The RECOMB conference series was founded in 1997 to provide a scientific forum for theoretical advances in computational biology and their applications in molecular biology and medicine. The conference solicits research contributions from all areas of computational molecular biology. The origins of the conference came from the mathematical and computational side of the field, and there remains a focus on computational advances. In addition, the effective use of computational techniques in biological discovery is also an important aspect of the conference.

Program Committee Chairs

Conference Chairs

• 2022: Itsik Pe'er
• 2021: Jian Peng
• 2020: Russell Schwartz
• 2019: Lenore J. Cowen
• 2018: Benjamin J. Raphael
• 2017: S. Cenk Sahinalp
• 2016: Mona Singh
• 2015: Teresa M. Przytycka
• 2014: Roded Sharan
• 2013: Fengzhu Sun
• 2012: Benny Chor
• 2011: Vineet Bafna
• 2010: Bonnie Berger
• 2009: Serafim Batzoglou
• 2008: Martin Vingron
• 2007: Terry Speed
• 2006: Alberto Apostolico
• 2005: Satoru Miyano
• 2004: Dan Gusfield
• 2003: Webb Miller
• 2002: Gene Myers
• 2001: Thomas Lengauer
• 2000: Ron Shamir
• 1999: Sorin Istrail
• 1998: Pavel Pevzner
• 1997: Michael Waterman

• 2022: Vineet Bafna
• 2021: Fabio Vandin and Jian Ma
• 2020: Fabio Vandin
• 2019: Max Alekseyev and Teresa Przytycka
• 2018: Yann Ponty and Mireille Regnier
• 2017: Siu Ming Yiu
• 2016: Eleazar Eskin
• 2015: Jerzy Tiuryn and Bartek Wilczyński
• 2014: Panayiotis (Takis) Benos and Russell Schwartz
• 2013: Xuegong Zhang
• 2012: Rodric Guigo
• 2011: S. Cenk Sahinalp
• 2010: Arlindo Oliveira
• 2009: John Kececioglu
• 2008: Limsoon Wong
• 2007: Sandrine Dudoit
• 2006: Concettina Guerra
• 2005: Jill P. Mesirov and Simon Kasif
• 2004: Philip E. Bourne
• 2003: Martin Vingron
• 2002: Sridhar Hannenhalli
• 2001: David Sankoff
• 2000: Satoru Miyano
• 1999: Mireille Regnier
• 1998: Gary Benson
• 1997: Sorin Istrail

Venues and Proceedings

• 2022: San Diego, CA, United States, May 22–25, 2022
• 2021: Padova, Italy (virtual), August 29 – September 1, 2021
• 2020: Padova, Italy (virtual), June 22-25, 2020
• 2019: Washington, DC, United States, May 5-8, 2019
• 2018: Paris, France, April 21-24, 2018
• 2017: Hong Kong, May 3-7, 2017
• 2016: Los Angeles, CA, United States, April 17-21, 2016
• 2015: Warsaw, Poland, April 12-15, 2015.     Photo Album / Satellites Photo Album
• 2014: Pittsburgh, PA, United States, April 2-5, 2014
• 2013: Beijing, China, April 7-10, 2013
• 2012: Barcelona, Spain, April 21-24, 2012
• 2011: Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 28-31, 2011.    Photo Album
• 2010: Lisbon, Portugal, August 12-15, 2010
• 2009: Tucson, AZ, United States, May 18-21, 2009
• 2008: Singapore, March 30 - April 2, 2008
• 2007: Oakland, CA, United States, April 21-25, 2007
• 2006: Venice, Italy, April 2-5, 2006
• 2005: Cambridge, MA, United States, May 14-18, 2005
• 2004: San Diego, CA, United States, March 27-31, 2004
• 2003: Berlin, Germany, April 10-14, 2003
• 2002: Washington, DC, United States, April 18-21, 2002
• 2001: Montreal, Canada, April 22-25, 2001
• 2000: Tokyo, Japan, April 8-11, 2000
• 1999: Lyon, France, April 11-14, 1999
• 1998: New York, NY, United States, March 22-25, 1998
• 1997: Santa Fe, NM, United States, January 20-23, 1997

