String Processing and Information Retrieval 25th International Symposium, SPIRE 2018, Lima, Peru, October 9-11, 2018, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 25th International Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval, SPIRE 2018, held in Lima, Peru, in October 2018. The 22 full papers and 6 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 51 submissions. They focus on fundamental studies on string processing and information retrieval, as well as on computational biology.