August 1996 Discrete Applied Mathematics: Special volume on Computational Molecular Biology Guest Editors: Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner and Ron Shamir List of accepted papers ----------------------- N. Akkiraju and H. Eddelsbrunner "Triangulating the surface of a molecule" J. Atkins and M. Middendorf "On physical mapping and the consecutive ones property for sparse matrices" V. Bafna, B. Narayanan and R. Rav "Nonoverlapping local alignments (weighted independent sets of axis parallel rectangles)" H. L. Bodlaender and B. de Fluiter "On intervalizing k-colored graphs for DNA physical mapping" D. Boneh, C. Dunworth, R. J. Lipton and J. Sgall "On the computational power of DNA" S. Dress, D. Huson and V. Moulton "Analysing and visualizing sequence and distance data ousing splitstree" L. A. Goldberg, P. W. Goldberg, C. A. Phillips, E. Sweedyk and T. Warnow "Minimizing phylogenetic number to find good evolutionary trees" S. Hannenhalli "Polynomial-time algorithm for computing translocation distance between genomes" J. Hein, T. Jiang, L. Wang and K. Zhang "On the complexity of comparing evolutionary trees" D. Kandel, Y. Matias, R. Unger and P. M. Winkler "Shuffling biological sequences" J. MacGregor Smith and B. Toppur "Euclidean Steiner minimal trees, minimum energy configurations, and the embedding problem of weighted graphs in E^3" M. Paterson and T. M. Przytycka "On the complexity of string folding" W. Pearson, G. Robins, D. Wrege and T. Zhang "On the primer selection problem in PCR experiments" C. Phillips and T. Warnow "The asymetric median tree - a new model for building consensus trees" D. Sankoff and J. H. Nadeau "Conserved synteny as a measure of genomic distance" T. D. Schneider and D. N. Mastronarde "Fast multiple alignment of ungapped DNA sequences using information theory and a relaxation method" S. S. Skiena and Chen Ting "Sorting with fixed-length reversals" M. Vingron and M. Waterman "Alignment networks and electrical networks" Z. Zhang, B. He and W. Miller "Local multiple alignment via subgraph enumeration"