History of RECOMB

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. Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:

  • Molecular sequence analysis
  • Recognition of genes and regulatory elements
  • Molecular evolution
  • Gene expression
  • Biological networks
  • Sequencing and genotyping techniques
  • Genomics
  • Population genetics
  • Systems biology
  • Imaging
  • Computational proteomics
  • Molecular structural 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.

You can watch some previous talks of the conference at our YouTube channel.

Past RECOMB Conferences

  • RECOMB 2024: Cambridge, MA, USA, April 29 - May 2, 2024
    • Program Committee Chair: Jian Ma
    • Organization Committee: Bonnie Berger (co-chair), Lenore Cowen (co-chair), Iman Hajirasouliha
    • Keynote Speakers: Jim Collins, Shafi Goldwasser, Bob Langer, Xihong Lin, Steven Salzberg
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  • RECOMB 2023: İstanbul, Türkiye, April 16-19, 2023
    • Program Committee Chair: Haixu Tang
    • Organization Committee: Can Alkan (co-chair), Attila Gürsoy (co-chair), Zülal Bingöl, A. Ercüment Çiçek, Tunca Doğan, Ezgi Ebren, Arzucan Özgür, Öznur Taştan
    • Keynote Speakers: İvet Bahar, Ewan Birney, Richard Durbin, Tuuli Lappalainen, Sohini Ramachandran, Fabian Theis
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  • RECOMB 2022: San Diego, CA, USA, May 22–25, 2022
    • Program Committee Chair: Itsik Pe’er
    • Organization Committee: Vineet Bafna (chair), Vikas Bansal, Jocelyn Bernardo, Melissa Gymrek, Siavash Mirarab, Glenn Tesler, Kaiyuan Zhu
    • Keynote Speakers: Regina Barzilay, Howard Y. Chang, John Chodera, Lenore Cowen, John Marioni, Bing Ren, Wenyi Wang
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  • RECOMB 2021: Padova, Italy (virtual), August 29 – September 1, 2021
    • Program Committee Chair: Jian Peng
    • Organization Committee: Fabio Vandin (co-chair), Jian Ma (co-chair), Matteo Comin, Barbara Di Camillo, Leonardo Pellegrina, Cinzia Pizzi
    • Keynote Speakers: Trey Ideker, Ming Li, Katie Pollard, Aviv Regev, Marie-France Sagot, Mona Singh
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  • RECOMB 2020: Padova, Italy (virtual), June 22-25, 2020
    • Program Committee Chair: Russell Schwartz
    • Organization Committee: Fabio Vandin (chair), Matteo Comin, Barbara Di Camillo, Leonardo Pellegrina, Cinzia Pizzi
    • Keynote Speakers: Manuela Helmer-Citterich, Michal Linial, Satoru Miyano, Pavel Pevzner, Eran Segal, Russ Altman
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  • RECOMB 2019: Washington, DC, United States, May 5-8, 2019
    • Program Committee Chair: Lenore J. Cowen
    • Organization Committee: Max Alekseyev (co-chair), Teresa Przytycka (co-chair), Pavel Avdeyev, Jan Hoinka, Chanson Benjamin, Damian Wojtowicz, Rebecca Sarto Basso, Alexander Hopkins-Ives
    • Keynote Speakers: Carlos D. Bustamante, Rachel Kolodny, Mihai Pop, Franziska Michor, Eytan Ruppin, Alfonso Valencia
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  • RECOMB 2018: Paris, France, April 21-24, 2018
    • Program Committee Chair: Benjamin J. Raphael
    • Organization Committee: Yann Ponty (co-chair), Mireille Regnier (co-chair), Alessandra Carbone, Celine Scornavacca, Eric Tannier, Hélène Touzet, Stéphane Vialette
    • Keynote Speakers: Peter Campbell, Ron Shamir, Sarah Teichmann, Nevan Krogan, Francois Spitz, Tandy Warnow
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  • RECOMB 2017: Hong Kong, May 3-7, 2017
    • Program Committee Chair: S. Cenk Sahinalp
    • Organization Committee: Siu Ming Yiu (chair), Kevin Yip, Alexander Schoenhuth, Paul Medvedev
    • Keynote Speakers: Colin Collins, Joe Gray, Laxmi Parida, Ben Raphael, Michael Schnall-Levin, Jun Wang
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  • RECOMB 2016: Santa Monica, CA, United States, April 17-21, 2016
    • Program Committee Chair: Mona Singh
    • Organization Committee: Eleazar Eskin (chair)
    • Keynote Speakers: Peter S. Kim, Rob Knight, Leonid Kruglyak, Phil Bradley, Teresa Przytycka, Karen Adelman
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  • RECOMB 2015: Warsaw, Poland, April 12-15, 2015
    • Program Committee Chair: Teresa M. Przytycka
