{
  "title": "1st Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology",
  "location": "Santa Fe, NM, United States",
  "dates": "January 20 - 23, 1997",
  "pc_chair": "Michael Waterman",
  "organization_committee": "Sorin Istrail (chair), Bonnie Berger, Chris Fields, William Hart, Sylvia Spengler",
  "keynotes": "Rich Roberts, Eric Lander, Robert Lipshutz, David Botstein, Sam Karlin, Martin Karplus, Jonathan King, Temple Smith, Terry Speed",
  "website": "https://recomb.org/recomb1997",
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      "author": "Richa Agarwala, Serafim Batzoglou, Vlado Dančík, Scott E. Decatur, Martin Farach, Sridhar Hannenhalli, S. Muthukrishnan, Steven Skiena",
      "title": "Local rules for protein folding on a triangular lattice and generalized hydrophobicity in the HP model",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 1–2. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "1–2",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267522",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Local Rules for Protein Folding on a Triangular Lattice and Generalized Hydrophobicity in the HP Model",
      "journal_authors": "Richa Agarwala, Serafim Batzoglou, Vlado Dančík, Scott E. Decatur, Sridhar Hannenhalli, Martin Farach-Colton, S. Muthukrishnan, Steven Skiena",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 275-296",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.275"
    },
    {
      "author": "Tatsuya Akutsu, Satoru Miyano",
      "title": "On the approximation of protein threading",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 3–8. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "3–8",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267523",
      "journal": "Theoretical Computer Science",
      "journal_title": "On the approximation of protein threading",
      "journal_authors": "Tatsuya Akutsu, Satoru Miyano",
      "journal_issue_pages": "210(2): 261-275",
      "journal_year": "1999",
      "journal_doi": "10.1016/s0304-3975(98)00089-9"
    },
    {
      "author": "Eric L. Anson, Eugene W. Myers",
      "title": "ReAligner: a program for refining DNA sequence multi-alignments",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 9–16. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "9–16",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267524",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "ReAligner: A Program for Refining DNA Sequence Multi-Alignments",
      "journal_authors": "Eric L. Anson, Eugene W. Myers",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 369-383",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.369"
    },
    {
      "author": "Amir Ben-Dor, Benny Chor",
      "title": "On constructing radiation hybrid maps",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 17–26. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "17–26",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267525",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "On Constructing Radiation Hybrid Maps",
      "journal_authors": "Amir Ben‐Dor, Benny Chor",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 517-533",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.517"
    },
    {
      "author": "Gary Benson",
      "title": "Sequence alignment with tandem duplication",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 27–36. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "27–36",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267526",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Sequence Alignment with Tandem Duplication",
      "journal_authors": "Gary Benson",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 351-367",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.351"
    },
    {
      "author": "Bonnie Berger, Mona Singh",
      "title": "An iterative method for improved protein structural motif recognition",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 37–46. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "37–46",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267527",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "An Iterative Method for Improved Protein Structural Motif Recognition",
      "journal_authors": "Bonnie Berger, Mona Singh",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 261-273",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.261"
    },
    {
      "author": "Erich Bornberg-Bauer",
      "title": "Chain growth algorithms for HP-type lattice proteins",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 47–55. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "47–55",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267528"
    },
    {
      "author": "J. Richard Bradley, Steven S. Skiena",
      "title": "Fabricating arrays of strings",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 57–66. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "57–66",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267529"
    },
    {
      "author": "Weiping Cai, Anne E. Condon, Robert M. Corn, Elton Glaser, Zhengdong Fei, Tony Frutos, Zhen Guo, Max G. Lagally, Qinghua Liu, Lloyd M. Smith, Andrew Thiel",
      "title": "The power of surface-based DNA computation",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 67–74. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "67–74",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267530"
    },
    {
      "author": "Alberto Caprara",
      "title": "Sorting by reversals is difficult",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 75–83. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "75–83",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267531"
    },
    {
      "author": "Thomas Christof, Michael Jünger, John Kececioglu, Petra Mutzel, Gerhard Reinelt",
      "title": "A branch-and-cut approach to physical mapping with end-probes",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 84–92. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "84–92",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267532",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "A Branch-and-Cut Approach to Physical Mapping of Chromosomes by Unique End-Probes",
      "journal_authors": "Thomas Christof, Michael Jünger, John Kececioglu, Petra Mutzel, Gerhard Reinelt",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 433-447",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.433"
    },
    {
