Some basic information about the WABI conferences

Some basic information about the WABI conferences

We have an official web site in preparation, accessible under the following two addresses:

Steering Committee

Vincent Moulton (since 09/2012)
Nadia Pisanti (since 09/2022)
Mona Singh (since 09/2022)
Jens Stoye (since 09/2012)

retired:

Gary Benson (2004, according to WABI 2004 web page)
Rod Page (2004, according to WABI 2004 web page)
Roderic Guigo (2003-2004, according to WABI 2003/2004 web pages)
Dan Gusfield (2003-2004, according to WABI 2003/2004 web pages)
Olivier Gascuel (2002-2004, according to WABI 2002/2003/2004 web pages)
Raffaele Giancarlo (2002-2004, according to WABI 2002/2003/2004 web pages)
Jotun Hein (2002, according to WABI 2002 web page)
Erik Meineche-Schmidt (2002, according to WABI 2002 web page)
Bernard Moret (2001-09/2022)
Tandy Warnow (09/2012-09/2022)

Conference Venues

2027 TBA (Boston, MA, USA?)
2026 TBA
2025 University of Maryland, MD, USA
2024 Egham, UK (part of ALGO)
2023 Houston, TX, USA (co-located with ACM-BCB)
2022 Potsdam, Germany (part of ALGO)
2021 virtual in Chicago, IL, USA (co-located with ACM-BCB)
2020 virtual in Pisa, Italy (part of ALGO)
2019 Niagara Falls, NY, USA (co-located with ACM-BCB)
2018 Helsinki, Finland (part of ALGO)
2017 Boston, MA, USA (co-located with ACM-BCB)
2016 Aarhus, Denmark (part of ALGO)
2015 Atlanta, GA, USA (co-located with ACM-BCB)
2014 Wrocław, Poland (part of ALGO)
2013 Sofia Antipolis, France (part of ALGO)
2012 Ljubljana, Slowenia (part of ALGO)
2011 Saarbrücken, Germany (part of ALGO)
2010 Liverpool, U.K. (part of ALGO)
2009 Philadelphia, PA, USA (independent)
2008 Karlsruhe, Germany (part of ALGO)
2007 Philadelphia, PA, USA (independent)
2006 Zurich, Switzerland (part of ALGO)
2005 Mallorca, Spain (part of ALGO)
2004 Bergen, Norway (part of ALGO)
2003 Budapest, Hungary (part of ALGO)
2002 Rome, Italy (part of ALGO)
2001 Aarhus, Denmark (part of ALGO)

OC Chairs

Checklist for OC chairs: click here.

2024 Argyrios Deligkas, Eduard Eiben (for ALGO)
2023 Byung Jun, Tamer Kahveci (general chairs for ACM-BCB and WABI)
2022 Tobias Friedrich, Pascal Lenzner, Gregor Lagodzinski, Timo Kötzing (for ALGO)
2021 Hongmei Jiang, Xiuzhen Huang, Jiajie Zhang (general chairs for ACM-BCB and WABI)
2020 Roberto Grossi (for ALGO)
2019 Xinghua (Mindy) Shi, Michael Buck (general chairs for ACM-BCB and WABI)
2018 Parinya Chalermsook, Petteri Kaski, Jukka Suomela (for ALGO)
2017 Nurit Haspel, Lenore J. Cowen (general chairs for ACM-BCB and WABI)
2016 Gerth Stølting Brodal (for ALGO)
2015 Srinivas Aluru (general chair for ACM-BCB and WABI)
2014 Jarosław Byrka, Leszek Pacholski (for ALGO)
2013 Monique Teillaud (for ALGO)
2012 Andrej Brodnik (for ALGO)
2011 Kurt Mehlhorn (for ALGO)
2010 Leszek Gąsieniec (for ALGO)
2009 Junhyong Kim
2008 Peter Sanders, Dorothea Wagner (for ALGO)
2007 Junhyong Kim
2006 Michael Hoffmann (for ALGO)
2005 Josep Lluís Ferrer, Maria Serna (for ALGO)
2004 Fedor Fomin, Pinar Heggernes (for ALGO)
2003 János Csirik, Csanád Imreh, Boglárka Tóth, Tamás Vinkó (for ALGO)
2002 Giorgio Ausiello, Fabrizio d'Amore, Camil Demetrescu, Silvana Di Vincenzo, Paolo Giulio Franciosa, Daniele Frigioni, Stefano Leonardi, Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, Alessandro Panconesi (for ALGO)
2001 Gerth Stølting Brodal (for ALGO)

PC Chairs

Checklist for PC chairs: click here.

