Algorithms for Computational Biology: Seventh Edition

The papers in this special section were presented at the Seventh International Conference on Algorithms for Computational Biology, AlCoB 2020, held in Missoula, Montana on November 8-11, 2021 merged with AlCoB 2021. The conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Montana and the Institute for Research Development, Training and Advice - IRDTA, Brussels/London. AlCoB 2020 was the seventh event in a series dedicated to promoting and displaying excellent research using string and graph algorithms and combinatorial optimization to deal with problems in biological sequence analysis, genome rearrangement, phylogeny reconstruction, and structure prediction.