Computational Methods for Identification and Modelling of Complex Biological Systems

3 pages,-- Editorial.-- This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly citedMathematical and computational models are key tools for understanding biological phenomena. In the last decades, scientific and technological advances have facilitated their evergrowing adoption in biologically oriented research. The strongly interdisciplinary character of these areas, in which biologistswork alongwith researchers fromphysical sciences, engineering, and medicine, fosters the cross-fertilization between scientific fields. However, the large degree of structural and parametric uncertainty typically associated with biological processesmakes it nontrivial to analyze them using techniques imported from fields in which these issues are less prevalent. Thus, there is a need for new methodological developments that fill this gap. The present special issue addresses this need by providing an overview of current open problems and presenting recent results regarding mathematical inference and modelling of biological systemsPeer reviewe