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,...