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href="http://algo2020.di.unipi.it/WABI2020"
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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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justify;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><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;">COVID-19 Arrangements for ALGO 2020</span></h2>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><font
face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: 400; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Organization Committee (OC) is committed to ALGO 2020 and is aware of the pandemic situation for the COVID-19 outbreak, announced by the World Health Organization. As already happened for other conferences, the OC is preparing backup plans such as moving the events or (partially) running them in a virtual way. <b>The scientific activity of the Programme Committees of the ALGO conferences has not been suspended or stopped: peer review, accepted papers, camera ready and proceedings will be accomplished as usual. </b>As for the talks and the participation, the health and safety of our community is our priority: either attending and giving the talks will be safe, and/or virtual presence will be possible in case of remaining safety concerns or travel restrictions.</span></font></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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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:underline;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;text-decoration-skip-ink:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre;white-space:pre-wrap;">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2020</span></a></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" moz-do-not-send="true">pisanti@di.unipi.it</a>) or Carl Kingsford (<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:carlk@cs.cmu.edu" moz-do-not-send="true">carlk@cs.cmu.edu</a>). For organizational information, please refer to the </span><a
href="http://algo2020.di.unipi.it"
style="text-decoration:none;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><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;"
moz-do-not-send="true"><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, in order to have the paper included in the conference proceedings, 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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;">. </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;">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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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;" moz-do-not-send="true"><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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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:18pt;margin-bottom:6pt;"><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;">Program Committee</span></h2>
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