2024 Solon Pissis, Ken Sung Wing-kin
2023 Aïda Ouangraoua, Djamal Belazzougui
2022 Christina Boucher, Sven Rahmann
2021 Alessandra Carbone, Mohammed El-Kebir
2020 Carl Kingsford, Nadia Pisanti
2019 Dan Gusfield, Katharina Huber
2018 Laxmi Parida, Esko Ukkonen
2017 Knut Reinert, Russell Schwartz
2016 Martin Frith, Christian N. S. Pedersen
2015 Mihai Pop, Hélène Touzet
2014 Dan Brown, Burkhard Morgenstern
2013 Aaron Darling, Jens Stoye
2012 Ben Raphael, Jijun Tang
2011 Teresa Przytycka, Marie-France Sagot
2010 Vincent Moulton, Mona Singh
2009 Steven Salzberg, Tandy Warnow
2008 Keith Crandall, Jens Lagergren
2007 Raffaele Giancarlo, Sridhar Hannenhalli
2006 Philipp Bucher, Bernard Moret
2005 Rita Casadio, Gene Myers
2004 Inge Jonassen, Junhyong Kim
2003 Gary Benson, Roderic Page
2002 Roderic Guigo, Dan Gusfield
2001 Olivier Gascuel, Bernard Moret

Keynote Speakers

2024 Tomás Vinar (Comenius University, Slovakia)
2023 Teresa Przytycka (NCBI/NLM/NIH, USA)
2022 Leena Salmela (University of Helsinki, Finland)
2021 Mona Singh (Princeton University, USA)
2020 Dan Gusfield (UC Davis, USA)
2019 Nadia El-Mabrouk (Université de Montréal, Canada)
2018 Mihai Pop (University of Maryland, USA)
2017 Tandy Warnow (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA)
2016 Kiyoshi Asai (University of Tokyo, Japan)
2015 Paola Bonizzoni (Università Degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy)
2014 Hélène Touzet (University of Lille, France)
2013 Bernard Moret (EPFL, Switzerland)
2012 Jens Stoye (Bielefeld University, Germany)
2011 Vincent Moulton (University of East Anglia, U.K.)
2010 Eran Halperin (Tel Aviv University, Israel and ICSI, Berkeley, CA, USA), Paolo Ferragina (University of Pisa, Italy)
2009 Shelley Berger (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA), Elchanan Mossel (Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel)
2008 Eytan Ruppin (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
2007 Maja Bucan (University of Pennsylvania, PA, USA), Pavel Pevzner (UC San Diego, CA, USA)
2006 Ron Shamir (Tel Aviv University, Israel)
2005 Marino Zerial (MPI of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany)
2004 Marie-France Sagot (Inria Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France)
2003 Francois Major (Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada)
2002 Gene Myers (Celera Genomics, USA)
2001 [Gene Myers (Celera Genomics, USA) - cancelled]

Program Committees

Conflict-of-interest Policy: click here.

2024 (32 members)
2023 (48 members)
2022 (47 members)
2021 (60 members)
2020 (50 members)
2019 (54 members)
2018 (54 members)
2017 (55 members)
2016 (52 members)
2015 (58 members)
2014 (55 members)
2013 (63 members)
2012 (58 members)
2011 (63 members)
2010 (47 members)
2009 (60 members)
2008 (39 members)
2007 (50 members)
2006 (32 members)
2005 (40 members)
2004 (33 members)
2003 (28 members)
2002 (29 members)
2001 (22 members)

