8th International Conference, AlCoB 2021
Missoula, MT, USA, June 7–11, 2021
Proceeding

These proceedings contain the papers that were presented at the 8th International
Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2021), held in
Missoula, Montana, USA, during June 7–11, 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic,
AlCoB 2020 and AlCoB 2021 were merged and held on these dates together. AlCoB
2020 proceedings were published as LNCS/LNBI 12099.
The scope of AlCoB includes topics of either theoretical or applied interest, namely
– Sequence analysis
– Sequence alignment
– Sequence assembly
– Genome rearrangement
– Regulatory motif finding
– Phylogeny reconstruction
– Phylogeny comparison
– Structure prediction
– Compressive genomics
– Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks, mass spectrometry analysis
– Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential
analysis
– Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatranscriptomics, epigenomics
– Genome CD architecture
– Microbiome analysis
– Cancer computational biology
– Systems biology
AlCoB 2021 received 22 submissions. Most papers were reviewed by three Program
Committee members. There were also a few external reviewers consulted. After a
thorough and vivid discussion phase, the committee decided to accept 12 papers (which
represents an acceptance rate of about 55%). The conference program included three
invited talks and some poster presentations of work in progress.
The excellent facilities provided by the EasyChair conference management system
allowed us to deal with the submissions successfully and handle the preparation
of these proceedings in time.
We would like to thank all invited speakers and authors for their contributions, the
Program Committee and the external reviewers for their cooperation, and Springer for
its very professional publishing work