With the increasing importance of bioinformatics in agriculture, molecular medicine, microbial genome applications, etc. the research in this field has gained momentum than ever before. Bioinformatics, also known as computational biology, deals with interpreting biological data by using computer science and information technology. Of lately, research in bioinformatics has produced vast amounts of data and will continue to generate proteomic, genomic, etc. data. To analyze and gain deep insights into such biological data necessitates making sense of the information by inferring the data. For instance, gene classification, protein structure prediction, clustering of gene expression data, protein-protein interactions, etc. These processes, in turn, increases the need for interaction between bioinformatics and data mining. read...