Introduction

This Masters Consortium Competition will take place in conjunction with the 11th International Workshop on Computational Systems Biology (WCSB), to be held May 15-16 in Lisbon, Portugal. The WCSB 2014 Masters Consortium Competition will provide an opportunity for undergraduate students to present their ongoing research work in an interdisciplinary workshop to a panel of distinguished experts in the field. This Masters Consortium is intended to bring together Master students within the fields of computational systems biology research, including areas of experimental biology, bioinformatics, biomedical sciences, machine learning, signal processing, mathematics, statistics, and theoretical physics.