WABI

The annual WABI* Conference on Algorithms in Bioinformatics brings together researchers from all over the world working on the algorithmic aspects of computational biology for 3 days of contributed papers, invited talks, and poster sessions.

WABI was started in 2001 by Bernard Moret and Tandy Warnow at the invitation of Erik Meineche Schmidt, the organizer of the first ALGO meeting. It has been held every year since, in Europe (in conjunction with ALGO) and North America. WABI proceedings are published in established series (Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science from 2001 to 2016 and the Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics since 2017) and each year a selection of papers are invited for publication in Algorithms for Molecular Biology.

WABI steering committee: Lenore Cowen (Tufts University, USA), Nadia Pisanti (University of Pisa, Italy), Mona Singh (Princeton University, USA), and Jens Stoye (Bielefeld University, Germany).

WABI is held in even years in Europe, in conjunction with ALGO, and, since 2015, in odd years in North America.

WABI 2025 will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, MA, USA, organized by Mihai Pop (OC chair) and Rob Patro & Broňa Brejová (PC co-chairs).

Past WABI meetings with their PC chairs:

2024, Egham, UK, with ALGO; Solon P. Pissis and Wing-Kin Sung

2023, Houston, USA, with ACM-BCB; Aïda Ouangraoua and Djamal Belazzougui

2022, Potsdam, Germany, with ALGO; Christina Boucher and Sven Rahmann

2021, Chicago, USA (online), with ACM-BCB; Alessandra Carbone and Mohammed El-Kebir

2020, Pisa, Italy (online), with ALGO; Carl Kingsford and Nadia Pisanti

2019, Niagara Falls, USA, with ACM-BCB; Dan Gusfield and Katharina Huber

2018, Helsinki, Finland, with ALGO; Laxmi Parida and Esko Ukkonen

2017, Boston, USA, with ACM-BCB; Knut Reinert and Russell Schwartz

2016, Aarhus, Denmark, with ALGO; Martin Frith and Christian Pedersen

2015, Atlanta, USA, with ACM-BCB; Mihai Pop and Helene Touzet

2014, Wrocław, Poland, with ALGO; Daniel Brown and Burkhard Morgenstern

2013, Sophia-Antipolis, France, with ALGO; Aaron Darling and Jens Stoye

2012, Ljubljana, Slovenia, with ALGO; Benjamin Raphael and Jijun Tang

2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, with ALGO; Teresa Przytycka and Marie-France Sagot

2010, Liverpool, UK, with ALGO; Vincent Moulton and Mona Singh

2009, Philadelphia, USA; Stephen Salzberg and Tandy Warnow

2008, Karlsruhe, Germany, with ALGO; Keith Crandall and Jens Lagergren

2007, Philadelphia, USA; Raffaele Giancarlo and Sridhar Hannenhalli

2006, Zürich, Switzerland, with ALGO; Phillip Bucher and Bernard Moret

2005, Mallorca, Spain, with ALGO; Rita Casadio and Eugene Myers

2004, Bergen, Norway, with ALGO; Inge Jonassen and Junhyong Kim

2003, Budapest, Hungary, with ALGO; Gary Benson and Roderic Page

2002, Rome, Italy, with ALGO; Roderic Guigo and Dan Gusfield

2001, Aarhus, Denmark, with ALGO; Olivier Gascuel and Bernard Moret

*WABI started in 2001 as the "Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics", but since it soon developed into a typical conference format, we are now not using the term "Workshop" any more. We believe "Wonderful" is a highly suitable alternative.