Dear colleagues, Registration is now open to attend the 11th Recomb satellite meeting on Comparative Genomics that will be held in Lyon-Villeurbanne (France) from Thursday 17 to Saturday 19 October 2013. http://rcg2013.sciencesconf.org/ We invite you to attend this meeting and send an abstract for a poster presentation. During this meeting, best posters will be awarded! Please pay attention that our early bird registration fees are ending September 6th. Keynote speakers are - Tal Dagan (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany) - Kay Pruefer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany) - Ludovic Orlando (University of Copenhagen, Denmark) - France Denoeud (Genoscope, Evry, France) - Nicolas Galtier (Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution, Montpellier, France) - Laurent Duret (Laboratoire de Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, Lyon, France) In addition, 19 short presentations have been selected upon the acceptance of their article through a peer review process chaired by Macha Nikolski and Yves van de Peer, that will be published in BMC bioinformatics. We will be happy to host you in Lyon-Villeurbanne Macha Nikolski on behalf of the local organizing, program and steering committees.