=================================================================== Call for Papers - WABI 2016 - Submission deadline May 2, 2016 16th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics August 22-24, 2016. Aarhus, Denmark http://conferences.au.dk/algo16/wabi =================================================================== Scope ----- 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. Topics ------ Original research papers (including significant work-in-progress) or state-of-the-art surveys are solicited in all aspects of algorithms in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology - including, but not limited to: * Exact and approximate algorithms for sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment and assembly, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression, molecular pathways and networks, proteomics, functional and comparative genomics, and drug design. * Methods, software, and data repositories for development and testing of such algorithms and their underlying models, as well as high-performance computing approaches to hard learning and optimization problems. * Novel approaches to analyzing and modeling next-generation sequence data, including sequence assembly, population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics and small RNA sequencing. Important Dates --------------- Submission deadline: May 2, 2016 Author notification: May 30, 2016 Final version due: June 13, 2016 Workshop: August 22-24, 2016 Keynote Speaker --------------- Kiyoshi Asai, University of Tokyo, Japan. Details on submitting manuscripts --------------------------------- See http://conferences.au.dk/algo16/wabi under 'Paper Submission' for details. Proceedings ----------- Proceedings will be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics, where accepted papers will be allotted 12 pages. Selected papers will also be invited for an extended publication in a thematic series in Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB). Program Committee ----------------- Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University Timothy L. Bailey, University of Queensland Jan Baumbach, University of Southern Denmark Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal Paola Bonizzoni, Universita di Milano-Bicocca Alessandra Carbone, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie Rita Casadio, University of Bologna Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal Martin Frith (co-chair), AIST Anna Gambin, Warsaw University Raffaele Giancarlo, Dipartimento di Matematica Universita di Palermo Michiaki Hamada, Waseda University Thomas Hamelryck, University of Copenhagen Fereydoun Hormozdiari, University of California Davis Katharina Huber, University of East Anglila Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University Hisanori Kiryu, The University of Tokyo Gregory Kucherov, University Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee Timo Lassmann, Telethon Kids Institute Ming Li, University of Waterloo Zsuzsanna Liptak, University of Verona Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside Gerton Lunter, University of Oxford Thomas Mailund, Aarhus University Paul Medvedev, Pennsylvania State University Daniel Merkle, University of Southern Denmark Istvan Miklos, Rnyi Institute, Budapest Bernard Moret, EPFL Burkhard Morgenstern, University of Goettingen Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia Veli Mäkinen, University of Helsinki Luay Nakhleh, Rice University William Noble, University of Washington Christian Nørgaard Storm Pedersen (co-chair), Aarhus University Nadia Pisanti, Universita di Pisa Mihai Pop, University of Maryland Teresa Przytycka, NIH Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Kengo Sato, Keio University Michael Schatz, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Russell Schwartz, Carnegie Mellon University Kana Shimizu, AIST Anish Man Singh Shrestha, University of Tokyo Peter F. Stadler, Leipzig University Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University Krister Swenson, Universite de Montpellier Hélène Touzet, University of Lille Lusheng Wang, City University of Hong Kong Siu Ming Yiu, The University of Hong Kong Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev