This book offers an essential introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of association analysis, including data pre-processing, data mining methods/algorithms, and tools that are widely applied for computational biology. It covers significant recent advances in the field, both foundational and application-oriented, helping readers understand the basic principles and emerging techniques used to discover interesting association patterns in diverse and heterogeneous biology data, such as structure-function correlations, and complex networks with gene/protein regulation.

Qingfeng Chen received his BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics from Guangxi Normal University, China, in 1995 and 1998, respectively, and his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Technology Sydney in September 2004. He is currently a Professor at Guangxi University, China and an honorary research fellow at La Trobe University, Australia. He has published many papers in top venues for machine learning and artificial intelligence, serves as an associate editor for top journals including Complexity & Intelligent systems, and has co-chaired several international conferences.