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BioMedical Engineering OnLine BioMedCentral Book review Open Access Review of The Ten Most Wanted Solutions in Protein Bioinformatics, by Anna Tramontano Kay C Wiese* Address: School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University, 15th Floor, Central City Tower, 13450 102nd Ave, Surrey, B.C., V3T 5X3, Canada Email: Kay C Wiese* - wiese@cs.sfu.ca * Corresponding author Published: 03 January 2006 Received: 19 December 2005 Accepted: 03 January 2006 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2006, 5:1 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-5-1 This article is available from: /content/5/1/1 ? 2006 Wiese; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Book details The book reviewed here is different in the sense that it focuses on a single domain, namely protein bioinformat- ics. Ten problems in this domain are identified and dis- Tramontano , Anna : The Ten Most Wanted Solutions in Protein Bioinformatics. Chapman Hall/CRC, Mathematical Biology and Medicine Series, Taylor and Francis Group, ISBN 1-58488-491-6 . 186 pages (Hardcover) cussed in 10 Chapters. The book starts with an introduction to proteins and their structure which is help- ful for the uninitiated. Bioinformatics can be defined as the application of com- putational tools to manage and analyze biological data, typically at the molecular level. The field of Computa- tional Biology aims at the mathematical or computational modeling of biological processes, such as protein folding or protein-protein interaction. Many books that include the title bioinformatics or computational biology (BCB) actually present a mixture of the two fields. It is some- times not possible to separate the two as for a single prob- Chapter 1 discusses the