Keynote Speakers

• 2022: Regina Barzilay, Howard Y. Chang, John Chodera, Lenore Cowen, John Marioni, Bing Ren, Wenyi Wang
• 2021: Trey Ideker, Ming Li, Katie Pollard, Aviv Regev, Marie-France Sagot, Mona Singh
• 2020: Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Michal Linial, Satoru Miyano, Pavel Pevzner, Eran Segal, Russ Altman
• 2019: Carlos D. Bustamante, Rachel Kolodny, Mihai Pop, Franziska Michor, Eytan Ruppin, Alfonso Valencia
• 2018: Peter Campbell, Ron Shamir, Sarah Teichmann, Nevan Krogan, Francois Spitz, Tandy Warnow
• 2017: Colin Collins, Joe Gray, Laxmi Parida, Ben Raphael, Michael Schnall-Levin, Jun Wang
• 2016: Peter S. Kim, Rob Knight, Leonid Kruglyak, Phil Bradley, Teresa Przytycka, Karen Adelman
• 2015: Madan Babu, Bonnie Berger, M. Magda Konarska, Michael Levitt, Bas van Steensel, Wacław Szybalski
• 2014: Ian T. Baldwin, Atul Butte, JJ Collins, Trey Ideker, Tom Mitchell, Sarah A. Tishkoff
• 2013: Scott Fraser, Takashi Gojobori, Deborah Nickerson, Nadia A. Rosenthal, Chung-I Wu, Sunny Xie
• 2012: Richard Durbin, Eileen Furlong, Thomas Gingeras, Alfonso Valencia, Ada E. Yonath
• 2011: Evan Eichler, Daphne Koller, Marco Marra, Karen Nelson, Elaine Mardis, Joseph Nadeau
• 2010: Cecilia Arraiano, David Bartel, Isaac Kohane, Phil Kapranov, Norbert Perrimon Mona Singh
• 2009: Carlos D. Bustamante, Rade Drmanac, Mark Gerstein, Eran Halperin, Michael Hammer, Joanna Mountain, Stephen Quake, Mostafa Ronaghi, Pardis Sabeti, Michael Snyder
• 2008: Edison Liu, Sang Yup Lee, Andrei Lupas, Howard Cedar, Vivian Cheung, Temple F. Smith, Suzanne Cory
• 2007: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Yishi Jin, Jay D. Keasling, Harry F. Noller, Patrick O. Brown, Abby Dernburg, Aviv Regev
• 2006: Anne-Claude Gavin, David Haussler, Ajay Royyuru, David Sankoff, Michael Waterman, Carl Zimmer, Roman Zubarev
• 2005: David Altshuler, Wolfgang Baumeister, James Collins, Charles DeLisi, Jonathan King, Eric Lander, Michael Levine, Susan Lindquist
• 2004: Carlos D. Bustamante, Russell Doolittle, Andrew Fire, Richard Karp, William McGinnis, Deborah Nickerson, Martin Nowak, Christine Orengo, Elizabeth Winzeler
• 2003: Edward Trifonov, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Árpád Furka, Andrew Clark, David Haussler, Arthur Lesk, Dieter Oesterhelt, Terry Speed, Kari Stefansson
• 2002: Ruben Abagyan, Ali Brivanlou, Evan Eichler, Harold Garner, David Ho, Gerry Rubin, Craig Venter, Marc Vidal
• 2001: George Church, Phillip Sharp, Mark Adams, Roger Brent, Franz Lang, Klaus Lindpaintner, Yvonne Martin, Mark Ptashne, Matthias Wilm
• 2000: Minoru Kanehisa, Hans Lehrach, Svante Paabo, Eric Davidson, Takashi Gojobori, Leroy Hood, Walter Gilbert, Yusuke Nakamura
• 1999: Peer Bork, Cyrus Chothia, Daniel Cohen, John Moult, Gene Myers, Piotr Slonimski, E. M. Southern, Peter Willett, John Wooley
• 1998: Ruben Abagyan, Charles Cantor, David Cox, Ron Davis, Klaus Gubernator, Joshua Lederberg, Michael Levitt, David Schwartz, John Yates
• 1997: David Botstein, Sam Karlin, Martin Karplus, Eric Lander, Robert Lipshutz, Jonathan King, Rich Roberts, Temple Smith, Terry Speed