Submissions

2024: ?? (?? accepted, xx%)
2023: 44 (22 accepted, 50%)
2022: 44 (24 accepted, 55%)
2021: 38 (20 accepted, 53%)
2020: 38 (19 accepted, 50%)
2019: 47 (24 accepted, 51%)
2018: 57 (25 accepted, 44%)
2017: 55 (27 accepted, 49%)
2016: 56 (27 accepted, 48%)
2015: 57 (26 accepted, 46%)
2014: 61 (27 accepted, 44%)
2013: 61 (27 accepted, 44%)
2012: 92 (35 accepted, 38%)
2011: 77 (30 accepted, 39%)
2010: 83 (30 accepted, 36%)
2009: 90 (34 accepted, 38%)
2008: 81 (32 accepted, 40%)
2007: 133 (37 accepted, 28%)
2006: 100 (36 accepted, 36%)
2005: 94 (35 accepted, 37%)
2004: 117 (39 accepted, 33%)
2003: 78 (36 accepted, 46%)
2002: 83 (39 accepted, 47%)
2001: 50 (23 accepted, 46%)

Proceedings Volume

Statement by Editors-in-Chief on publishing extended versions in AMB: click here

2024: LILIcs Vol. xxx (extended versions of selected papers will appear in a Thematic Series of AMB)
2023: LIPIcs Vol. 273 (extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2022: LIPIcs Vol. 242 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2021: LIPIcs Vol. 201 (extended versions of selected papers will appear in a Thematic Series of AMB)
2020: LIPIcs Vol. 172 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2019: LIPIcs Vol. 143 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2018: LIPIcs Vol. 113 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2017: LIPIcs Vol. 88 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2016: LNBI 9838 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2015: LNBI 9289 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2014: LNBI 8701 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in AMB)
2013: LNBI 8126 (also in arxiv; extended versions of selected papers appeared in AMB)
2012: LNBI 7534 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in AMB)
2011: LNBI 6833 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in AMB)
2010: LNBI 6293 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2009: LNBI 5724 ( extended proceedings appeared as a Collection in AMB)
2008: LNBI 5251 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2007: LNBI 4645 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2006: LNBI 4175 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2005: LNBI 3692 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2004: LNBI 3240 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2003: LNBI 2812 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2002: LNCS 2452 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)
2001: LNCS 2149 (extended versions of selected papers appeared in ???)

Registration Fees (full/student early, full/student late)

2024: TBA
2023: 945$/695$, 1045$/795$ for ACM-BCB & WABI, 200$ discount for ACM/SIGBio members - including coffee breaks, lunches, poster session reception, conference dinner
2022: 300€/200€, 400€/300€ (“half” week) - including coffee breaks, lunches and welcome reception; conference dinner +100€ (included only in “full” week registration, +200€)
2021: 50$ for students, 100$ for ACM/SIGBio members/150$ general (virtual conference due to coronavirus pandemics)
2020: free registration (virtual conference due to coronavirus pandemics)
2019: 780$/500$, 880$/600$ for ACM-BCB & WABI, 100$ discount for ACM/SIGBio members - including breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and conference dinner
2018: 330€/240€, 495€/360€ for ALGO (assuming 3-day attendance) - including coffee breaks, lunches, excursion, banquet, reception
2017: 780$/500$, 880$/600$ for ACM-BCB & WABI, 100$ discount for ACM/SIGBio members - including coffee breaks, conference dinner (not for students), not including lunches
2016: 240€/190€, 375€/280€ for ALGO (assuming 3-day attendance) - including coffee breaks, lunches, conference dinner and barbecue
2015: 700$/500$, 800$/600$ for ACM-BCB & WABI, 100$ discount for ACM/SIGBio members - including breakfasts, coffee breaks, lunches and conference dinner
2014: 220€/170€, 310€/260€ for ALGO (assuming 3-day attendance) - including coffee breaks, lunches and conference dinner
2013: 430€/380€, 540€/480€ for ALGO - including coffee breaks, lunches and conference dinner
2012:
2011:
2010:
2009: 350$/200$, 425$/275$ for WABI only - including ???
2008:
2007:
2006:
2005:
2004:
2003: 75,000 HUF/45,000 HUF, 90,000 HUF/60,000 HUF for ALGO, including coffee breaks lunches and banquet
2002:
2001:

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