RECOMB 2026 Proceedings
Thessaloniki, Greece, May 26 - 29, 2026.
PC Chair: Rayan Chikhi, Institut Pasteur
Organization Committee: Christos Ouzounis (chair), Ezgi Ebren
Keynote Speakers:
List of Publications
- Quartet-based species tree methods enable fast and consistent tree of blobs reconstruction under the network multispecies coalescent. Junyan Dai, Yunheng Han, Erin Molloy.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.05.686850
- Fast and Flexible Flow Decompositions in General Graphs via Dominators. Francisco Sena and Alexandru I. Tomescu.
- Preprint: arXiv:2511.19153
- Predicting interaction-specific protein–protein interaction perturbations by missense variants with MutPred-PPI. Ross Stewart, Florent Laval, Michael Calderwood, Matthew Mort, David Cooper, Marc Vidal, Predrag Radivojac.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.12.20.695738
- KuPID: Kmer-based Upstream Preprocessing of Long Reads for Isoform Discovery. Molly Borowiak and Yun William Yu.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.12.05.692400
- Private Information Leakage from Polygenic Risk Scores. Kirill Nikitin and Gamze Gursoy.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.16.706191
- Privacy-Preserving Pangenome Graphs. Jacob Blindenbach, Shaunak Soni, Gamze Gursoy.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.16.706152
- ProtFlow: Flow Matching-based Protein Sequence Design with Comprehensive Protein Semantic Distribution Learning and High-quality Generation. Zitai Kong, Yiheng Zhu, Yinlong Xu, Mingze Yin, Tingjun Hou, Jian Wu, Hongxia Xu, Chang-Yu Hsieh.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.14.705870
- POTTR: Identifying Recurrent Trajectories in Evolutionary and Developmental Processes using Posets. Sara C. Käufler, Henri Schmidt, Martin Jürgens, Gunnar W. Klau, Palash Sashittal, Benjamin J. Raphael.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.707960
- SpecLig: Energy-Guided Hierarchical Model for Target-Specific 3D Ligand Design. Peidong Zhang, Rong Han, Xiangzhe Kong, Ting Chen, Jianzhu Ma.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.06.687093
- STELAR-X: Scaling Coalescent-Based Species Tree Inference to 100,000 Species and Beyond. Anik Saha and Md Shamsuzzoha Bayzid.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.22.689894
- A Cophylogenetic Approach for Virus-Host Interaction Prediction. Md Zarzees Uddin Shah Chowdhury, T. M. Murali, Palash Sashittal.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.26.708038
- Denoising single-cell transcriptomic data with sparse PCA. Victor Chardès.
- Preprint: arXiv:2509.15429
- Prediction of lifetime disease liability from EHR features. Yazheng Di and Na Cai.
- Preprint: medRxiv 2026.02.15.26346336
- Quantum and Temporal Graph Neural Networks Reveal New Accuracy Limits in Predicting Protein–Ligand Dissociation Kinetics. Azamat Salamatov and Gowtham Atluri.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.20.689635
- MaxGeomHash: An Algorithm for Variable-Size Random Sampling of Distinct Elements. Mahmudur Rahman Hera, David Koslicki, Conrado Martínez.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.11.687920
- Evolutionary dynamics under phenotypic uncertainty. Vaibhav Mohanty, Anna Sappington, Eugene Shakhnovich, Bonnie Berger.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.15.711953
- Deconvolving Phylogenetic Distance Mixtures. Shayesteh Arasti, Ali Osman Berk Şapcı, Eleonora Rachtman, Mohammed El-Kebir, Siavash Mirarab.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.01.18.700179
- Achieving spatial multi-omics integration from unaligned serial sections with DIME. Pengyu Sun, Tian Mou, Xubin Zheng, Xinlei Huang.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.707961
- Deep genomic models of allele-specific measurements. Xinming Tu, Alexander Sasse, Kaitavjeet Chowdhary, Anna E. Spiro, Liang Yang, Maria Chikina, Christophe O. Benoist, Sara Mostafavi.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.04.09.648060
- On Deriving Synteny Blocks by Compacting Elements. Leonard Bohnenkämper, Luca Parmigiani, Cedric Chauve, Jens Stoye.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.12.15.694404
- PaNDA: Efficient Optimization of Phylogenetic Diversity in Networks. Niels Holtgrefe, Leo van Iersel, Ruben Meuwese, Yukihiro Murakami, Jannik Schestag.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.14.688467
