Abstract
The series of articles in PLOS Computational Biology on the development of bioinformatics activities in various countries, e.g., China [1], Australia [2], and Singapore [3], and the formation and successful development of the Polish Bioinformatics Society over the last five years, have inspired us to present a personal perspective on the advances of bioinformatics in Poland.
Highlights
The development of bioinformatics in Poland has built primarily on two scientific disciplines: mathematics and computational sciences, and biological physics including protein crystallography
It is worth mentioning that Hugo Steinhaus, a Polish mathematician, who apparently ‘‘discovered’’ Stefan Banach in 1916 in Cracow, had a prominent role in building the Polish School of Mathematics after World War I, and helped to restore the Polish mathematics community after it was severely crippled during World War II
The first department of biophysics in Poland was organized by David Shugar in 1966 at the Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw (UW), with the support of Leopold Infeld from the Institute of Theoretical Physics UW and Jerzy Pniewski from the Institute of Experimental Physics UW
Summary
The series of articles in PLOS Computational Biology on the development of bioinformatics activities in various countries, e.g., China [1], Australia [2], and Singapore [3], and the formation and successful development of the Polish Bioinformatics Society over the last five years, have inspired us to present a personal perspective on the advances of bioinformatics in Poland
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