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<div class="">WABI 2021 Call for Papers</div>
<div class="">21th Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics</div>
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<div class="">Chicago, USA (virtual), August 2-4 2021</div>
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<div class="">SCOPE</div>
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<div class="">WABI is an international conference covering research in algorithmic work in bioinformatics, computational biology and systems biology. The emphasis is mainly on discrete algorithms and machine-learning methods that address important problems
in molecular biology, that are founded on sound models, that are computationally efficient, and that provide evidence of their potential usefulness in practice, preferably by testing on appropriately chosen simulated or real datasets. The goal is to present
recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research.</div>
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<div class="">PAPER SUBMISSION</div>
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<div class="">Submissions must be formatted in LaTeX using the LIPIcs style <<a href="https://submission.dagstuhl.de/styles/download-tag/lipics/v2021.1/authors/zip" class="">https://submission.dagstuhl.de/styles/download-tag/lipics/v2021.1/authors/zip</a>>
and must not exceed 15 pages excluding references. For details please see the information for authors <<a href="https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors" class="">https://submission.dagstuhl.de/documentation/authors</a>>. Each paper must contain
a succinct statement of the issues and of their motivation, a summary of the main results, and a brief explanation of their significance, all accessible to non-specialist readers. All submissions must be made online, through the EasyChair submission system,
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<div class=""><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2021" class="">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wabi2021</a> </div>
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<div class="">For scientific information, please contact one of the WABI program committee co-chairs, Alessandra Carbone (<a href="mailto:Alessandra.Carbone@lip6.fr" class="">Alessandra.Carbone@lip6.fr</a>) or Mohammed El-Kebir (<a href="mailto:melkebir@illinois.edu" class="">melkebir@illinois.edu</a>).
For organizational information, please refer to the ACM-BCB 2021 <<a href="https://acm-bcb.org/" class="">https://acm-bcb.org/</a>> website.</div>
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<div class="">You will need to register on the EasyChair web site before submitting. A standard .pdf file must be received by April 16, 2021 (time zone of your choice) in order for your submission to be considered. Re-submission of already submitted papers
will be possible until April 18, 2021 (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
<a href="http://arxiv.org" class="">arxiv.org</a> <<a href="http://arxiv.org/" class="">http://arxiv.org/</a>> or
<a href="http://biorxiv.org" class="">biorxiv.org</a> <<a href="http://biorxiv.org/" class="">http://biorxiv.org/</a>> is allowed.</div>
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<div class="">By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register at ACM-BCB 2021 or WABI 2021, attend the conference, and present the paper.</div>
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<div class="">PROCEEDINGS</div>
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<div class="">Accepted papers will be published in WABI proceedings in the LIPIcs Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics <<a href="https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/" class="">https://www.dagstuhl.de/publikationen/lipics/</a>>. Selected
papers will be invited for an extended publication in a thematic series in Algorithms for Molecular Biology (AMB) <<a href="http://almob.biomedcentral.com/" class="">http://almob.biomedcentral.com/</a>>.</div>
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<div class="">Previous proceedings of WABI appeared in LNCS/LNBI volumes until 2015. As of 2016, they appeared in LIPICS volumes.</div>
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<div class="">IMPORTANT DATES</div>
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<div class=""> Paper submission deadline: April 16, 2021</div>
<div class=""> Submitted papers can be updated or withdrawn until April 18, 2021</div>
<div class=""> Notification of paper acceptance: May 21, 2021</div>
<div class=""> Final version of accepted paper due: May 31, 2021</div>
<div class=""> Conference: August 2 - 4, 2021, virtual</div>
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<div class="">PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div>
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<div class=""> Tatsuya Akutsu, Kyoto University, Japan</div>
<div class=""> Marco Antoniotti, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Anne Bergeron, Universite du Quebec a Montreal, Canada</div>
<div class=""> Paola Bonizzoni, Universita di Milano-Bicocca, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Christina Boucher, University of Florida, USA</div>
<div class=""> Alessandra Carbone, Sorbonne Universite, France (co-chair)</div>
<div class=""> Leonid Chindelevitch, Imperial College London, UK</div>
<div class=""> Lenore Cowen, Tufts University, USA</div>
<div class=""> Daniel Doerr, University of Duesseldorf, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Mohammed El-Kebir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA (co-chair)</div>
<div class=""> Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada</div>
<div class=""> Anna Gambin, Warsaw University, Poland</div>
<div class=""> Bjarni Halldorsson, deCODE genetics and Reykjavik University, Iceland</div>
<div class=""> Katharina Huber, University of East Anglia, UK</div>
<div class=""> Carl Kingsford, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div>
<div class=""> Gunnar Klau, Heinrich Heine University Dusseldorf, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Gregory Kucherov, University of Paris Est, France</div>
<div class=""> Manuel Lafond, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada</div>
<div class=""> Elodie Laine, Sorbonne Universite, France</div>
<div class=""> Yu Lin, Austrialia National University, Australia</div>
<div class=""> Stefano Lonardi, University of California Riverside, USA</div>
<div class=""> Veli Makinen, University of Helsinki, Finland</div>
<div class=""> Guillaume Marcais, Carnegie Mellon University, USA</div>
<div class=""> Tobias Marschall, Heinrich Heine University, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Erin Molloy, University of Maryland College Park / UCLA, US</div>
<div class=""> Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland</div>
<div class=""> Vincent Moulton, University of East Anglia, UK</div>
<div class=""> Francesca Nadalin, EMBL-EBI / ITT, Italy, England</div>
<div class=""> Mihai Pop, University of Maryland, USA</div>
<div class=""> Teresa Przytycka, NCBI, NIH, USA</div>
<div class=""> William Stafford Noble, University of Washington, USA</div>
<div class=""> Aida Ouangraoua, Universite de Sherbrooke, Canada</div>
<div class=""> Ion Petre, Turku University, Finland</div>
<div class=""> Nadia Pisanti, University of Pisa, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Solon Pissis, CWI Amsterdam, the Netherlands</div>
<div class=""> Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Sven Rahmann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Eric Rivals, LIRMM - Universite de Montpellier, France</div>
<div class=""> Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin Madison, US</div>
<div class=""> Giovanna Rosone, University of Pisa, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Marie-France Sagot, INRIA Rhone-Alpes, France</div>
<div class=""> Alexander Schoenhuth, Bielefeld University, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Mingfu Shao, Penn State, US</div>
<div class=""> Jens Stoye, Bielefeld University, Germany</div>
<div class=""> Krister Swenson, CNRS & Universite de Montpellier, France</div>
<div class=""> Ewa Szczurek, Warsaw University, Poland</div>
<div class=""> Sharma Thankachan, University of Central Florida, USA</div>
<div class=""> Alexandru Tomescu, University of Helsinki, Finland</div>
<div class=""> Helene Touzet, CNRS, France</div>
<div class=""> Esko Ukkonen, University of Helsinki, Finland</div>
<div class=""> Gianluca Della Vedova, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy</div>
<div class=""> Tomas Vinar, Comenius University, Slovakia</div>
<div class=""> Prudence W.H.Wong, University of Liverpool, UK</div>
<div class=""> Tandy Warnow, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA</div>
<div class=""> Simone Zaccaria, UCL Cancer Institute, UK</div>
<div class=""> Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore</div>
<div class=""> Xiuwei Zhang, Georgia Tech, US</div>
<div class=""> Michal Ziv-Ukelson, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel</div>
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