- Information Geometry Reconciles Discrete and Continuous Variation in Single-Cell and Spatial Transcriptomic Analysis. Jinpu Cai, Yuxuan Wang, Yunhao Qiao, Cheng Wang, Ziqi Rong, Luting Zhou, Haoyang Liu, Meng Jiang, Hongbin Shen, Jingyi Jessica Li, Hongyi Xin.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.707866
- Bacterial protein function prediction via multimodal deep learning. Giulia Muzio, Michael Adamer, Leyden Fernandez, Lukas Miklautz, Karsten Borgwardt, Kemal Avican.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2024.10.30.621035
- Alternet: Alternative splicing-aware gene regulatory network inference. Juliane Hoffmann, Julia Wallnig, Ziheng Dai, Olga Tsoy, David B. Blumenthal, Anne Hartebrodt.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.21.689745
- Bias in genome-wide association test statistics due to omitted interactions. Burak Yelmen, Merve Nur Güler, Tõnu Kollo, Märt Möls, Guillaume Charpiat, Flora Jay.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.21.689603
- Joint Learning of Drug-Drug Combination and Drug-Drug Interaction via Coupled Tensor-Tensor Factorization with Side Information. Xiaoge Zhang, Zhengyu Fang, Kaiyu Tang, Huiyuan Chen, Jing Li.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.13.705792
- Sequence-to-graph alignment based copy number calling using a network flow formulation. Hugo Magalhães, Jonas Weber, Gunnar W. Klau, Tobias Marschall, Timofey Prodanov.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.21.689771
- Fast, accurate construction of multiple sequence alignments from protein language embeddings. Minh Hoang, Isabel Armour-Garb, Mona Singh.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.01.02.697423
- SLAB: A Sweep Line Algorithm in PBWT for Finding Haplotype Block Cores. Ardalan Naseri, Ahsan Sanaullah, Shaojie Zhang, Degui Zhi.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.16.712201
- Compressed inverted indexes for scalable sequence similarity. Florian Ingels, Lea Vandamme, Mathilde Girard, Clément Agret, Bastien Cazaux, Antoine Limasset.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.21.689685
- Minimizer Density revisited: Models and Multiminimizers. Florian Ingels, Lucas Robidou, Igor Martayan, Camille Marchet, Antoine Limasset.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.21.689688
- DiCoLo: Integration-free and cluster-free detection of localized differential gene co-expression in single-cell data. Ruiqi Li, Junchen Yang, Pei-Chun Su, Ariel Jaffe, Ofir Lindenbaum, Yuval Kluger.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.23.689932
- bronko: ultrarapid, alignment-free detection of viral genome variation. Ryan Doughty, Michael Tisza, Todd Treangen.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.12.01.691650
- Arborist: Prioritizing Bulk DNA Inferred Tumor Phylogenies via Low-pass Single-cell DNA Sequencing Data. Leah Weber, Chi Yin Ching, Chrisopher Ly, Yixiao Cheng, Chunxu Gao, Peter Van Loo.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.26.707773
- Causal gene regulatory network inference from Perturb-seq via adaptive instrumental variable modeling. Zhongxuan Sun, Hyunseung Kang, Sunduz Keles.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.18.706642
- Summarizing RNA Structural Ensembles via Maximum Agreement Secondary Structures. Xinyu Gu, Stefan Ivanovic, Daniel Feng, Mohammed El-Kebir.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.708069
- CAMP: Coreset Accelerated Metacell Partitioning enables scalable analysis of single-cell data. Danrong Li, Young Kun Ko, Stefan Canzar.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.12.11.693725
- Multi-modal tissue-aware graph neural network for in silico genetic discovery. Anusha Aggarwal, Ksenia Sokolova, Olga Troyanskaya.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.17.706433
- CLADES — Contrastive Learning Augmented DifferEntial Splicing with Orthologous Positive Pairs. Arghamitra Talukder, Nicholas Keung, Itsik Pe’Er, David A. Knowles.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.20.707118
- MOSAIC: A Spectral Framework for Integrative Phenotypic Characterization Using Population-Level Single-Cell Multi-Omics. Chang Lu, Yuval Kluger, Rong Ma.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.10.705077
- GOPHER: Optimization-based Phenotype Randomization for Genome-Wide Association Studies with Differential Privacy. Anupama Nandi, Seth Neel, Hyunghoon Cho.