Best Paper Awards

• 2021: Serhan Yılmaz, Marzieh Ayati, Daniela Schlatzer, A. Ercüment Çiçek, Mark R. Chance and Mehmet Koyutürk. "Robust inference of kinase activity using functional networks".
• 2020: Amatur Rahman and Paul Medvedev. "Representation of k-mer sets using spectrum-preserving string sets".
• 2019: Martin J. Zhang, Fei Xia, James Zou. "AdaFDR: a fast, powerful and covariate-adaptive approach to multiple hypothesis testing".
• 2018: Sebastien Roch and Kun-Chieh Wang. "Circular networks from distorted metrics".
• 2017: Yijie Wang, Dong-Yeon Cho, Hangnoh Lee, Brian Oliver and Teresa Przytycka. "NetREX: Network Rewriting using EXpression - towards context specific regulatory networks".
• 2016: Emre Sefer and Ziv Bar-Joseph. "Shall we dense? Comparing design strategies for time series expression experiments".
• 2015: David Manescu and Uri Keich. "A symmetric length-aware enrichment test".
• 2014: Jianzhu Ma, Sheng Wang, Zhiyong Wang and Jinbo Xu. "MRFalign: protein homology detection through alignment of markov random fields".
• 2013: Fabio Vandin, Alexandra Papoutsaki, Ben Raphael, and Eli Upfahl. "Genome-wide survival analysis of somatic mutations in cancer".
• 2012: Patrick Holloway, Krister Swenson, David Ardell and Nadia El-Mabrouk for the contribution "Evolution of genome organization by duplication and loss: a linear programming approach".
• 2011: Shay Zakov, Yoav Goldberg, Michael Elhadad and Michal Ziv-Ukelson. "Rich parametrization improves RNA structure prediction".

Best Student Paper Awards

• 2021: Barış Ekim, Bonnie Berger and Rayan Chikhi. "Minimizer-space de Bruijn graphs: whole-genome assembly of long reads in minutes on a personal computer".
• 2018: Ariya Shajii, Ibrahim Numanagić and Bonnie Berger. "Latent variable model for aligning barcoded short-reads improves downstream analyses".

