Ante Graovac

Biserka Pokric

Drazen Vikic-Topic

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FOREWORDThe MATH/CHEM/COMP 2004 Dubrovnik Interna-tional Course & Conference (MCC 2004) on the Inter-faces among Mathematics, Chemistry and Computer Sci-ences was held from June 21–26, 2004, in Dubrovnik,Croatia, under the joint auspices of the Inter-UniversityCentre, Dubrovnik, Ru|er Bo{kovi} Institute, Zagreb,Universities of Zagreb & Split, International Society forMathematical Chemistry, and International Society forTheoretical Chemical Physics. MCC 2004 was the nine-teenth in a series of annual meetings that we started in1986, and it attracted 100 participants from 20 countries,a large number of them students and young researchers.The MCC meetings are traditionally focused on dis-cussions about the interplay among mathematics, chem-istry and computer sciences, and this continues. However,to keep pace with »hot« subjects and practical needs, weincorporate into our meetings special sessions that varyfrom year to year. Two such sessions were offered atMCC 2004: Bioinformatics (organized by Istvan Simonand Peter Stadler) and Chemoinformatics and Drug Dis-covery (organized by Darko Butina).From the very beginning, due care has taken to pub-lish the results presented in Dubrovnik. As a result,twenty-seven MCC Proceedings have been printed up tonow in various distinguished scientific journals. Thefirst part of the results presented at MCC 2004 are pub-lished in this special and refereed issue of CroaticaChemica Acta, and the rest will appear in No. 4 (2005)of the same journal. All these papers are dedicated to Dr.Edward C. Kirby in happy celebration of his 70th birth-day. Some of the papers reported at the MCC 2004 Ses-sion on Bioinformatics were edited by Ante Graovac andPeter Stadler and are published as Vol. 124, No. 4 (2005)of the eminent journal Theory in Biosciences.The organization of MCC 2004 was in the first placepossible owing to the help of the Inter-University Centrein Dubrovnik, Ru|er Bo{kovi} Institute Zagreb, Univer-sity of Zagreb, and University of Split. The financialsupport of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sportsof the Republic of Croatia, Croatian Academy of Sci-ences and Arts, and PLIVA d.d. (Zagreb) is gratefullyacknowledged. Special thanks for partial financial sup-port go to SMS (Split), Profil (Zagreb), and WolframResearch-Systemcom (Zagreb). Many thanks are alsodue to the CCA Editor-in-Chief, Academician NenadTrinajsti}, Mrs. Nada Trajkov, and Dr. Miro Baji} fortheir patience and understanding as well as to the contri-butors and referees for their assistance.Ante GraovacBiserka Pokri}Dra`en Viki}-Topi}CROATICA CHEMICA ACTACCACAA 78 (2) XXI (2005)

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