Progress in and Opportunities for Applying Information Theory to Computational Biology and Bioinformatics.

This editorial is intended to provide a brief history of the application of Information Theory to the fields of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; to succinctly summarize the current state of associated research, and open challenges; and to describe the scope of the invited content for this Special Issue of the journal Entropy with the theme of "Information Theory in Computational Biology" [...].