Front Matter -- Novel Theoretical, Computational, and Experimental Methods and Techniques. Quantum Kernels and Quantum Crystallography: Applications in Biochemistry / Lulu Huang, Lou Massa, Jerome Karle -- Getting the Most out of ONIOM: Guidelines and Pitfalls / Fernando R Clemente, Thom Vreven, Michael J Frisch -- Modeling Enzymatic Reactions in Metalloenzymes and Photobiology by Quantum Mechanics (QM) and Quantum Mechanics/Molecular Mechanics (QM/MM) Calculations / Lung Wa Chung, Xin Li, Keiji Morokuma -- From Molecular Electrostatic Potentials to Solvation Models and Ending with Biomolecular Photophysical Processes / Jacopo Tomasi, Chiara Cappelli, Benedetta Mennucci, Roberto Cammi -- The Fast Marching Method for Determining Chemical Reaction Mechanisms in Complex Systems / Yuli Liu, Steven K Burger, Bijoy K Dey, Utpal Sarkar, Marek R Janicki, Paul W Ayers -- Nucleic Acids, Amino Acids, Peptides and Their Interactions. Chemical Origin of Life: How do Five HCN Molecules Combine to form Adenine under Prebiotic and Interstellar Conditions / Debjani Roy, Paul von Ragǔ Schleyer -- Hydrogen Bonding and Proton Transfer in ionized DNA Base Pairs, Amino Acids and Peptides / Luis Rodr̕guez-Santiago, Marc Noguera, Joan Bertran, Mariona Sodupe -- To Nano-Biochemistry: Picture of the Interactions of DNA with Gold / Eugene S Kryachko -- Quantum Mechanical Studies of Noncovalent DNA-Protein Interactions / Lesley R Rutledge, Stacey D Wetmore -- The Virial Field and Transferability in DNA Base-Pairing / Richard F W Bader, Fernando Corťs-Guzm̀n -- An Electron Density-Based Approach to the Origin of Stacking Interactions / Ricardo A Mosquera, Maria J Gonzalez Moa, Laura Esťvez, Marcos Mandado, Ana M Graa -- Polarizabilities of Amino Acids: Additive Models and Calculations / Noureddin El-Bakali Kassimi, Ajit J Thakkar -- Methods in Biocomputational Chemistry: A Lesson from the Amino Acids / Hugo J Boh̤rquez, Constanza C̀rdenas, Cȟrif F Matta, Russell J Boyd, Manuel E Patarroyo -- From Atoms in Amino Acids to the Genetic Code and Protein Stability, and Backwards / Cherif F Matta -- Energy Richness of ATP in Terms of Atomic Energies: A First Step / Cȟrif F Matta, Alya A Arabi -- Reactivity, Enzyme Catalysis, Biochemical Reaction Paths and Mechanisms. Quantum Transition State for Peptide Bond Formation in the Ribosome / Lou Massa, Cherif F Matta, Ada Yonath, Jerome Karle -- Hybrid QM/MM Simulations of Enzyme-Catalyzed DNA Repair Reactions / Denis Bucher, Fanny Masson, J Samuel Arey, Ursula Rothlisberger -- Computational Electronic Structure of Spin-Coupled Diiron-Oxo Proteins / Jorge H Rodriguez -- Accurate Description of Spin States and its Implications for Catalysis / Marcel Swart, Mireia Güell, Miquel Sol -- Quantum Mechanical Approaches to Selenium Biochemistry / Jason K Pearson, Russell J Boyd -- Catalytic Mechanism of Metallo-Lactamases: Insights from Calculations and Experiments / Matteo Dal Peraro, Alejandro J Vila, Paolo Carloni -- Computational Simulation of the Terminal Biogenesis of Sesquiterpenes: The Case of 8-Epiconfertin / José Enrique Barquera-Lozada, Gabriel Cuevas -- Mechanistics of Enzyme Catalysis: From Small to Large Active-Site Models / Jorge Llano, James W Gauld -- From Quantum Biochemistry to Quantum Pharmacology, Therapeutics, and Drug Design. Developing Quantum Topological Molecular Similarity (QTMS) / Paul L A Popelier -- Quantum-Chemical Descriptors in QSAR/QSPR Modeling: Achievements, Perspectives and Trends / Anna V Gubskaya -- Platinum Complexes as Anti-Cancer Drugs: Modeling of Structure, Activation and Function / Konstantinos Gkionis, Mark Hicks, Arturo Robertazzi, J Grant Hill, James A Platts -- Protein Misfolding: The Quantum Biochemical Search for a Solution to Alzheimer's Disease / Donald F Weaver -- Targeting Butyrylcholinesterase for Alzheimer's Disease Therapy / Katherine V Darvesh, Ian R Pottie, Robert S McDonald, Earl Martin, Sultan Darvesh -- Reduction Potentials of Peptide-Bound Copper (II) - Relevance for Alzheimer's Disease and Prion Diseases / Arvi Rauk -- Theoretical Investigation of NSAID Photodegradation Mechanisms / Klefah A K Musa, Leif A Eriksson -- Biochemical Signature of Quantum Indeterminism. Quantum Indeterminism, Mutation, Natural Selection, and the Meaning of Life / David N Stamos -- Molecular Orbitals: Dispositions or Predictive Structures? / Jean-Pierre Llored, Michel Bitbol -- Index.