[hpc-announce] CFP Special Collection: Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, SAGE Journal, JCR 2.203 (Q2)

[Juan A. Gómez-Pulido]

SPECIAL COLLECTION: PARALLEL COMPUTING IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOINFORMATICS
https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/parall
el-computing-in-evolutionary-bioinformatics

Journal: Evolutionary Bioinformatics
JCR Impact Factor (2018): 2.203 (Q2)
Publisher: SAGE Publishing, USA

Accepted papers will be published continuously from Aug. 2019 to Dec. 31,
2020
Publication in approximately 4-5 weeks after final acceptance
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CALL FOR PAPERS

In the last decade, the omics revolution and the application of deep AI
technologies to evolutionary bioinformatics have significantly boosted the
computing power and storage demands of this field. 
At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has also witnessed a
revolution that has turned it into a jungle populated by very different
types of parallel computing systems exploiting parallelism at different
levels. They include multi- and many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs or
heterogeneous systems joining together several of those types of devices. In
addition, cloud computing techniques can also contribute to foster the
application of bioinformatics algorithms by turning them into a service
(Bioinformatics as a Service, BaaS).
The aim of this Special Collection is to present the state of the art on the
emerging challenges and achievements regarding the use of parallel computing
hardware and software techniques applied to evolutionary bioinformatics and
computational evolutionary biology.


TOPICS:

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the application of the
following hardware or software techniques to accelerate evolutionary
bioinformatics applications:
Multicore and manycore CPUs
Clusters
Emerging hardware accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs
Cloud computing
Grid computing
Parallel deep learning
Neuromorphic computing
Unconventional computing techniques


GUEST EDITORS:

Dr. Jose Luis Guisado Lizar, University of Seville, Spain. Email:
jlguisado at us.es
Dr. Juan A. Gomez-Pulido, University of Extremadura, Spain. Email:
jangomez at unex.es
Dr. Fernando Diaz del Rio, University of Seville, Spain. Email: fdiaz at us.es


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OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE (APC) INFORMATION: 50% off of the
current standing APC.

Evolutionary Bioinformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each
article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately
upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be
hosted online in perpetuity. There is no fee for submitting an article. If,
after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time
article processing charge (APC) is payable. Articles invited to submit to a
Special Collection are eligible for a discounted Article Processing Charge
(APC). Should your article be accepted, you will receive 50% off of the
current standing APC, which you can find listed on the journal homepage.


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Collection.
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el-computing-in-evolutionary-bioinformatics