Italian FIRB Project on  Parallel Algorithms and Numerical Nonlinear Optimization  Related links National research project "Numerical Analysis: Methods and Mathematical Software" www.unife.it/AnNum97 Italian FIRB project "Statistical Learning: Theory, Algoritms, Applications" slipguru.disi.unige.it/ASTA SCCB2005 - First international School in Computational Cell Biology: The Role of Stochasticity in the Modelling and Simulation of Biological Processes Urbino (Italy), November 7-9, 2005, http://dm.unife.it/SCCB2005. The school was organized with the contribution of the PN2O research project. SCCB2006 - Second international School in Computational Cell Biology: Computational Methods in Multiscale Processes for Protein Interaction Modena (Italy), September 4-6, 2006, http://dm.unife.it/SCCB2006. The school was organized with the contribution of the PN2O research project.