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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Dear Colleagues, <o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">We warmly invite submissions to the <b>Mathematical Foundations in Bioinformatics (MatBio) 2021</b> special issue of the </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Journal
of Computational Biology</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"> according to the following call for papers.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">The MatBio conference series was founded in 2016, with conferences held annually in London
since then. The 2021 conference was on<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span><a href="https://nms.kcl.ac.uk/informatics/events/MatBio2021/" style="color:rgb(149, 79, 114);text-decoration:underline"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">Sept
2021</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48);background-color:white;background-position:initial initial;background-repeat:initial initial">, and we welcome your contribution to this special issue in its place.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><br>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">CALL FOR PAPERS: </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">This special issue on </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(32, 31, 30);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">the <b>Journal
of Computational Biology</b> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">will be devoted to topics on novel algorithms for biological sequence and structure analysis, phylogeny reconstruction,
and combinatorial algorithms. Submissions presenting original research within these areas are invited. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Topics of interest include but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Algorithms and Data Structures</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Complexity Theory</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Graph Theory & Combinatorics</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Combinatorial Optimization</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Sequence analysis</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Online Algorithms</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Streaming Algorithms</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Big data</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Biostatistics</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Image analysis</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Network and graph models</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Scientific data management and data mining</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Machine learning</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">* Computational evolutionary biology</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:rgb(50, 49, 48)"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Title Page- Title, Authors & Affiliations [include all email(s)], Running Head<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Abstract- 250 words or less with 5 Keywords<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Introduction<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Methods<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Results<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Discussion<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Acknowledgements/Disclosure/Conflict of Interest Statements<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">References in JCB specified format (LaTex template available upon request)<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
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<span style="font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Figure Legends<o:p> </o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#191919;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;tab-stops:list 36.0pt;background:white">
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files are typically 300 dpi resolution.<span> <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span>Label each file with the author's last name and Figure number.<span> </span>Ex. Smith Figure 1<o:p> </o:p></span></li></ol>
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<span style="color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">1. Upload the main LaTeX file first, selecting the file designation of Main Document.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Then, upload each file that is related to the main.TEX file as is needed for processing, selecting the file designation of TeX/LaTeX Suppl File.<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="color:rgb(25, 25, 25);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">2. Authors may choose to upload a complete, full text (including figures and tables) PDF under the file designation "Full Manuscript PDF".<o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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