SPIRE'2001 is a Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval which is in its eighth edition. The first four editions focused primarily on string processing and originated in South America, and were called WSP (South American Workshop on String Processing). They were held in Belo Horizonte, Brazil (1993), Valparaíso, Chile (1995 and 1997), and Recife, Brazil (1996).

Starting in 1998, at Santa Cruz, Bolivia, the focus of the workshop was broadened to include the area of information retrieval due to its increasing relevance and its inter-relationship with the area of string processing.

SPIRE'99, at Cancún, Mexico, and SPIRE'2000, at A Coruña, Spain, have continued this trend including also the area of DNA computing, with several papers and invited talks on this topic. For SPIRE'2001 we expect to have contributions from several related communities.

The SPIRE'2001 symposium aims at facilitating the potential benefits of cross- fertilization between different fields. As such, it offers a singular opportunity for researchers interested in working with problems related to these areas. As in the past, the proceedings of SPIRE'2001 will be published by IEEE CS Press.

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