- Preprint: arXiv:2512.04225
- Identifying Robust Subclonal Structures Through Tumor Progression Tree Alignment. Chih Hao Wu, Jacob Gilbert, Salem Malikić, S. Cenk Sahinalp.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.708046
- DeltaNMF: A Two-Stage Neural NMF for Differential Gene Program Discovery. Anish Karpurapu, Charles Gersbach, Rohit Singh.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.01.22.701049
- Transforming Biological Foundation Model Representations for Out-of-Distribution Data. Aditya Pratapa, Rohit Singh, Purushothama Rao Tata.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.20.689462
- A biobank-scale method for learning environmental modulators of gene–environment interaction underlying complex traits. Zhengtong Liu, Arush Ramteke, Aakarsh Anand, Aditya Gorla, Moonseong Jeong, Sriram Sankararaman.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.13.711725
- Integrative Inference of Spatially Informed Cell Lineage Trees using LineageMap. Xinhai Pan, Yiru Chen, Xiuwei Zhang.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.01.19.700383
- Uncertainty-aware synthetic lethality prediction with pretrained foundation models. Kailey Hua, Ellie Haber, Jian Ma.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.708096
- Evolutionary profile enhancement improves protein function annotation. Shitong Dai, Jiaqi Luo, Yunan Luo.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.03.709280
- Faster and Scalable Parallel External-Memory Construction of Colored Compacted de Bruijn Graphs with Cuttlefish 3. Jamshed Khan, Laxman Dhulipala, Prashant Pandey, Rob Patro.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.02.02.636161
- Nullstrap-DE: A General Framework for Calibrating FDR and Preserving Power in Differential Expression Methods, with Applications to DESeq2 and edgeR. Chenxin Flora Jiang, Changhu Wang, Jingyi Jessica Li.
- Preprint: arXiv:2507.20598
- Gene-First Identity Construction for Robust Cell Identification in Single-Cell Transcriptomics. Luqi Yang, Zhenwei Huang, Hongyi Xin, Jinpu Cai.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.25.707869
- scDesignPop generates population-scale single-cell RNA-seq data for power analysis, method benchmarking, and privacy protection. Chris Dong, Yihui Cen, Dongyuan Song, Jingyi Jessica Li.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.23.707578
- Error Correction Algorithms for Efficient Gene Quantification in Single Cell Transcriptomics. Jens Zentgraf, Johanna Schmitz, Andreas Keller, Sven Rahmann.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.27.690682
- CycleGRN: Inferring Gene Regulatory Networks from Cyclic Flow Dynamics in Single-Cell RNA-seq. Wenjun Zhao, Elana Fertig, Genevieve Stein-O’Brien.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.12.688126
- Protein Compositional Ratio Representation (PCRR) Systematically Improves Human Disease Prediction. Adithya Madduri, Randall Ellis, Chirag Patel.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.29.691286
- Constrained diffusion as a paradigm for evolution. Daniel Lazarev, Anna Sappington, Grant Chau, Ruochi Zhang, Bonnie Berger.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.10.710948
- Integrative Multi‑Scale Sequence–Structure Modeling for Antimicrobial Peptide Prediction and Design. Jiayi Li, Yanruisheng Shao, Yu Li, Qinze Yu.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.24.707610
- Integrating morphology and gene expression in unpaired single-cell data using GeoAdvAE. Jinqiu Du, Kevin Z. Lin.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.19.689368
- Deconvolving mutation effects on protein stability and function with disentangled protein language models. Kerr Ding, Ziang Li, Tony Tu, Jiaqi Luo, Yunan Luo.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.03.703560
- Fast and accurate resolution of ecDNA sequence using Cycle-Extractor. Mahsa Faizrahnemoon, Jens Luebeck, King L. Hung, Suhas Rao, Matthew G. Jones, Paul S. Mischel, Howard Y. Chang, Kaiyuan Zhu, Vineet Bafna.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.10.710955
- pHapCompass: Probabilistic Assembly and Uncertainty Quantification of Polyploid Haplotype Phase. Marjan Hosseini, Ella Veiner, Thomas Bergendahl, Tala Yasenpoor, Zane Smith, Margaret Staton, Derek Aguiar.
- Preprint: arXiv:2512.04393
- scProfiterole: Clustering of Single-Cell Proteomic Data Using Graph Contrastive Learning via Spectral Filters. Mustafa Coşkun, Filipa Blasco Lopes, Pınar Kubilay Tolunay, Mark R. Chance, Mehmet Koyutürk.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.02.26.708196
- Generating Hybrid Proteins with the MSA-Transformer. Sanjana Tule, Samuel Davis, Ivan Koludarov, Ariane Mora, Mikael Boden.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2025.11.20.689447
- Modeling Multi-Modal Brain Connectomes for Brain Disorder Diagnosis via Graph Diffusion Optimal Transport Network. Xiaoqi Sheng, Jiawen Liu, Jiaming Liang, Yiheng Zhang, Sankar Mondal, Yutong Li, Tinghe Zhang, Bing Liu, Jiangning Song, Hongmin Cai.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.05.709693
- Multimodal spatial alignment and morphology mapping with MOSAICField. Xinhao Liu, Hongyu Zheng, Peter Halmos, Julian Gold, Erik Storrs, Li Ding, Ben Raphael.
- Preprint: bioRxiv 2026.03.10.710931