This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics, PRIB 2006, held in Hong Kong, China in August 2006 within the scope of ICPR 2006, the 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition.

The 19 revised full papers presented together with a introduction on Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. The papers cover all topics of the creation and maintenance of biological databases, and the discovery of knowledge from life sciences data. The papers are organized in 3 parts - the first on detection of signals, motifs, and gene structure of genomic sequences and gene selection from microarray data. The second part focuses on the prediction of different models of DNA, RNA, and amino acids to predict protein secondary structure, protein subcellular localization, RNA structure, phylogeny, and nucleosome formation and the third part deals with biological databases and images.