Evidence is accumulating that the first genuine antiaging interventions (e.g., approved pharmaceutical, nutriceutical, and stem-cell-based therapies) will become available within the next decades. Model organism data, next-generation sequencing, and further advances call for sophisticated large-scale data analysis. To present the state-of-the art and to talk about upcoming tasks and challenges in the bioinformatics and systems biology of aging-related data, a workshop on Bioinformatics in Ageing Research convened leading experts from Europe on May 4–5, 2010, in Rostock/Warnemünde. This meeting report summarizes talks and gives some outlook into future developments.
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