A special issue, vol. 3(5), October, 2009, on Guided Self-organisation in HFSP Journal (Human Frontiers Science Program) Article "Stigmergic gene transfer and emergence of universal coding", published in HFSP Journal 3(5), 2009, has been selected for the November 15, 2009 issue of Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, published by the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Physics The Second International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2009), August 18-20, 2009, Leipzig, Germany The First International Workshop on Guided Self-Organisation (GSO-2008), November 24-27, 2008, Sydney, Australia Themed session at  ALife XI, the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (August 5-8, 2008, Winchester, UK),  on  Information in Complex Systems and Artificial Life Special session at  AHS-2008, the NASA/ESA Conference on Adaptive Hardware and Systems (June 22-25, 2008, Noordwijk, The Netherlands),  on  Evolutionary and Self-Organizing Sensors, Actuators and Processing Hardware (ESOSAPH) M. Prokopenko (ed.), Advances in Applied Self-organizing Systems, Springer-Verlag, London, UK, 2007.