      "author": "Gary A. Churchill",
      "title": "Monte Carlo sequence alignment",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 93–97. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "93–97",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267534"
    },
    {
      "author": "Jaime Cohen, Martin Farach",
      "title": "Numerical taxonomy on data: experimental results",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 98. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "98",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267535",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Numerical Taxonomy on Data: Experimental Results",
      "journal_authors": "Jaime Cohen, Martı́n Farach-Colton",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 547-558",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.547"
    },
    {
      "author": "B. DasGupta, T. Jiang, S. Kannan, M. Li, Z. Sweedyk",
      "title": "On the complexity and approximation of syntenic distance",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 99–108. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "99–108",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267536",
      "journal": "Discrete Applied Mathematics",
      "journal_title": "On the complexity and approximation of syntenic distance",
      "journal_authors": "Bhaskar Dasgupta, Tao Jiang, Sampath Kannan, Ming Li, Elizabeth Sweedyk",
      "journal_issue_pages": "88(1-3): 59-82",
      "journal_year": "1998",
      "journal_doi": "10.1016/s0166-218x(98)00066-3"
    },
    {
      "author": "Ken A. Dill, Andrew T. Phillips, J. Ben Rosen",
      "title": "Protein structure prediction and potential energy landscape analysis using continuous global minimization",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 109–117. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "109–117",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267537",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Protein Structure and Energy Landscape Dependence on Sequence Using a Continuous Energy Function",
      "journal_authors": "Ken A. Dill, Andrew T. Phillips, J. Ben Rosen",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 227-239",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.227"
    },
    {
      "author": "Daniel P. Fasulo, Tao Jiang, Richard M. Karp, Reuben Settergren, Edward C. Thayer",
      "title": "An algorithmic approach to multiple complete digest mapping",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 118–127. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "118–127",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267538",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "An Algorithmic Approach to Multiple Complete Digest Mapping",
      "journal_authors": "Daniel Fasulo, Tao Jiang, Richard M. Karp, Reuben Settergren, Edward C. Thayer",
      "journal_issue_pages": "6(2): 187-207",
      "journal_year": "1999",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1999.6.187"
    },
    {
      "author": "William E. Hart",
      "title": "On the computational complexity of sequence design problems",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 128–136. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "128–136",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267539"
    },
    {
      "author": "William E. Hart, Sorin Istrail",
      "title": "Lattice and off-lattice side chain models of protein folding: linear time structure prediction better than 86% of optimal",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 137–146. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "137–146",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267540",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Lattice and Off-Lattice Side Chain Models of Protein Folding: Linear Time Structure Prediction Better than 86% of Optimal",
      "journal_authors": "William E. Hart, Sorin Istrail",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 241-259",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.241"
    },
    {
      "author": "Simon C. Heath",
      "title": "The application of Markov chain Monte Carlo methods to radiation hybrid mapping",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 147–150. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "147–150",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267541",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Markov Chain Monte Carlo Methods for Radiation Hybrid Mapping",
      "journal_authors": "Simon C. Heath",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 505-515",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.505"
    },
    {
      "author": "Mudita Jain, Eugene W. Myers",
      "title": "Algorithms for computing and integrating physical maps using unique probes",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 151–161. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "151–161",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267542",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Algorithms for Computing and Integrating Physical Maps Using Unique Probes",
      "journal_authors": "Mudita Jain, Eugene W. Myers",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 449-466",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.449"
    },
    {
      "author": "Tao Jiang, Richard M. Karp",
      "title": "Mapping clones with a given ordering or interleaving",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 162. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "162",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267543",
      "journal": "Algorithmica",
      "journal_title": "Mapping Clones with a Given Ordering or Interleaving",
      "journal_authors": "Tao Jiang, Richard M. Karp",
      "journal_issue_pages": "21(3): 262-284",
      "journal_year": "1998",
      "journal_doi": "10.1007/pl00009215"
    },
    {
      "author": "Haim Kaplan, Ron Shamir, Robert E. Tarjan",
      "title": "Faster and simpler algorithm for sorting signed permutations by reversals",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 163. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "163",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267544",
      "journal": "SIAM Journal on Computing",
      "journal_title": "A Faster and Simpler Algorithm for Sorting Signed Permutations by Reversals",
      "journal_authors": "Haim Kaplan, Ron Shamir, Robert E. Tarjan",
