The present volume is dedicated to aspects of algorithmic work in
bioinformatics and computational biology with an emphasis on string
algorithms that play a central role in the analysis of biological
sequences. The papers included are a selection of articles
corresponding to talks given at one of two meetings sponsored by The
Royal Society, the UK's national academy of science, under grant
no.: JEB/KOREAN Networks/16715. The grant supported two workshops
organised by researches from the Seoul National University (Korea)
and King's College London (UK). The first workshop was held in
Seoul, Korea, in July 2004 and the second meeting took place in
London, UK, in February 2005 as part of the annual London
Stringology Days.