<正>RECOMB 2013 was successfully held in Tsinghua University,Beijing,China on April 7–10,2013,hosted by the Bioinformatics Division and Center for Synthetic and Systems Biology,Tsinghua National Laboratory for Information Science and Technology(TNLIST).A total of about 500 professionals from both academia and industry from 29 countries and regions attended the conference and its RECOMB-Seq satellite workshop after the main conference.The RECOMB conference series,with the full name of the Annual International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology,was started in 1997 by Sorin Istrail,Pavel Pevzner and Michael Waterman.The conference aims at bringing together the computational,mathematical,statistical,and biological sciences,and