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.

Casper Branner (ca.1729-ca.1792) emigrated from southern Germany or possibly eastern Switzerland, and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia probably about 1750. He married Catherine and they had eight children. Descendants and relatives lived in Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Ohio, Illinois and elsewhere.