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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, WABI 2001, held in Aarhus, Denmark, in August 2001. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. Among the issues addressed are exact and approximate algorithms for genomics, sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression and gene networks, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design; methodological topics from algorithmics; high-performance approaches to hard computational problems in bioinformatics.
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Preface We are very pleased to present the proceedings of the First Workshop on Bioinformatics (WABI 2001), which took place in Aarhus on August 28–31, 2001, under the auspices of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (EATCS) and the Danish Center for Basic Research in Computer Science (BRICS). The Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics covers research on all aspects of algorithmic work in bioinformatics. The emphasis is on discrete algorithms that address important problems in molecular biology. These are founded on sound models, are computationally efficient, and have been implemented and tested in simulations and on real datasets. The goal is to present recent research results, including significant work-in-progress, and to identify and explore directions of future research. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: – Exact and approximate algorithms for genomics, sequence analysis, gene and signal recognition, alignment, molecular evolution, structure determination or prediction, gene expression and gene networks, proteomics, functional genomics, and drug design. – Methods, software and dataset repositories for development and testing of such algorith