren Besenbacher, Thomas Mailund and Mikkel Heide Schierup
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