Proteins 70174 Stuttgart The refereed papers begin with the 24th ER Conference The refereed papers begin with a paper entitled 'A Resource Limited Artificial Immune System for Data Analysis' wahrend die Individualprognose eher die Feinregulierung be­ deutet It is hoped that this volume will provide a source from which newcomers as well as experienced scient ists may becom& more familiar with recent developments and future trends in some of the important areas of protein research The goal of the organizers of this first symposium was to provide a forum for discussion and inter action among scientists whose interests span the broad spectrum of protein structure and function research