Abstract
This volume contains the first half of a selected subset of articles that appeared in the 26th Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB). RECOMB 2022 was held in person in La Jolla, California, USA, during May 22–25. This year, 40 articles were selected from 188 submissions for presentation and incorporation in the RECOMB 2022 proceedings. Each of these 40 articles was reviewed by members of the program committee (PC), often with the help of additional external reviewers.
After initial reviews, articles were opened to discussion among the PC reviewers and PC chair before final decisions were made. Following a long tradition, accepted articles were invited for submission to a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology. Authors were also given the option of submitting a companion short software article.
The success of RECOMB 2022 is due to the hard work of many colleagues. I would like to thank the members of the PC and the external reviewers, whose efforts and expertise ensured a high-quality conference program and this Journal of Computational Biology special issue. I am especially grateful to the RECOMB 2022 Conference Chair Vineet Bafna from the University of California, San Diego. I thank the RECOMB Steering Committee and its Chair, Bonnie Berger, for extensive support throughout the review and planning process.
I am grateful to Jian Peng, program chair of RECOMB 2021, for his advice, guidance, and sharing of resources. I also thank the chairs of the satellite meetings, RECOMB-Genetics, RECOMB-CG, RECOMB-CCB, and RECOMB-Seq, and the privacy workshop: Sriram Sankararaman, Lingling Jin, Dannie Durand, Hannah Carter, Simone Zaccaria, Ben Langmead, and Gamze Gürsoy. Further thanks are due to the chair of the posters committee, Yaron Orenstein, the keynote chair, Ewa Szczurek, and the highlights chair, Sushmita Roy. Finally, I want to thank the many other contributors of keynote talks, highlight presentations, and posters, not to mention the numerous attendees who made RECOMB 2022 so memorable and successful.
This year marked a quarter century since the first RECOMB conference. I am thrilled we were able to celebrate this anniversary in person, especially after a gap of 3 long years since the RECOMB community last congregated due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was exciting to get everyone to meet again and, even more so, to observe the high quality of work that investigators presented at the meeting. I look forward to an uninterrupted string of meetings, seeing everyone in person in the coming years!