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    Dear colleague,
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        <p>We are pleased to announce that the Conference CiE 2021 (<a
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        <p>Special Session on COMPUTATIONAL PANGENOMICS<br>
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        <p>Schedule <span class="KfQeJ">(CEST)</span>:</p>
        /Thursday July 8, 15h30-17h/<br>
        Francesca Ciccarelli (King's College London, UK):<br>
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          resolution</em><br>
        Benedict Paten (University of California Santa Cruz, USA):<em
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          sequence graphs into blunt sequence graphs with GetBlunted<br>
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        Rayan Chikhi (Pasteur Institute, France):<br>
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          tale of optimizing the space taken by de Bruijn graphs</em><br>
        Brona Brejova (Cormenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia):<br>
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          You are kindly invited to join us!!!<br>
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          Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy) and Solon Pissis
          (CWI Amsterdam)<br>
          Special Session Chairs<br>
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