[BiO BB] Euro-Par 2013 - 4th International Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB)

[Mario Cannataro]

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                    4th International Workshop on
         High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB)
            http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/hibb2013/

                       held in conjunction with
                            Euro-Par 2013
                           Aachen, Germany
                         August 26-30, 2013
                      http://www.europar2013.org
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                        * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * *
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High-throughput technologies (e.g. microarray and mass spectrometry) and
clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging) are producing an
increasing amount of experimental and clinical data. In such a scenario,
large-scale databases and bioinformatics tools are key tools for
organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to
discover new knowledge in biology and medicine.
High-performance computing may play an important role in many phases of
life sciences research, from raw data management and processing, to data
analysis and integration, till data exploration and visualization. In
particular, at the raw data layer, Grid infrastructures may offer the huge
data storage needed to store experimental and biomedical data, while
parallel computing can be used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel
BLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). In such
a scenario, novel parallel architectures (e.g. e.g. CELL processors, GPUs,
FPGA, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may
overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and
exploration of large amounts of data.
At an higher layer, emerging biomedical applications need to use in a
coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks and
patient’s clinical data, that require seamless integration, privacy
preservation and controlled sharing. Service Oriented Architectures and
semantic technologies, such as ontologies, may allow the building and
deployment of the so-called "collaboratories" where remote scientists may
conduct experimental research in a collaborative way.
The goal of HiBB is to bring together scientists in the fields of high
performance computing, computational biology and medicine to discuss,
among the others, the organization of large-scale biological and
biomedical databases and the parallel implementation of bioinformatics
algorithms and biomedical applications. Furthermore, the use of novel
parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics
and biomedical algorithms will be discussed.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting applications
of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine. Topics
of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Large scale biological and biomedical databases
- Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine
- Parallel bioinformatics algorithms
- Parallel visualization and exploration of biomedical data
- Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images
- Computing environments for large scale collaboration
- Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine
- (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Emerging architectures and programming models (e.g. Cell, GPUs) for
bioinformatics and biomedicine
- Parallel processing of bio-signals
- Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes


PROGRAM
The workshop will take place on August 26 or 27, 2013 (To Be Announced).
It is scheduled as half-day.
The program is not available yet.


PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION
We invite original previously unpublished contributions. Submission
implies that at least one author will register for the workshops at
Euro-Par 2013 and present the paper in the workshop session, if accepted.
Full papers should not exceed 10 pages in the Springer LNCS style
(http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0).
Download LNCS Latex style here
(ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip).
Springer's author guidelines are available here.
Paper submission has to be performed by using the HiBB-2013 EasyChair
submission server (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hibb2013).
In case of problems, authors may send their manuscript in PDF to the
workshop chair: cannataro AT unicz.it.
Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form
(Latex or Word).
All accepted and presented papers will be included in the Workshops
proceedings that will be published in a separate Springer LNCS Euro-Par
2013 Workshop volume after the conference.
Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign up a Springer
copyright form.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
At the end of the workshop, we plan to invite the best 4-6 papers of the
workshop for a special section on an international journal.


IMPORTANT DATES
Workshop papers due:  May 31, 2013
Workshop author notification:  July 8, 2013
Revised papers to be distributed at the workshop due:  July 29, 2013
Workshop session:  August 26 or 27, 2013

Important dates for EuroPar Workshop Proceedings preparation
Workshop camera-ready papers for Euro-Par Workshop Proceedings due: 
October 3, 2013


WORKSHOP ORGANIZER
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Græcia of Catanzaro, Italy

PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED)
1. Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
2. David A. Bader, College of Computing, Georgia University of Technology,
USA
3. Ignacio Blanquer; Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain
4. Daniela Calvetti, Case Western Reserve University, USA
5. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK
6. Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA
7. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy
8. Vicente Hernandez, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
9. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy
10. Horacio Perez-Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain
11. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
12. Richard Sinnott; National e-Science Centre, University of Glasgow,
Glasgow, United Kingdom
13. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
14. Erkki Somersalo, Case Western Reserve University, USA
15. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy
16. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia