Computing Similarity between RNA Strings / Vineet Bafna, S. Muthukrishnan and R. Ravi -- Of Chicken Teeth and Mouse Eyes, or Generalized Character Compatibility / Craig Benham, Sampath Kannan and Tandy Warnow -- Efficient String Matching on Coded Texts / Dany Breslauer and Leszek Gasieniec -- Fast Approximate Matching using Suffix Trees / Archie L. Cobbs -- Common Subsequences and Supersequences and Their Expected Length / Vlado Dancik -- Pattern Matching in Directed Graphs / Jianghai Fu -- Constant-Space String Matching with Smaller Number of Comparisons: Sequential Sampling / Leszek Gasieniec, Wojciech Plandowski and Wojciech Rytter -- Multi-Dimensional Pattern Matching with Dimensional Wildcards / Raffaele Giancarlo and Roberto Grossi -- Minimizing Phylogenetic Number to Find Good Evolutionary Trees / Leslie Ann Goldberg, Paul W. Goldberg, Cynthia A. Phillips, Elizabeth Sweedyk and Tandy Warnow.