This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International
Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2013, held
in Charlotte, NC, USA, in May 2013. The 25 revised full papers presented
together with 4 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from
46 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of biomedical databases
and data integration, high-performance bio-computing, biomolecular
imaging, high-throughput sequencing data analysis, bio-ontologies,
molecular evolution, comparative genomics and phylogenomics, molecular
modeling and simulation, pattern discovery and classification,
computational proteomics, population genetics, data mining and
visualization, software tools and applications.