    • Organization Committee: Jerzy Tiuryn (cochair), Bartek Wilczyński (co-chair), Paweł Bednarz, Agata Charzyńska, Norbert Dojer, Anna Gambin, Paweł Górecki, Ilona Grabowicz, Julia Herman-Iżycka, Aleksander Jankowski, Agnieszka Mykowiecka, Ewa Szczurek, Irina Tuszyńska, Damian Wójtowicz, Rafał Zaborowski
    • Keynote Speakers: Madan Babu, Bonnie Berger, M. Magda Konarska, Michael Levitt, Bas van Steensel, Wacław Szybalski
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  • RECOMB 2014: Pittsburgh, PA, United States, April 2-5, 2014
    • Program Committee Chair: Roded Sharan
    • Organization Committee: Panayiotis (Takis) Benos (co-chair), Russell Schwartz (co-chair)
    • Keynote Speakers: Ian T. Baldwin, Atul Butte, JJ Collins, Trey Ideker, Tom Mitchell, Sarah A. Tishkoff
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  • RECOMB 2013: Beijing, China, April 7-10, 2013
    • Program Committee Chair: Fengzhu Sun
    • Organization Committee: Xuegong Zhang (co-chair), Minghua Deng (co-chair), Rui Jiang (co-chair), Jin Gu, Jingdong Han, Ruiqiang Li, Xuan Li, Yixue Li, Jingchu Luo, Geng Tian, Xiujie Wang, Peiheng Zhang
    • Keynote Speakers: Scott Fraser, Takashi Gojobori, Deborah Nickerson, Nadia A. Rosenthal, Chung-I Wu, Sunny Xie
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  • RECOMB 2012: Barcelona, Spain, April 21-24, 2012
    • Program Committee Chair: Benny Chor
    • Organization Committee: Rodric Guigo (chair), Josep F Abril, Francisco Cámara, Eduardo Eyras, Pedro Ferreira, Toni Gabaldón, Cédric Notredame, Gabriel Valiente, Blanka Wysocka
    • Keynote Speakers: Richard Durbin, Eileen Furlong, Thomas Gingeras, Alfonso Valencia, Ada E. Yonath
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  • RECOMB 2011: Vancouver, BC, Canada, March 28-31, 2011
    • Program Committee Chair: Vineet Bafna
    • Organization Committee: S. Cenk Sahinalp (chair), Cedric Chauve, Martin Ester, Inanc Birol, Fiona Brinkman, Steven Jones, Anne Condon, Jack Chen, Artem Cherkasov, Colin Collins, Tamon Stephen, Stas Volik, Wyeth Wasserman, Kay Wiese
    • Keynote Speakers: Evan Eichler, Daphne Koller, Marco Marra, Karen Nelson, Elaine Mardis, Joseph Nadeau
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  • RECOMB 2010: Lisbon, Portugal, August 12-15, 2010
    • Program Committee Chair: Bonnie Berger
    • Organization Committee: Arlindo Oliveira (co-chair), Ana Teresa Freitas (co-chair), João Carriço, Alexandre Francisco, Paulo Fonseca, José Pereira Leal, Sara Madeira, Luís Rocha, Sara Silva, Susana Vinga
    • Keynote Speakers: Cecilia Arraiano, David Bartel, Isaac Kohane, Phil Kapranov, Norbert Perrimon, Mona Singh
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  • RECOMB 2009: Tucson, AZ, United States, May 18-21, 2009
    • Program Committee Chair: Serafim Batzoglou
    • Organization Committee: John Kececioglu (chair)
    • Keynote Speakers: Carlos D. Bustamante, Rade Drmanac, Mark Gerstein, Eran Halperin, Michael Hammer, Joanna Mountain, Stephen Quake, Mostafa Ronaghi, Pardis Sabeti, Michael Snyder
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  • RECOMB 2008: Singapore, March 30 - April 2, 2008
    • Program Committee Chair: Martin Vingron
    • Organization Committee: Limsoon Wong (chair), Agnes Ang, Lay Khim Chng, Kwok Pui Choi, Alexia Leong, Hon Wai Leong, Wai Kin Leong, Stefanie Ng, Wing-Kin Sung, Martti Tammi, Siang Yong Yap, Xin Chen, Chee Keong Kwoh, Guillaume Bourque, Alan Christoffels, Dong-Yup Lee, Gunaretnam Rajagopal
    • Keynote Speakers: Edison Liu, Sang Yup Lee, Andrei Lupas, Howard Cedar, Vivian Cheung, Temple F. Smith, Suzanne Cory
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  • RECOMB 2007: Oakland, CA, United States, April 21-25, 2007
    • Program Committee Chair: Terry Speed
    • Organization Committee: Sandrine Dudoit
    • Keynote Speakers: Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Jennifer Marshall Graves, Yishi Jin, Jay D. Keasling, Harry F. Noller, Patrick O. Brown, Abby Dernburg, Aviv Regev
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  • RECOMB 2006: Venice, Italy, April 2-5, 2006
    • Program Committee Chair: Alberto Apostolico
    • Organization Committee: Concettina Guerra (chair), Matteo Comin, Eleazar Eskin, Raffaele Giancarlo, Giuseppe Lancia, Cinzia Pizzi, Angela Visco, Nicola Vitacolonna
