The 7th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (ISBRA’11) will be held at Central South University in Changsha, China on May 27-29, 2011. The ISBRA symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. The deadline for submitting extended abstracts (LNBI proceedings) is February 11, 2011; for short abstracts (oral or poster presentation) the deadline is April 8, 2011. For more details visit the symposium website at http://www.cs.gsu.edu/isbra11/.