Section: New Results

General comments

We present in this section the main results obtained in 2017.

We tried to organise these following the six main axes of research of the team. Clearly, in some cases, a result obtained overlaps more than one axis. In such case, we chose the one that could be seen as the main one concerned by such results.

We did not indicate here the results on more theoretical aspects of computer science if it did not seem for now that they could be relevant in contexts related to computational biology. Actually, we do believe those on scheduling [25], [24], and on text [37], graph [4], [32], [34], [5], [36], [35] or general algorithmic problems notably related to performance issues [23], [28] could in the future become more specifically relevant for life sciences (biology or ecology). We did not indicate either work that was done a few years ago by members who were in ERABLE but whose associated publication appeared only this year [27].

Notice that the theoretical results related to problems closely resembling questions that have already been addressed by us in computational biology and that we present below concern not only cross-fertilising issues among different computational approaches, and we therefore extended the title of this axis for the purpose of presenting such results, for now purely theoretical.

A few other results of 2017 are not mentioned in this report, not because the corresponding work is not important, but because it was likewise more specialised, or the work represented a survey.