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WABI 2018 - 18th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics <br>
Helsinki, 20-22 August 2018<br>
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<h3 class="western">WABI 2018 call for papers</h3>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://algo2018.hiit.fi/wabi/">http://algo2018.hiit.fi/wabi/</a>
<h4 class="western">Scope</h4>
<p>All research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational
biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete
algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important
problems in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models,
that are computationally efficient, and that have been implemented
and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to
present recent research results, including significant
work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future
research.</p>
<h4 class="western">Paper Submission</h4>
<p>Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the LIPIcs style and
must not exceed 12 pages including references. Each paper must
contain a succinct statement of the issues and of their
motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation
of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers.
All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair
submission system, at:</p>
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<p><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2018"><span
style="text-decoration: none">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2018</span></a></p>
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<p>You need to register on the EasyChair web site before submitting.
A standard PDF file must be received by midnight on May 4, 2018
(time zone of your choice) in order for your submission to be
considered. Simultaneous submission to another conference with
published proceedings is not permitted, but simultaneous
submission to a journal is allowed, provided that the authors
notify the program chairs; if published in a journal, such a
contribution will be published as a short abstract in the WABI
proceedings. Depositing in arxiv.org or biorxiv.org is allowed.</p>
<p>Note, by submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case
of acceptance at least one of the authors must register at <a
href="http://algo2018.hiit.fi/">ALGO 2018</a> (<a
class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://algo2018.hiit.fi/">http://algo2018.hiit.fi/</a>)
or WABI 2018, attend the conference, and present the paper.</p>
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<h4 class="western">Proceedings</h4>
<p>Accepted papers will be published in a proceedings in the LIPIcs
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics.<br>
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<h4 class="western">Important Dates</h4>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><span style="text-decoration:
none"><b>Paper submission deadline: May </b></span><span
style="text-decoration: none"><b>4</b></span><span
style="text-decoration: none"><b>, 201</b></span><span
style="text-decoration: none"><b>8</b></span><span
style="text-decoration: none"> </span> </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Notification of paper acceptance:
June 8, 2018 </p>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Final version of accepted paper: <b>June
1</b><b>3</b><b>, 201</b><b>8</b> </p>
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<p>WABI 2018 workshop: August 20-22, 2018</p>
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<li>ALGO 2018 conference: 20-24 August 2018</li>
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<p><b>Programme committee</b></p>
<ul>
<li><span lang="EN-GB"><span lang="EN-GB">Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto
University</span> </span> <br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Lars Arvestad, Stockholm University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a
Montreal</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Paola Bonizzoni, Università di Milano-Bicocca</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Alessandra Carbone, Université Pierre et
Marie Curie</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Benny Chor, Tel-Aviv Univ</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Daniel Doerr, Bielefeld University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Liliana Florea, Johns Hopkins University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Anna Gambin, Institute of Informatics, Warsaw
University</span><br>
<span style="mso-ansi-language:FI">Niina Haiminen, IBM</span><br>
<span style="mso-ansi-language:FI">Iman Hajirasouliha, Cornell
University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and
Reykjavik University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Gunnar W. Klau, Heinrich Heine University
Düsseldorf</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Harri Lähdesmäki, Aalto University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Timo Lassmann, Telethon Kids</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Yu Lin, Australian National University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Bernard Moret, EPFL</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Burkhard Morgenstern, University of
Goettingen</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Laxmi Parida (co-chair), IBM T. J. Watson
Research Center</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Robert Patro, Stony Brook</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen, Aarhus
University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Solon Pissis, King's College London</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Cinzia Pizzi, Univ Padova</span><br>
<span style="mso-ansi-language:SV" lang="SV">Alex Pothen, Purdue
Univ</span><br>
<span style="mso-ansi-language:SV" lang="SV">Teresa Przytycka,
NIH</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Knut Reinert, FU Berlin</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Eric Rivals, CNRS & Univ Montpellier</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Simona Rombo, Univ Palermo</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Grenoble
Rhône-Alpes and Univ de Lyon 1</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Yasubumi Sakakibara, Keio University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Mikaël Salson, Université Lille 1</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Marcel Schulz, Saarland University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Kana Shimizu, Waseda University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Rahul Siddharthan, Institute of Mathematical
Sciences, Chennai</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Alexandros Stamatakis, Heidelberg Instit. for
Theoretical Studies</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Hélène Touzet, University of Lille and INRIA</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Esko Ukkonen (co-chair), University of
Helsinki</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Tandy Warnow, <span style="font-family:
"Liberation
Serif",serif;mso-bidi-font-family:FreeSans">University
of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign</span></span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Yufeng Wu, Univ Connecticut</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Louxin Zhang, National University of
Singapore</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Shaojie Zhang, University of Central Florida</span><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of
the Negev</span><br>
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<p><b>Keynote speaker</b></p>
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<li>Mihai Pop</li>
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<p><b>Previous edition</b></p>
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<li>WABI 2017, Boston, MA<br>
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