Guest Editor＇s Forward

This is the special issue devoted to bioinformatics research in Singapore. Bioinformatics research in Singapore started largely in 1996 when the Bioinformatics Center, National University of Singapore, was formed. With the government＇s efforts to turn Singapore into a powerhouse of biomedical research, the Genome Institute of Singapore and the Bioinformatics Institute of Singapore have been established since 2000. Recently, a bioinformatics research center was also formed in the Nanyang Technological University. Currently, there are a large number of bioinformatics research teams in each of these institutions.