Best Poster Awards

• 2022: Daniel Ariad, Svetlana Madjunkova and Rajiv McCoy. "Inference of meiotic recombination events from a large sample of human embryos".
• 2021: Arun Das and Michael Schatz. "Analysis of sketching and sampling approaches for fast and accurate long read classification".
• 2020: Emilio Dorigatti and Benjamin Schubert. "Joint epitope selection and spacer design for strings-of-beads vaccine".
• 2019: Chirag Jain, Sanchit Misra, Haowen Zhang, Alexander Dilthey and Srinivas Aluru. "Accelerating sequence alignment to graphs".
• 2018: Luca Denti, Raffaella Rizzi, Stefano Beretta, Gianluca Della Vedova, Marco Previtali and Paola Bonizzoni. "ASGAL: aligning RNA-Seq Data to a splicing graph to detect novel alternative splicing events".
• 2017: Kavya Vaddadi, Naveen Sivadasan, Kshitij Tayal and Rajgopal Srinivasan. "Sequence alignment on directed graphs".
• 2016: Ilia Minkin, Son Pham and Paul Medvedev. "TwoPaCo: an efficient algorithm to build the compacted de Bruijn graph from many complete genomes".
• 2015: Vladimir Shchur and Richard Durbin. "Tree consistent PBWT and their application to reconstructing ancestral recombination graphs and demographic inference".
• 2014:
  • Patrick Flaherty and Yuting He. "RVD2: An ultra-sensitive variant detection model for low-depth targeted next-generation sequencing data".
  • Marinka Zitnik and Blaz Zupan. "Biomedical data fusion by simultaneous matrix tri-factorization".
• 2013:
  • Rongxin Fang and Zhihua Zhang. "Functional distinctive CTCF bindings revealed by a novel motif discovery pipeline".
  • Tomislav Ilicic and Richard Durbin. "Implementation of efficient haplotype matching using suffix array based methods".
• 2012:
  • Matthew Edwards and David Gifford. "High-resolution genetic mapping with pooled sequencing".
  • Thomas Bonfert, Gergely Csaba, Ralf Zimmer and Caroline C. Friedel. "A context-based approach to identify the most likely mapping for RNA-seq experiments".
• 2011:
  • Chen Yanover and Philip Bradley. "Large-scale characterization of binding landscapes using structural simulations: application to C2H2 zinc-finger transcription factors and MHC proteins".
  • Raheleh Salari and Teresa M Przytycka. "The effect of SNPs on Boltzmann distribution for RNA secondary structure".

Test of Time Awards

• 2022: Yu Peng, Henry C. M. Leung, S. M. Yiu and Francis Y. L. Chin. "IDBA – a Practical iterative de Bruijn graph de novo assembler". Published in RECOMB 2010.
• 2021: Nicholas D. Pattengale, Masoud Alipour, Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, Bernard M. E. Moret and Alexandros Stamatakis. "How many bootstrap replicates are necessary?". Published in RECOMB 2009.
• 2020: Maxim Kalaev, Vineet Bafna and Roded Sharan. "Fast and accurate alignment of multiple protein networks". Published in RECOMB 2008.
• 2019: Rohit Singh, Jinbo Xu and Bonnie Berger. "Pairwise global alignment of protein interaction networks by matching neighborhood topology". Published in RECOMB 2007.
• 2018: Steffen Grossmann, Sebastian Bauer, Peter N. Robinson and Martin Vingron. "An improved statistic for detecting over-represented gene ontology annotations in gene sets". Published in RECOMB 2006.
• 2017: Jacob Scott, Trey Ideker, Richard M. Karp, and Roded Sharan. "Efficient algorithms for detecting signaling pathways in protein interaction networks". Published in RECOMB 2005.
• 2016: Roded Sharan, Trey Ideker, Brian P. Kelley and Ron Shamir and Richard M. Karp. "Identification of protein complexes by comparative analysis of yeast and bacterial protein interaction data". Published in RECOMB 2004.
• 2015: Gene Yeo and Christopher B. Burge. "Maximum entropy modeling of short sequence motifs with applications to RNA splicing signals". Published in RECOMB 2003.
• 2014: Amir Ben-Dor, Benny Chor, Richard M. Karp and Zohar Yakhini. "Discovering local structure in gene expression data: the order-preserving submatrix problem". Published in RECOMB 2002.
• 2013:
  • Jeremy Buhler and Martin Tompa. "Finding motifs using random projections". Published in RECOMB 2001.
  • Pavel A. Pevzner, Haixu Tang and Michael S. Waterman. "A new approach to fragment assembly in DNA sequencing". Published in RECOMB 2001.
• 2012:
  • Nir Friedman, Michal Linial, Iftach Nachman and Dana Pe'er. "Using Bayesian network to analyse expression data". Published in RECOMB 2000.
  • Amir Ben-Dor, Laurakay Bruhn, Nir Friedman,Iftach Nachman, Michèl Schummer and Zohar Yakhini. "Tissue classification with gene expression profiles". Published in RECOMB 2000.
• 2011: Amir Ben-Dor, Ron Shamir and Zohar Yakhini. "Clustering gene expression patterns". Published in RECOMB 2001.