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COVID-19 Arrangements for ALGO 2020</span>
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justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">The Organization Committee (OC) of ALGO 2020 is aware of the pandemic situation for the COVID-19 outbreak. The OC is preparing to run ALGO 2020 conferences in a virtual way. Meanwhile, *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.* Like ESA, in order to help authors in this complex time, we postponed the paper submission deadline.</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: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 29, 2020</span></p></li>
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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;">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: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">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, 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;"><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;"><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>
<p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:
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>
<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><br>
<p dir="ltr"
style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Carl Barton, EBI, UK</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Paola Bonizzoni, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Alessandra Carbone, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Rayan Chikhi, Pasteur Institute, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Lenore</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Cowen, Tufts University, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Raffaele Giancarlo, University of Palermo, Italy</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Dan Gusfield, UC Davis, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (co-chair)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Gunnar Klau, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris Est, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Ritu Kundu, National University of Singapore, Singapore</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Manuel Lafond, Université de Sherbrooke, Canada</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Guillaume Marçais, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Tobias</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Marschall, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Luay Nakhleh, Rice University, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">William Stafford, Noble University of Washington, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy (co-chair)</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Solon Pissis, CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Alberto</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Policriti</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">, University of Udine, Italy</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Teresa</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Przytycka NCBI, NIH, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Eric Rivals, LIRMM - Université de Montpellier, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Giovanna Rosone, University of Pisa, Italy</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Rhône-Alpes, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Krister Swenson, CNRS & Université de Montpellier, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Alexandru Tomescu, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Hélène</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Touzet, CNRS, CRIStAL Lille, France</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Tomas Vinar, Comenius University, Slovakia</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Prudence W.H.Wong, University of Liverpool, UK</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Louxin</span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;"> </span><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore</span></p>
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style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;"><span style="font-size:11pt;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;">Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel</span></p>
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