Algorithms and Applications, Essays Dedicated to Esko Ukkonen on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday

String Rearrangement Metrics: A Survey.- Maximal Words in Sequence Comparisons Based on Subword Composition.- Fast Intersection Algorithms for Sorted Sequences.- Indexing and Searching a Mass Spectrometry Database.- Extended Compact Web Graph Representations.- A Parallel Algorithm for Fixed-Length Approximate String-Matching with k-mismatches.- Covering Analysis of the Greedy Algorithm for Partial Cover.- From Nondeterministic Suffix Automaton to Lazy Suffix Tree.- Clustering the Normalized Compression Distance for Influenza Virus Data.- An Evolutionary Model of DNA Substring Distribution.- Indexing a Dictionary for Subset Matching Queries.- Transposition and Time-Scale Invariant Geometric Music Retrieval.- Unified View of Backward Backtracking in Short Read Mapping.- Some Applications of String Algorithms in Human-Computer Interaction.- Approximate String Matching with Reduced Alphabet.- ICT4D: A Computer Science Perspective.- Searching for Linear Dependencies between Heart Magnetic Resonance Images and Lipid Profiles.- The Support Vector Tree.