      "journal_issue_pages": "29(3): 880-892",
      "journal_year": "2000",
      "journal_doi": "10.1137/s0097539798334207"
    },
    {
      "author": "George A. Komatsoulis, Michael S. Waterman",
      "title": "Chimeric alignment by dynamic programming: algorithm and biological uses",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 174–180. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "174–180",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267546",
      "journal": "Applied and Environmental Microbiology",
      "journal_title": "A new computational method for detection of chimeric 16S rRNA artifacts generated by PCR amplification from mixed bacterial populations",
      "journal_authors": "George A. Komatsoulis, Michael S. Waterman",
      "journal_issue_pages": "63(6): 2338-2346",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1128/aem.63.6.2338-2346.1997"
    },
    {
      "author": "Hans-Peter Lenhof",
      "title": "New contact measures for the protein docking problem",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 182–191. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "182–191",
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    },
    {
      "author": "Shili Lin, Terence P. Speed",
      "title": "An algorithm for haplotype analysis",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 192–200. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "192–200",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267548",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "An Algorithm for Haplotype Analysis",
      "journal_authors": "Shili Lin, Terence P. Speed",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(4): 535-546",
      "journal_year": "1997",
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    {
      "author": "Hiroshi Mamitsuka",
      "title": "Supervised learning of hidden Markov models for sequence discrimination",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 202–208. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "202–208",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267551",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "A Learning Method of Hidden Markov Models for Sequence Discrimination",
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    {
      "author": "S. Muthukrishnan, Laxmi Parida",
      "title": "Towards constructing physical maps by optical mapping: an effective, simple, combinatorial approach",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 209–219. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "209–219",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267552"
    },
    {
      "author": "Gene Myers, Sanford Selznick, Zheng Zhang, Webb Miller",
      "title": "Progressive multiple alignment with constraints",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 220–225. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "220–225",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267758",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Progressive Multiple Alignment with Constraints",
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    {
      "author": "Mitsunori Ogihara, Animesh Ray",
      "title": "Simulating Boolean circuits on a DNA computer",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 226–231. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "226–231",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267759",
      "journal": "Algorithmica",
      "journal_title": "Simulating Boolean Circuits on a DNA Computer",
      "journal_authors": "Mitsunori Ogihara, Animesh Ray",
      "journal_issue_pages": "25(2-3): 239-250",
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    },
    {
      "author": "Martin G. Reese, Frank H. Eeckman, David Kulp, David Haussler",
      "title": "Improved splice site detection in Genie",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 232–240. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "232–240",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267766",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Improved Splice Site Detection in Genie",
      "journal_authors": "Martin G. Reese, Frank H. Eeckman, David Kulp, David Haussler",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 311-323",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.311"
    },
    {
      "author": "K. Reinert, H.-P. Lenhof, P. Mutzel, K. Mehlhorn, J. D. Kececioglu",
      "title": "A branch-and-cut algorithm for multiple sequence alignment",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 241–250. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "241–250",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267845"
    },
    {
      "author": "David B. Wilson, David S. Greenberg, Cynthia A. Phillips",
      "title": "Beyond islands: runs in clone-probe matrices",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 320–329. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "320–329",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267891"
    },
    {
      "author": "Ying Xu, Edward C. Uberbacher",
      "title": "Reference-based gene model prediction on DNA contigs",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 330–336. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "330–336",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267892"
    },
    {
      "author": "Zheng Zhang, William R. Pearson, Webb Miller",
      "title": "Aligning a DNA sequence with a protein sequence",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 337–343. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "337–343",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267893",
      "journal": "Journal of Computational Biology",
      "journal_title": "Aligning a DNA Sequence with a Protein Sequence",
      "journal_authors": "Zheng Zhang, William R. Pearson, Webb Miller",
      "journal_issue_pages": "4(3): 339-349",
      "journal_year": "1997",
      "journal_doi": "10.1089/cmb.1997.4.339"
    },
    {
      "author": "Ralf Zimmer, Thomas Lengauer",
      "title": "Fast and numerically stable parametric alignment of biosequences",
      "proceedings_name": "Research in Computational Molecular Biology. RECOMB 1997, pp 344–353. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA.",
      "proceedings_pages": "344–353",
      "proceedings_doi": "10.1145/267521.267894"
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