The conference proceeding LNCS 11346 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Combinatorial Optimization and Applications, COCOA 2018, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in December 2018. The 50 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 submissions. The papers cover most aspects of t graph algorithms, routing and network design problems, scheduling algorithms, network optimization, combinatorial algorithms, approximation algorithms, paths and connectivity problems and much more.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computing and Combinatorics, COCOON 2014, held in Atlanta, GA, USA, in August 2014. The 51 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 110 submissions. There was a co-organized workshop on computational social networks (CSoNet 2014) where 8 papers were accepted. The papers cover the following topics: sampling and randomized methods; logic, algebra and automata; database and data structures; parameterized complexity and algorithms; computational complexity; computational biology and computational geometry; approximation algorithm; graph theory and algorithms; game theory and cryptography; scheduling algorithms and circuit complexity and CSoNet.

th The 4 edition of the InternationalSymposium on BioinformaticsResearchand Applications (ISBRA 2008) was held on May 6-9, 2008 at Georgia State U- versity in Atlanta, Georgia. The symposium provides a forum for the exchange of ideas and results among researchers, developers, and practitioners working on all aspects of bioinformatics and computational biology and their applications. The technical program of the symposium included 35 contributed papers, selected by the Program Committee from a number of 94 full submissions - ceived in response to the call for papers. The technical program also included six papers contributed to the First International Workshop on Optimal Data Mining in Gene Expression Analysis (ODGEA 2008), which was held in c- junction with ISBRA 2008. In addition to the contributed papers, the sym- sium included tutorials and poster sessions and featured invited keynote talks by six distinguished speakers. Andrew Scott Allen from Duke University and Dan Nicolae from the University of Chicago spoke on novel analysis methods for genome-wide association studies; Kenneth Buetow, director of the National Cancer Institute Center for Bioinformatics, spoke on the cancer Biomedical - formatics Grid; Andrey Gorin from Oak Ridge National Laboratory spoke on peptide identi?cation from mass spectrometry data; Yury Khudyakov from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention spoke on integrative viral molecular epidemiology; and Kwok Tsui from Georgia Institute of Technology spoke on data mining and statistical methods for analyzing microarray experiment

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2007, held in Atlanta, GA, USA in May 2007.

The 55 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 146 submissions. The papers cover a wide range of topics, including clustering and classification, gene expression analysis, gene networks, genome analysis, motif finding, pathways, protein structure prediction, protein domain interactions, phylogenetics, and software tools.

It gives me great pleasure to present the Special Issue of LNCS Transactions on Computational Systems Biology devoted to considerably extended versions of selected papers presented at the International Workshop on Bioinformatics Research and Applications (IWBRA 2005). The IWBRA workshop was a part of the International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2005) which took place in Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, May 22 24, 2005. See http: //www.cs.gsu.edu/pan/ iwbra.htm for more details. The 10 papers selected for the special issue cover a wide range of bioinformatics research. The first papers are devoted to problems in RNA structure prediction: Blin et al. contribute to the arc-preserving subsequence problem and Liu et al. develop an efficient search of pseudoknots. The coding schemes and structural alphabets for protein structure prediction are discussed in the contributions of Lei and Dai, and Zheng and Liu, respectively. Song et al. propose a novel technique for efficient extraction of biomedical information. Nakhleh and Wang discuss introducing hybrid speciation and horizontal gene transfer in phylogenetic networks. Practical algorithms minimizing recombinations in pedigree phasing are proposed by Zhang et al. Kolliet al. propose a new parallel implementation in OpenMP for finding the edit distance between two signed gene permutations. The issue is concluded with two papers devoted to bioinformatics problems that arise in DNA microarrays: improved tag set design for universal tag arrays is suggested by Mandoiu et al. and a new method of gene selection is discussed by Xu and Zhang."

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2021, held as a virtual event during December 16-18, 2021. The 13 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 17 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Computational advances in bio and medical sciences; and computational advances in molecular epidemiology.

This book constitutes revised selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Computational Advances in Bio and Medical Sciences, ICCABS 2019, held in Miami, Florida, USA in November 2019.The 15 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 30 submissions. They deal with topics such as computational biology; biomedical image analysis; biological networks; cancer genomics; gene enrichment analysis; functional genomics; interaction networks; protein structure prediction; dynamic programming; and microbiome analysis.