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</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">20th Workshop on Algorithms in BIoinformatics </span></p>
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style="line-height:1.2;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Pisa (Italy) September 7-9 2020</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Scope</span></h2>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI is an international Conference covering research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:#ffffff;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">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 provide evidence of their potential usefulness in practice, preferably by testing on appropriately chosen simulated or real datasets.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paper Submission</span></h2>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using </span><a
href="https://submission.dagstuhl.de/styles/download-tag/lipics/v2019.1/authors/zip"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">the LIPIcs style</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> and must not exceed 15 pages excluding references. For details please see the </span><a
href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">information for authors</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. 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:</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><a
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2020"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi20</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">20</span></p>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">For scientific information, please contact one of the WABI program committee co-chairs, Nadia Pisanti (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:pisanti@di.unipi.it">pisanti@di.unipi.it</a>) or Carl Kingsford (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:carlk@cs.cmu.edu">carlk@cs.cmu.edu</a>). For organizational information, please refer to the </span><a
href="http://algo2020.di.unipi.it"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">ALGO 2020</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> website.</span></p>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">You will need to register on the EasyChair web site before submitting. A standard .pdf file must be received by </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">May 4, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (time zone of your choice) in order for your submission to be considered. Re-submission of already submitted papers will be possible until </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">May 6, 2020</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (time zone of your choice). 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 </span><a
href="http://arxiv.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">arxiv.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> or </span><a
href="http://biorxiv.org/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">biorxiv.org</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> is allowed.</span></p>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register at ALGO 2020 or WABI 2020, attend the conference, and present the paper.</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:2pt;"><span style="font-size:16pt;font-family:Arial;color:#000000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Proceedings</span></h2>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Accepted papers will be published in WABI proceedings in the LIPIcs </span><a
href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">. Selected papers will be invited for an extended publication in a thematic series in </span><a
href="http://almob.biomedcentral.com/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB)</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">.</span></p>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Previous proceedings of WABI appeared in LNCS/LNBI volumes </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540425168"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">2149</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://cs.au.dk/~gerth/algo2001/wabi2001/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2001, Aarhus</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540442110"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">2452</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.dis.uniroma1.it/algo02/wabi02/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2002, Rome</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540200765"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">2812</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.conferences.hu/algo2003/WABI-Call-for-papers.htm"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2003, Budapest</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540230182"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">3240</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.ii.uib.no/algo2004/wabi2004/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2004, Bergen</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540290087"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">3692</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.cs.upc.edu/~algo05/?cmd=wabi2005"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2005, Mallorca</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540395836"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">4175</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="https://algo06.inf.ethz.ch/wabi"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2006, Zurich</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540741251"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">4645</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.wabi07.org/conference/index.htm"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2007, Philadelphia</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783540873600"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5251</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">(</span><a
href="http://algo2008.org/doku.php/wabi"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2008, Karlsruhe</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642042409"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">5724</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.andysautosport.com/learning_center/industry_news/wabi_2009_--_conference_for_algorithms_in_bioinformatics/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2009, Philadelphia</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642152931"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">6293</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://intranet.csc.liv.ac.uk/research/other/algo2010wabi/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2010, Liverpool</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642230370"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">6833</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://pbil.univ-lyon1.fr/members/sagot/htdocs/wabi2011/wabi2011.html"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2011, Saarbrücken</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642331213"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">7534</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://algo12.fri.uni-lj.si/?file=wabi"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2012, Ljubljana</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783642404528"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">8126</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://algo2013.inria.fr/wabi.shtml"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2013, Sophia Antipolis</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662447529"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">8701</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://algo2014.ii.uni.wroc.pl/wabi/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2014, Wroclaw</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783662482209"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">9289</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://wabi.gatech.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2015, Atlanta</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), and </span><a
href="http://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-43681-4"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">9838</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://conferences.au.dk/algo16/wabi/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2016, Aarhus</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">). As of 2016, they appeared in LIPICS volumes </span><a
href="http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/extern/index.php?semnr=16042"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">88</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://www.acm-bcb.org/WABI/2017/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2017, Boston</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), </span><a
href="http://drops.dagstuhl.de/portals/lipics/index.php?semnr=16080"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">113</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="http://algo2018.hiit.fi/wabi/"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2018, Helsinki</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">), and </span><a
href="https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/portals/lipics/index.php?semnr=16120"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">143</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;"> (</span><a
href="https://acm-bcb.org/WABI/2019/index.php"
style="text-decoration:none;"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#008cba;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">WABI 2019, Niagara Falls</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">).</span></p>
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<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2020</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#ff0000;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Submitted papers can be updated or withdrawn until May 6, 2020</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Notification of paper acceptance: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">June 19, 2020</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Final version of accepted paper due: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">June 30, 2020</span></p></li>
<li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt;" role="presentation"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">Conference: </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">September 7 - 9</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:#222222;background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">, 2020, in Pisa, Italy</span></p></li>
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