[hpc-announce] Special Session on Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology

Fri Jul 19 07:17:36 CDT 2013

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<br>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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<br>******************************<WBR>******************************<WBR>******************<br>Special  
Session  
on Advances in High-Performance<br>Bioinformatics, Systems and  
Synthetic Biology<br>
<br>of the 22nd Euromicro International Conference on<br>Parallel  
Distributed and Network-base Processing<br>
<br>12-14 February 2014  Turin, Italy<br><a  
href="http://www.pdp2014.org/specialsessions/bio/"  
target="_blank">http://www.pdp2014.org/<WBR>specialsessions/bio/</a><br>******************************<WBR>******************************<WBR>******************<br>

The computational approach to biology is dealing with an 
enormous availability of data and an extreme complexity in the modelling 
and analysis of life systems. Both these issues make the 
scaling-up promise of High Performance Computing extremely appealing. 
Currently,

the possibility of parallelising algorithms and analysis 
techniques exploiting the various HPC emerging frameworks is receiving a 
lot of interest. Examples include the porting of legacy applications 
to clusters, e.g. those for genome analysis, and the use of 
distributed

technologies, cloud computing, on-chip supercomputing, GPGPUs, 
and massively parallel architectures for the treatment of 
high-throughput data-sets (e.g. Xeon Phi implementations). Arguably, HPC 
will turn out to be an unifying aspect of the future integration of 
Bioinformatics,

Systems and Synthetic Biology.<br>
<br>The aim of this special session is to present the latest efforts in  
High<br>Performance Computational Biology and to foster the integration  
of<br>researchers interested in HPC and Computational Biology.<br>
<br>Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to,  
HPC<br>experiences in:
<br>
<br>- Algorithms for genomics and proteomics<br>- DNA assembly and  
mapping<br>- Bio-Molecular sequence analysis<br>- Gene identification and  
annotation<br>- SNP analysis and classification<br>- Differential gene  
expression analysis and clustering techniques<br>

- Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms<br>- Biological databases for big  
data management<br>- Modelling and simulation of biological systems<br>-  
Automated verification in Computational Biology<br>- Virtual labs and  
experiments<br>

- HPC-based approaches in Synthetic Biology<br>- DNA-based biological  
circuits simulations<br>- Modelling of structural protein properties<br>-  
Parallel architectures for Computational Biology<br>- System infrastructure  
for high throughput analysis<br>

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES 
 Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 
pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format 
 <a 
href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" 
target="_blank">www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> 
 (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page 
of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the 
reference list, references to the authors' own work should appear as 
"omitted

for blind review" entries. Submissions can be made through 
the submission web site at 
 <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2014" 
target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2014</a> 
 
 PUBLICATION 
 Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society 
 <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home" 
target="_blank">www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home</a> 
 in the same volume as the main track. Authors of accepted papers are 
expected to register and present their papers at the 
Conference. Conference proceedings will be indexed, among others, by 
IEEE explore, DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.  
 A special issue of a international journal collecting selected 
papers is under consideration. 
 IMPORTANT DATES 
 Paper submission:  **1st  Sep 2013 (changed!)** Acceptance 
notification: 7th Oct 2013 Camera ready due: 31st Oct 
2013 Conference: 12th - 14th Feb 2014 
 CO-CHAIRS 
 Ivan Merelli, CNR-ITB, Italy Marco Beccuti, University of Turin, 
Italy Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK 
 PROGRAM COMMITTEE 
 Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, IT Andrea Clematis, 
CNR-IMATI, IT Daniele D'Agostino, CNR-IMATI, IT Antonella 
Galizia, CNR-IMATI, IT Sandra Gesing, University of Tuebingen, 
D David Gilbert, Brunel University, UK

Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University at Cottbus, D Luciano Milanesi, 
CNR-ITB, IT Steffen Möller, Institut für Neuro und Bioinformatik, 
D Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK 
Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, University of Murcia, E Alberto Policriti, 
University of Udine, IT 
 
 CONTACTS 
 Dr. Ivan Merelli Institute for Biomedical Technologies Consiglio 
Nazionale delle Ricerche E-mail: <a 
href="mailto:ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it" 
target="_blank">ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it</a> Tel: <a 
href="tel:%2B39%2002%2026422600" value="+390226422600" target="_blank">+39 
02 26422600</a>

Fax: <a href="tel:%2B39%2002%2026422770" value="+390226422770"  
target="_blank">+39 02 26422770</a><br>
<br>Dr. Marco Beccuti<br>Dept. of Computer Science<br>Università degli  
Studi di Torino<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:beccuti at di.unito.it"  
target="_blank">beccuti at di.unito.it</a><br>Tel: <a  
href="tel:%2B39%20011%206706780" value="+390116706780" target="_blank">+39  
011 6706780</a><br>

Fax: <a href="tel:%2B39%20011%20751603" value="+39011751603"  
target="_blank">+39 011 751603</a><br>

Dr. Andrea Bracciali Dept. of Computing Science and 
Mathematics University of Stirling E-mail: <a 
href="mailto:abb at cs.stir.ac.uk" 
target="_blank">abb at cs.stir.ac.uk</a> Tel: <a 
href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291786%20467446" value="+441786467446" 
target="_blank">+44 (0)1786 467446</a>

Fax: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291786%20464551" value="+441786464551"  
target="_blank">+44 (0)1786 464551</a><br>
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