Abstract
RECOMB-CG is a place where scientists working on all aspects of comparative genomics can share ideas on the development of concepts, tools, or their applications to address relevant questions in biology. A range of algorithmic, statistical, and mathematical techniques to elucidate the histories of genomes was presented.
The program included six invited talks:
• Brenda Andrews, University of Toronto • Andrew G. Clark, Cornell University • Nicolas Corradi, University of Ottawa • Jan Dvorak, University of California at Davis • Aoife McLysaght, University of Dublin • Nicholas Putnam, Rice University
Twenty-five submitted papers were selected for presentation. In this volume, which includes full versions of 18 of them, several aspects of the current research on genome evolution are found. The combinatorics of genome rearrangements is still a subject of theoretical and prospective research, and is also used in more and more accurate gene order phylogenies. Several papers refine the models of genome evolution, and more and more genomic events can be modelized, from single nucleotide substitutions in whole genome alignments, to large structural mutations or horizontal gene transfers. Techniques of ancestral genome mapping also give rise to new theoretical developments on gene clusters. Genome evolution is approached in a broad sense, including complex gene relations and regulations. In RECOMB-CG 2010, both theoretical and applied research have a place.
I would like to thank all the participants of the conference and, in addition, all the people who submitted a paper or a poster to the conference, or to this special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology. Thanks also go to the program committee members and the other reviewers, who did a great amount of work for the conference in a limited amount of time, as well as for the full papers presented here. A special thanks is owed to David Sankoff, who was always present during the process, as the Conference Chair, as an author of several papers, as the local organizer of the 2010 edition, as a speaker at the conference, and as a constant, helpful external adviser of the program committee.
Committees and Additional Reviewers
Conference chair
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada
Steering committee
Aoife McLysaght, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Ireland
Jens Lagergren, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
David Sankoff, University of Ottawa, Canada
Local organizing committee
Anne Bergeron, Université du Qúebecà Montŕeal
Frank Dehne, Carleton University
Guy Drouin, University of Ottawa
Nadia El-Mabrouk, Université de Montŕeal
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University
Marcel Turcotte, University of Ottawa
Program committee chair
Eric Tannier, INRIA, Université de Lyon, France
Program committee
Lars Arvestad, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
Anne Bergeron, Université du Qúebec à Montŕeal, Canada
Mathieu Blanchette, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Guillaume Blin, Université Paris-Est, France
Guillaume Bourque, Genome Institute of Singapore
Marilia Braga, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Michael Brudno, University of Toronto, Canada
Jeremy Buhler, Washington University, Saint Louis, United States
Sèverine Bérard, Université de Montpellier, France
Cedric Chauve, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Avril Coghlan, University College Cork, Ireland
Aaron Darling, University of California-Davis, United States
Dannie Durand, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Nadia El-Mabrouk, University of Montreal, Canada
Niklas Eriksen, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Patricia Evans, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Guillaume Fertin, Université de Nantes, France
Matthew Hahn, Indiana University, United States
Joao Meidanis, University of Campinas/Scylla Bioinformatics, Brazil
Bernard Moret, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Craig Nelson, University of Connecticut, United States
Aida Ouangraoua, INRIA-Lille Nord Europe, France
Michal Ozery-Flato, School of Computer Science, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Teresa Przytycka, National Institutes of Health (NIH), United States
Eric Rivals, CNRS, Université de Montpellier, France
Eduardo Rocha, CNRS, Université Paris 6, France
Hugues Roest Crollius, CNRS, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France
Jens Stoye, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Krister Swenson, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Glenn Tesler, University of California, San Diego, United States
Elisabeth Tillier, Cancer Institute of Ontario, University Health Network, Canada
Stéphane Vialette, CNRS, Université Paris-Est, France
Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University, United States
Sophia Yancopoulos, Feinstein Institute for Medical Research, United States
Louxin Zhang, National University of Singapore
Additional reviewers
Sébastien Angibaud, Université de Nantes, France
Robert Beiko, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Camille Berthelot, Ecole Normale Supérieure Paris, France
Annie Chateau, Université de Montpellier, France
Pedro Feijao, University of Campinas, Brazil
Katharina Jahn, Universität Bielefeld, Germany
Irena Rusu, Université de Nantes, France
Florian Sikora, Université Paris-Est, France
Maureen Stolzer, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
Todd Treangen, Institut Pasteur, CNRS and UPMC University, France
Roland Wittler, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Damian Wojtowicz, NIH, United States
Jie Zheng, NIH, United States
Previous Meetings
2003, Minneapolis, United States
2004, Bertinoro, Italy
2005, Dublin, Ireland
2006, Montreal, Canada
2007, San Diego, United States
2008, Paris, France
2009, Budapest, Hungary
2010, Ottawa, Canada (present meeting)
Next Meeting
2011, Galway, Ireland