Open combinatorial problems in computational molecular biology

In the last few years theoretical computer scientists have found new challenges in computational molecular biology. We discuss recent advances and present some open combinatorial problems in different areas of computational molecular biology such as genome rearrangements, DNA physical mapping, DNA sequencing and sequence comparison.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">></ETX>