Algorithms in Computational Biology

Dear Colleagues,

The last decade has witnessed the generation of increasingly massive and complex -omics data by high-throughput technologies: genomes, transcriptomes, proteomes, metagenomes, epigenomes, with important applications in biological, environmental, and biomedical sciences. The huge amount and heterogeneity of these data have taken computational biology into a big data era, with a shift from single-level analysis to large-scale multi-omics data integration. This has led to the rise of diverse problems to store, treat, and annotate these data that require powerful algorithmic techniques to be solved efficiently in practice. The aim of this Special Issue is to present state-of-the-art algorithmic innovations that allow facing the computational bottlenecks of -omics data analysis. This includes a variety of methods, such as discrete algorithms on sequences, trees and graphs, data structures and compressed data structures, parallel computing, combinatorial and sampling approaches, heuristics and parameterized algorithms, data mining, and machine learning techniques.

We invite you to submit high-quality papers to this Special Issue on “Algorithms in Computational Biology”, with subjects covering the whole range from theory to applications. Surveys are also welcome. The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interests:

• Genomics and pangenomics
• Transcriptomics
• Metagenomics
• Epigenomics
• Proteomics and proteogenomics
• Sequence comparison
• Sequence assembly
• Structural variants
• RNA and protein structures
• Structural and functional annotation
• Evolution and comparative genomics
• Biological networks

Dr. Helene Touzet
Dr. Aïda Ouangraoua
Guest Editors

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