# 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 widely considered as one of two best international conferences in computational biology publishing rigorously peer-reviewed papers, alongside the ISMB conference. 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.
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.
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. Today, it consists of focused meetings covering various specialized aspects of bioinformatics.
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.
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. More recently, RECOMB has also partnered with Genome Research to publish revised version of subset of RECOMB-accepted papers.
The RECOMB Steering Committee currently includes Bonnie Berger (chair), Vineet Bafna, Eleazar Eskin, Jian Ma, Teresa Przytycka, Cenk Sahinalp, Roded Sharan, and Martin Vingron.

## List of conferences

| Conference | 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 | Lyon, France | INRIA |
| RECOMB 2000 | Tokyo, Japan | University of Tokyo |
| RECOMB 2001 | 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 | Cambridge, United States | Broad Institute |
| RECOMB 2006 | Venice, Italy | University of Padua |
| RECOMB 2007 | San Francisco, United States | California Institute for Quantitative Biosciences (QB3) |
| RECOMB 2008 | Singapore | National University of Singapore |
| RECOMB 2009 | Tucson, United States | University of Arizona |
| RECOMB 2010 | Lisbon, Portugal | Instituto Superior Técnico |
| RECOMB 2011 | Vancouver, Canada | Simon Fraser University |
| RECOMB 2012 | Barcelona, Spain | Centre for Genomic Regulation |
| RECOMB 2013 | Beijing, China | Tsinghua University |
| RECOMB 2014 | Pittsburgh, United States | Carnegie Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh |
| RECOMB 2015 | Warsaw, Poland | University of Warsaw |
| RECOMB 2016 | Santa Monica, United States | University of California, Los Angeles |
| RECOMB 2017 | Hong Kong, China | The University of Hong Kong and The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
| RECOMB 2018 | Paris, France | Ecole Polytechnique (Sorbonne University, Jussieu campus) |
| RECOMB 2019 | Washington, D.C., United States | The George Washington University |
| RECOMB 2020 | Padua, Italy | University of Padova |
| RECOMB 2022 | La Jolla, United States | University of California, San Diego |
| RECOMB 2023 | Istanbul, Turkey | Bilkent University |
| RECOMB 2024 | Boston, United States | Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Tufts University |
| RECOMB 2025 | Seoul, South Korea | Seoul National University and Yonsei University |