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<font size=3>CALL FOR PAPERS<br>
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International Workshop on Distributed, High-Performance and Grid
Computing in Computational Biology (GCCB 2006)<br><br>
to be held as part of<br><br>
5th European Conference on Computational Biology (ECCB 2006), Eilat,
Israel, 10-13 September 2006 <br><br>
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Objectives and Workshop Format<br><br>
The GCCB workshop will bring together computational biologists,
bioinformaticians and life scientists who have researched and applied
distributed, high-performance and grid computing technologies in the
context of computational biology and bioinformatics. The workshop will
discuss innovative work in progress and important new directions. By
sharing the insights, discussing ongoing work and the results that have
been achieved, we hope the workshop participants will glean a
comprehensive view of the state of the art in this area and identify
emerging and future research issues. The goal of the GCCB workshop is to
make a valuable contribution in encouraging and shaping future work in
this field.<br><br>
The workshop is structured into a one-day session consisting of invited
speeches from industry and academia, and presentations of selected
papers. Please monitor the workshop Web site (
<a href="http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">
http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk</a>) for details on invited speakers, the
program, and other aspects. Proceedings are expected to be published in
Springer’s Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics series. <br><br>
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Topics of Interest<br><br>
Contributions of interest will address topics related to the development,
deployment, application and evaluation of distributed, high-performance
and grid computing technologies to the following areas:<br><br>
* Analysis, modeling and simulation of processes like pathways,
biological networks, pharmacodynamics, pharmacokinetics, protein-protein
interaction, transcription initiation, and whole systems;<br>
* Computational approaches to biological entities and processes, e.g. to
functional genomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epidemiology, epigenetics,
biodiversity, ecosystems, neuroscience;<br>
* Linkage and sequence analysis;<br>
* Molecule design;<br>
* Prediction of protein-, DNA-, and RNA-structure, toxicity, AMDE
(absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion), etc.;<br>
* Protein folding and unfolding;<br>
* Information retrieval and knowledge discovery including data and text
mining;<br>
* Management and integration of biological data and information;<br>
* Distributed ontologies and semantic Web/grid approaches;<br>
* Visualization and image management and processing of biological
data;<br>
* Grid tools for computational biology and bioinformatics;<br>
* Distributed systems and databases;<br>
* Development of diagnostic, prognostic and therapeutic (drugs)
technologies;<br>
* Large-scale (storage, computation, components/systems) studies in
computational biology and bioinformatics.<br><br>
Contributions will only be considered IF they contain a considerable
element of distributed, high-performance or grid computing, AND address a
problem in computational biology and bioinformatics.<br><br>
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Important Dates<br><br>
15 July 2006:
Deadline for manuscript submission<br>
10 August 2006: Notification of
acceptance<br>
20 August 2006: Electronic
presentation due for publication on conference CD<br>
10 September 2006: Workshop at ECCB 2006 in Eilat, Israel<br>
20 September 2006: Camera-ready papers due<br>
December 2006: LNCS publication
ready<br><br>
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Paper Submission Details<br><br>
Manuscripts (in English up to 6000 words) should be submitted on
<a href="http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">
http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk</a>. Submission formats are PDF and
Microsoft Word/LaTeX. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer
Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (to be confirmed).
Hardcopy proceedings will be sent to participants in December 2006.
Required LNCS Microsoft Word/LaTeX templates can be found on the workshop
Web site. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. To be included in the
proceedings, at least one author must confirm attendance at the workshop
and present the paper. A CD containing the slide presentations will be
available at the workshop. <br><br>
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Program Co-Chairs<br><br>
Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK<br>
Assaf Schuster, TECHNION, Israel<br>
Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands<br>
Michael Schroeder, Dresden University of Technology, Germany<br>
Mathilde Romberg, University of Ulster, UK<br><br>
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For further information visit
<a href="http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk/" eudora="autourl">
http://gccb2006.ulster.ac.uk<br>
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