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WABI 2020 Call for Papers<br>
20th Workshop on Algorithms in BIoinformatics
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Pisa (Italy) September 7-9 2020
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/WABI2020/">http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/WABI2020/</a><br>
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SCOPE<br>
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WABI is an international Conference covering 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 provide evidence of their potential usefulness in practice,
preferably by testing on appropriately chosen simulated or real
datasets.The goal is to present recent research results, including
significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions
of future research.
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PAPER SUBMISSION<br>
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Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the LIPIcs style <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://submission.dagstuhl.de/styles/download-tag/lipics/v2019.1/authors/zip"><https://submission.dagstuhl.de/styles/download-tag/lipics/v2019.1/authors/zip></a>and
must not exceed 15 pages excluding references. For details please
see the information for authors <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/"><https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/anleitung-fuer-autoren/></a>.
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:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi20">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi20</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2020"><https://easychair.org/conferences/?</a><br>
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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 ALGO 2020 <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://algo2020.di.unipi.it"><http://algo2020.di.unipi.it></a>website.
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You will need to register on the EasyChair web site before
submitting. A standard .pdf file must be received by May 4,
2020(time zone of your choice) in order for your submission to be
considered. Re-submission of already submitted papers will be
possible until May 6, 2020(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 arxiv.org <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://arxiv.org/"><http://arxiv.org/></a>or
biorxiv.org <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://biorxiv.org/"><http://biorxiv.org/></a>is
allowed.
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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.
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PROCEEDINGS<br>
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Accepted papers will be published in WABI proceedings in the LIPIcs
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/"><https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/></a>.
Selected papers will be invited for an extended publication in a
thematic series in Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB) <a
class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E"
href="http://almob.biomedcentral.com/"><http://almob.biomedcentral.com/></a>.
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Previous proceedings of WABI appeared in LNCS/LNBI volumes until
2015. As of 2016, they appeared in LIPICS volumes.<br>
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission deadline: May 4, 2020
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Submitted papers can be updated or withdrawn until May 6, 2020
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Notification of paper acceptance: June 19, 2020
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Final version of accepted paper due: June 30, 2020
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Conference: September 7 - 9, 2020, in Pisa, Italy
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PROGRAM COMMITTEE<font size="+1"><br>
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<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto
University, Japan</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Carl Barton, EBI, UK</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Anne Bergeron, Universite du
Quebec a Montreal, Canada</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Paola Bonizzoni, Università
di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Christina Boucher,
University of Florida, USA</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Alessandra Carbone,
Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Rayan Chikhi, Pasteur
Institute, France</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Lenore Cowen, Tufts
University, USA</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Gianluca Della Vedova,
University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Nadia El-Mabrouk, University
of Montreal, Canada</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Anna Gambin, Warsaw
University, Poland</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Raffaele Giancarlo,
University of Palermo, Italy</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE
genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Katharina Huber, University
of East Anglia, UK</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Carl Kingsford, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA (co-chair)</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Gunnar Klau, Heinrich Heine
University Düsseldorf, Germany</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Gregory Kucherov, University
of Paris Est, France</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Ritu Kundu, National
University of Singapore, Singapore</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Manuel Lafond, Université de
Sherbrooke, Canada</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Stefano Lonardi, University
of California Riverside, USA</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Veli Makinen, University of
Helsinki, Finland</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Guillaume Marçais, Carnegie
Mellon University, USA</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Tobias Marschall, Heinrich
Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany</font></li>
<li class="compact"><font size="+1">Bernard Moret, Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland</font></li>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Vincent Moulton,
University of East Anglia, UK</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Luay Nakhleh, Rice
University, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">William Stafford,
Noble University of Washington, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Nadia Pisanti,
University of Pisa, Italy (co-chair)</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Solon Pissis, CWI
Amsterdam, the Netherlands</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Alberto Policriti,
University of Udine, Italy</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Mihai Pop, University
of Maryland, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Teresa Przytycka NCBI,
NIH, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Sven Rahmann,
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Knut Reinert, FU
Berlin, Germany</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Eric Rivals, LIRMM -
Université de Montpellier, France</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Giovanna Rosone,
University of Pisa, Italy</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Marie-France Sagot,
INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Alexander Schoenhuth,
Bielefeld University, Germany</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Jens Stoye, Bielefeld
University, Germany</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Krister Swenson, CNRS
& Université de Montpellier, France</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Sharma Thankachan,
University of Central Florida, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Alexandru Tomescu,
University of Helsinki, Finland</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Hélène Touzet, CNRS,
CRIStAL Lille, France</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Esko Ukkonen,
University of Helsinki, Finland</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Tomas Vinar, Comenius
University, Slovakia</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Tandy Warnow,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Prudence W.H.Wong,
University of Liverpool, UK</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Louxin Zhang, National
University of Singapore, Singapore</font></div>
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<div class="col-sm-6"><font size="+1">Michal Ziv-Ukelson,
Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel</font> </div>
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