Algorithms in Bioinformatics : First International Workshop WABI 2001 Århus Denmark August 28–31 2001 Proceedings This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics WABI 2001 held in Aarhus Denmark in August 2001. The 23 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from more than 50 submissions. Among the issues addressed are exact and approximate algorithms for genomics sequence analysis gene and signal recognition alignment molecular evolution structure determination or prediction gene expression and gene networks proteomics functional genomics and drug design; methodological topics from algorithmics; high performance approaches to hard computational problems in bioinformatics