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

Ivan Merelli ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it
Wed Jun 26 12:04:07 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>

<br>The computational approach to biology is dealing with an  
enormous<br>availability of data and an extreme complexity in the modelling  
and<br>analysis of life systems. Both these issues make the  
scaling-up<br>promise of High Performance Computing extremely appealing.  
Currently,<br>
the possibility of parallelising algorithms and analysis  
techniques<br>exploiting the various HPC emerging frameworks is receiving a  
lot of<br>interest. Examples include the porting of legacy applications  
to<br>clusters, e.g. those for genome analysis, and the use of  
distributed<br>
technologies, cloud computing, on-chip supercomputing, GPGPUs,  
and<br>massively parallel architectures for the treatment of  
high-throughput<br>data-sets (e.g. Xeon Phi implementations). Arguably, HPC  
will turn out<br>to be an unifying aspect of the future integration of  
Bioinformatics,<br>
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>
<br>Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to,  
HPC<br>experiences in:
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<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>

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<br>SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br>
<br>Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8  
pages<br>in the IEEE Conference proceedings format<br>
<br><a  
href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html"  
target="_blank">www.ieee.org/conferences_<WBR>events/conferences/publishing/<WBR>templates.html</a><br>
<br>(IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page  
of<br>the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the  
reference<br>list, references to the authors' own work should appear as  
"omitted<br>
for blind review" entries. Submissions can be made through  
the<br>submission web site at<br>
<br><a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2014"  
target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/<WBR>conferences/?conf=pdp2014</a><br>
<br>
<br>PUBLICATION<br>
<br>Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society<br>
<br><a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home"  
target="_blank">www.computer.org/portal/web/<WBR>cscps/home</a><br>
<br>in the same volume as the main track. Authors of accepted papers<br>are  
expected to register and present their papers at the  
Conference.<br>Conference proceedings will be indexed, among others, by 
IEEE explore,<br>DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.  A  
special issue<br>of a international journal collecting selected papers is  
under consideration.<br>
<br>IMPORTANT DATES<br>
<br>Paper submission: 31st Jul 2013<br>Acceptance notification: 7th Oct  
2013<br>Camera ready due: 31st Oct 2013<br>Conference: 12th - 14th Feb  
2014<br>
<br>CO-CHAIRS<br>
<br>Ivan Merelli, CNR-ITB, Italy<br>Marco Beccuti, University of Turin,  
Italy<br>Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK<br>
<br>PROGRAM COMMITTEE<br>
<br>Andrea Clematis, CNR-IMATI, Italy<br>Daniele D'Agostino, CNR-IMATI,  
Italy<br>Antonella Galizia, CNR-IMATI, Italy<br>Sandra Gesing, University  
of Tuebingen, Germany<br>David Gilbert, Brunel University, UK<br>Alberto  
Policriti, University of Udine, Italy<br>
Luciano Milanesi, CNR-ITB, Italy<br>Steffen Moeller, Institut fur Neuro-  
und Bioinformatik, Germany<br>Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow,  
UK<br>Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain<br>Monika Heiner,  
Brandenburg University at Cottbus, Germany<br>
Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy<br>
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<br>CONTACTS<br>
<br>Dr. Ivan Merelli<br>Institute for Biomedical Technologies<br>Consiglio  
Nazionale delle Ricerche<br>E-mail: <a  
href="mailto:ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it"  
target="_blank">ivan.merelli at itb.cnr.it</a><br>Tel: +39 02 26422600<br>
Fax: +39 02 26422770<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: +39 011 6706780<br>Fax: +39  
011 751603<br>

<br>Dr. Andrea Bracciali<br>Dept. of Computing Science and  
Mathematics<br>University of Stirling<br>E-mail: <a  
href="mailto:abb at cs.stir.ac.uk"  
target="_blank">abb at cs.stir.ac.uk</a><br>Tel: +44 (0)1786 467446<br>
Fax: +44 (0)1786 464551<br>
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