Research in Computational Molecular Biology

Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB) is an annual academic conference on the subjects of bioinformatics and computational biology. The conference has been held every year since 1997 and is a major international conference in computational biology, alongside the ISMB and ECCB conferences.^[1] The conference is affiliated with the International Society for Computational Biology. Since the first conference, authors of accepted proceedings papers have been invited to submit a revised version to a special issue of the Journal of Computational Biology.^[2]

Research in Computational Molecular Biology
Frequency	Annually
Location(s)	Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States (2024)
Years active	27
Previous event	RECOMB 2024
Next event	RECOMB 2025
Organised by	Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University
Website	recomb.org

RECOMB was established in 1997 by Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner and Michael Waterman. The first conference was held at the Sandia National Laboratories in Santa Fe, New Mexico.^[3]

A series of RECOMB Satellite meetings was established by Pavel Pevzner in 2001. These meetings cover specialist aspects of bioinformatics, including massively parallel sequencing, comparative genomics, regulatory genomics and bioinformatics education.^[4]

As of RECOMB 2010, the conference has included a highlights track, modelled on the success of a similar track at the ISMB conference. The highlights track contains presentations for computational biology papers published in the previous 18 months.^[3][5]

In 2014 RECOMB and PLOS Computational Biology coordinated to let authors submit papers in parallel to both conference and journal. Papers not selected for publication in PLOS Computational Biology were published in edited form in the Journal of Computational Biology as usual.^[3][6]

As of 2016 the conference started a partnership with Cell Systems. Each year, a subset of work accepted at RECOMB is also considered for publication in a special issue of Cell Systems devoted to RECOMB. Other RECOMB papers are invited for a short synopsis (Cell Systems Calls) in the same issue.

RECOMB steering committee is chaired by Bonnie Berger.

List of conferences

Conference[3]	Location	Hosting institution
RECOMB 1997	Santa Fe, United States	Sandia National Laboratories
RECOMB 1998	New York City, United States	Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
RECOMB 1999[7]	Lyon, France	INRIA
RECOMB 2000[8]	Tokyo, Japan	University of Tokyo
RECOMB 2001[9]	Montreal, Canada	Université de Montréal
RECOMB 2002	Washington, D.C., United States	Celera Corporation
RECOMB 2003	Berlin, Germany	Federal Ministry of Education and Research
RECOMB 2004	San Diego, United States	University of California, San Diego
RECOMB 2005[10]	Cambridge, United States	Broad Institute
RECOMB 2006	Venice, Italy	University of Padua
RECOMB 2007[11]	San Francisco, United States	California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3)
RECOMB 2008[12]	Singapore	National University of Singapore
RECOMB 2009[13]	Tucson, United States	University of Arizona
RECOMB 2010[14]	Lisbon, Portugal	Instituto Superior Técnico
RECOMB 2011[15]	Vancouver, Canada	Simon Fraser University
RECOMB 2012[16]	Barcelona, Spain	Centre for Genomic Regulation
RECOMB 2013[17]	Beijing, China	Tsinghua University
RECOMB 2014[18]	Pittsburgh, United States	Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh
RECOMB 2015[19]	Warsaw, Poland	University of Warsaw
RECOMB 2016[20]	Santa Monica, United States	University of California, Los Angeles
RECOMB 2017[21]	Hong Kong, China	The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong
RECOMB 2018[22]	Paris, France	Ecole Polytechnique (Sorbonne University, Jussieu campus)
RECOMB 2019[23]	Washington, D.C., United States	The George Washington University
RECOMB 2020[24]	Padua, Italy	University of Padova
RECOMB 2022[25]	La Jolla, United States	University of California, San Diego
RECOMB 2023[26]	Istanbul, Turkey	Bilkent University
RECOMB 2024[27]	Boston, United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University

See also

• Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology (ISMB)

References

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19. "RECOMB 2015". Retrieved 8 August 2014.
20. "RECOMB 2016". Retrieved 19 June 2015.
21. "RECOMB 2017 - May 3-7". Retrieved 25 April 2017.
22. "RECOMB 2018 - April 21-24".
23. "RECOMB 2019 - May 05-08".
24. "RECOMB 2020 - May 10-13".
25. "RECOMB 2022 - May 22-25".
26. "RECOMB 2023 - April 16-19".
27. "RECOMB 2024 - April 16-19".