    • Keynote Speakers: Anne-Claude Gavin, David Haussler, Ajay Royyuru, David Sankoff, Michael Waterman, Carl Zimmer, Roman Zubarev
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  • RECOMB 2005: Cambridge, MA, United States, May 14-18, 2005
    • Program Committee Chair: Satoru Miyano
    • Organization Committee: Jill P. Mesirov (co-chair), Simon Kasif (co-chair)
    • Keynote Speakers: David Altshuler, Wolfgang Baumeister, James Collins, Charles DeLisi, Jonathan King, Eric Lander, Michael Levine, Susan Lindquist
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  • RECOMB 2004: San Diego, CA, United States, March 27-31, 2004
    • Program Committee Chair: Dan Gusfield
    • Organization Committee: Philip E. Bourne (chair), Kristine Briedis, Apostol Gramada, Stephanie Hagstrom, Nancy Jensen, Dana Jermanis, Chris Smith, Peggy Wagner
    • Keynote Speakers: Carlos D. Bustamante, Russell Doolittle, Andrew Fire, Richard Karp, William McGinnis, Deborah Nickerson, Martin Nowak, Christine Orengo, Elizabeth Winzeler
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  • RECOMB 2003: Berlin, Germany, April 10-14, 2003
    • Program Committee Chair: Webb Miller
    • Organization Committee: Martin Vingron (chair), Patricia Béziat, Alexander Schliep, Rainer Spang, Thomas Steinke
    • Keynote Speakers: Edward Trifonov, Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard, Árpád Furka, Andrew Clark, David Haussler, Arthur Lesk, Dieter Oesterhelt, Terry Speed, Kari Stefansson
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  • RECOMB 2002: Washington, DC, United States, April 18-21, 2002
    • Program Committee Chair: Gene Myers
    • Organization Committee: Sridhar Hannenhalli (chair), Kathy Ambrose, Liliana Florea, George Komatsoulis, Jason Miller, Morgan Park, Michelle Perry, Russell Schwartz, Brian Walenz
    • Keynote Speakers: Ruben Abagyan, Ali Brivanlou, Evan Eichler, Harold Garner, David Ho, Gerry Rubin, Craig Venter, Marc Vidal
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  • RECOMB 2001: Montreal, Canada, April 22-25, 2001
    • Program Committee Chair: Thomas Lengauer
    • Organization Committee: David Sankoff (chair), Nadia El-Mabrouk, Michael Hallett, François Major, Thomas Hagedorn, Theo Mevissen, Louis Pelletier, Ralf Zimmer
    • Keynote Speakers: George Church, Phillip Sharp, Mark Adams, Roger Brent, Franz Lang, Klaus Lindpaintner, Yvonne Martin, Mark Ptashne, Matthias Wilm
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  • RECOMB 2000: Tokyo, Japan, April 8-11, 2000
    • Program Committee Chair: Ron Shamir
    • Organization Committee: Satoru Miyano (chair), Tatsuya Akutsu, Nir Friedman, Osamu Maruyama, Kenta Nakai, Asako Suzuki, Toshihisa Takagi, Ayako Tomiyasu
    • Keynote Speakers: Minoru Kanehisa, Hans Lehrach, Svante Paabo, Eric Davidson, Takashi Gojobori, Leroy Hood, Walter Gilbert, Yusuke Nakamura
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  • RECOMB 1999: Lyon, France, April 11-14, 1999
    • Program Committee Chair: Sorin Istrail
    • Organization Committee: Mireille Regnier (chair), Florence Balax, Daniel Kahn, Gregory Kucherov, Sophie Schbath, Annick Theis-Viémont
    • Keynote Speakers: Peer Bork, Cyrus Chothia, Daniel Cohen, John Moult, Gene Myers, Piotr Slonimski, E. M. Southern, Peter Willett, John Wooley
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  • RECOMB 1998: New York, NY, United States, March 22-25, 1998
    • Program Committee Chair: Pavel Pevzner
    • Organization Committee: Gary Benson (chair), Craig Benham, Martin Farach, Eugene Kolker
    • Keynote Speakers: Ruben Abagyan, Charles Cantor, David Cox, Ron Davis, Klaus Gubernator, Joshua Lederberg, Michael Levitt, David Schwartz, John Yates
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  • RECOMB 1997: Santa Fe, NM, United States, January 20-23, 1997
    • Program Committee Chair: Michael Waterman
    • Organization Committee: Sorin Istrail (chair), Bonnie Berger, Chris Fields, William Hart, Sylvia Spengler
    • Keynote Speakers: David Botstein, Sam Karlin, Martin Karplus, Eric Lander, Robert Lipshutz, Jonathan King, Rich Roberts, Temple Smith, Terry Speed
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