October 9-11th in Lima, Peru.
In a quarter century bouncing back and forth between Europe and Latin America, SPIRE has never visited Peru, home of some of the world’s best scenery, archaeology and food. It’s time that changed and we look forward to greeting you in Lima in October 2018.SPIRE will take place Tuesday October 9th to Thursday October 11th in Lima, with a StringMasters workshop on Monday October 8th and the 13th Workshop on Compression, Text and Algorithms (WCTA 2018) on Friday October 12th.
As in past editions, the proceedings of SPIRE 2018 will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Limited-time free access to the proceedings is available from here. 
A Best Paper Award (1000eur prize supported by Springer), has been given to the author(s) of the most outstanding work presented at the conference: Efficient Computation of Sequence Mappability, by Alzamel et al.
In addition, SPIRE 2018 will be co-located with the 11th International Conference on Similarity Search and Applications (SISAP 2018), which will run concurrently in the same building so attendees can participate in both.
Welcome to Peru!