Preface

摘要

These proceedings contain the papers that were presented at the Second International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology (AlCoB 2015), held in Mexico City, Mexico, during August 4-5, 2015. The scope of AlCoB includes topics of either theoretical or applied interest, namely: 1. Exact sequence analysis 2. Approximate sequence analysis 3. Pairwise sequence alignment 4. Multiple sequence alignment 5. Sequence assembly 6. Genome rearrangement 7. Regulatory motif finding 8. Phylogeny reconstruction 9. Phylogeny comparison 10. Structure prediction 11. Compressive genomics 12. Proteomics: molecular pathways, interaction networks 13. Transcriptomics: splicing variants, isoform inference and quantification, differential analysis 14. Next-generation sequencing: population genomics, metagenomics, metatrans-criptomics 15. Microbiome analysis 16. Systems biology. AlCoB 2015 received 23 submissions. Most papers were reviewed by three and some by two Program Committee members. There were also two external reviewers consulted; we acknowledge all the reviewers in the next section. After a thorough and lively discussion phase, the committee decided to accept 11 papers (which represents an acceptance rate of 47.83 %). The conference program also included three invited talks and some presentations of work in progress.