Path to quantum life information science

As was explained in the Preface, the center QBIC was founded to seriously attempt a mutual interaction between bio-informatics and quantum information, thereby creating a new field that can be called quantum bio-informatics. The conference of the QBIC-2006 proceeding opens the 5 year program (that may be 8) for this quantum bio--informatics. This is an ambitious program whose goal is to put the mathematics and the physics of quantum mechanics, the recent developments of quantum information and quantum computer, the powerful tools of white noise analysis and classical probability to the service of biology. We will discuss here what we consider the characteristic of biological systems and the path to the quantum bio-informatics.