Comparative Genomics: RECOMB 2004 International Workshop, RCG 2004, Bertinoro, Italy, October 16-19, 2004, Revised Selected Papers

The RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics (RECOMB-CG) is a forum on all aspects and components of Comparative Genomics ranging from new quantitative discoveries about genome structures and processes to theorems on the complexity of computational problems inspired by genome comparison. Due to the interdiciplinary nature of the workshop, papers could be submitted merely for presentation at the workshop or for presentation at the workshop and publication in the proceedings. Speakers presenting papers of the former category are listed under Selected Presentations below. The workshop was a great success scienti?cally as well as socially. I want to thank all participants, the members of the program committee as well as referees and, especially, the excellent invited speakers. October 2004 Jens Lagergren Invited Speakers Mathieu Blanchette (McGill University, Canada) Daniela Delneri (University of Manchester, UK) Henrik Kaessmann (Universit¿ e de Lausanne, Switzerland) Martin Lercher (University of Bath, UK) Bill Martin (Heinrich-Heine Universit¿ at, Germany) Ben Raphael (UCSD, USA) Marie-France Sagot (Universit¿ e Lyon I, France) Graziano Pesole (University of Milan, Italy) Selected Presentations Ali Bashir (UCSD, USA) Inna Dubchak (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA) Dannie Durand (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Ron Y.