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<div class="">Apologies for cross posting.</div>
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<div class="">Best regards,</div>
<div class="">Neerja Mhaskar</div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><font face="Arial" class=""><font size="4" class=""><b class="">MatBio 2018 Special Issue – Call for papers</b></font><o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">We warmly invite contributions to a special issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms for MatBio 2018.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">This special issue of the Journal of Discrete Algorithms (</span><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-discrete-algorithms" class="">https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-discrete-algorithms</a></span></span>)
will be devoted to the topics included in the Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics Conference held 02 August 2018 at King's College London. Submissions presenting original research within these areas are invited. This issue will also contain full versions
of selected presentations from MatBio 2018:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span></p>
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<li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Sequence
Analysis</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Genomic
Variation and Disease</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Haplotypes
and Population Genomics</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Protein
and RNA Analysis, Structure, and Dynamics</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="" style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"> </span></span><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">Metagenomics</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Cancer Genomics</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Systems Biology</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Phylogenetics</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Biological Networks and Integrative Analysis</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Computational Drug Discovery</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Biological Modelling</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Text Mining and Classification</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Advancing Algorithms and Methods</span></li><li class=""><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="text-indent: -18pt; line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> Big Data in Bioinformatics</span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">** Papers which are pure theory, or theory supported by experimentation, or applied research are all encouraged.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">** Papers must contain previously unpublished material; however, full versions of conference manuscripts may be submitted subject to
citing the conference paper.</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;">** Survey papers which are relevant to the topics of the special issue are welcome and will be considered at the discretion of the editors.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> </span>** Submissions by non-participants will be considered subject to relevance.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> </span>** Submissions should be typically 10-20 pages (shorter or longer papers will be considered at the discretion of the editors).</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> </span>** All submitted papers will be reviewed according to the usual Journal of Discrete Algorithms reviewing standards, with a minimum
of two reviews but usually three.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"> </span>** Instructions to submit the manuscript can be found at:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">The preliminary schedule is:</p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span><b class="">Deadline for submission: 30<sup class="">th</sup> September 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 12.84000015258789px;"><b class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"></span>Notification to authors: 30<sup class="">th</sup> October 2018<o:p class=""></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">We look forward to receiving your submissions!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;">Best regards from the guest editors,</p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">Neerja Mhaskar, W. F. Smyth, Steven Watts<o:p class=""></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-GB" class="" style="line-height: 13.800000190734863px;">King’s College London and McMaster University</span></p>
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