Algorithms for Computational Biology: Fifth Edition

Abstract

This special section of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics presents extended versions of some of the best papers presented at the Fifth International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2018, held in Hong Kong on June 25-26, 2018. The conference was organized by the Department of Computing of Hong Kong Polytechnic University and the Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics (GRLMC) from Rovira i Virgili University, Tarragona, Spain. AlCoB 2018 was the fifth event in a series dedicated to promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, evolutionary trees, and structure prediction. Out of 25 submissions to the conference, 11 papers were accepted (which represents an acceptance rate of 44%). Among them, the authors of three papers were invited to submit to this special section. Each submission was reviewed by three experts and, based on their comments, the guest editors decided to accept two papers for this special section (which represents an acceptance rate of about 8% out of the submissions to the conference).