A path to knowledge : from data to complex systems models of cancer / Sylvia Nagl -- Theory of cancer robustness / Hiroaki Kitano -- Developing an integrated informatics platform for cancer research / Richard Begent -- Mathematical models of cancer / Manish Patel and Sylvia Nagl -- Some mathematical modelling challenges and approaches in cancer / Philip Maini and Robert A. Gatenby -- Computer simulation of tumour response to therapy / Georgios S. Stamatakos and Nikolaos Uzunoglu -- Structural bioinformatics in cancer / Stephen Neidle -- The mouse tumour biology database : an online resource for mouse models of human cancer / Carol J. Bult [and others] -- Bioinformatics approaches to integrate cancer models and human cancer research / Cheryl L. Marks and Sue Dubman -- The FAPESP/LICR human cancer genome project : perspectives on integration / Ricardo Brentani [and others]. Today's science, tomorrow's patient : the pivotal role of tissue, clinical data and informatics in modern drug development / Kirstine Knox, Amanda Taylor and David J. Kerr -- Software design ethics for biomedicine / Don Gotterbarn and Simon Rogerson -- Ethical issues of electronic patient data and informatics in clinical trial settings / Dipak Kalra and David Ingram -- Pharmacogenomics and cancer : ethical, legal and social issues / Mary Anderlik Majumder and Mark Rothstein.

"The development and application of bioinformatics tools to basic and translational cancer research is, in fact, a rapidly expanding field that deserves a timely review. Therefore, a publication of this type is needed. The editors have done an excellent job in recruiting well-established scientists to author the various chapters of the book.