In recent years, experimental methods in biomedicine have resulted in massive amounts of data. The urgent need for efficient methods of processing and understanding this data has resulted in the rapid development of a new exciting interdisciplinary research area - applying data mining techniques to the analysis of datasets arising in biomedical applications. Application areas include genome studies, cardiology, cancer diagnosis, neurology, etc.

Among the examples of considered datasets one can mention genome sequences, gene expression data, protein structural data, protein-protein interaction data, protein-DNA interaction data, as well as radiological data, and EEG data.