September 9, 2015
Atlanta, GA, USA
http://www.bigls.org

The ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences is a workshop series dedicated to the broad theme of Big Data in life sciences. The goal of the workshop is to bring together leading researchers and practitioners working on a diverse range of Big Data problems relating to biology and medicine, and engage them in a discussion about current Big Data problems, the state of computational tools and analytics, the challenges and the future trends within life sciences.

The focus of this year edition is on scientific workflows for Big Data analytics, including workflows design, optimization, management and execution in HPC and cloud environments.

In addition, papers catering to the following broad themes are also welcome:

• Scalable algorithms and techniques for Big Data analytics in molecular biology
• Statistical and integrative approaches to Big Data biology
• Emerging Machine Learning and AI techniques for Big Data biology
• High performance computing methods and software for Big Data biology
• Software and hardware foundations for managing Big Data in biomedical informatics

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: June 19, 2015
Authors notification: July 20, 2015
Camera-ready papers: July 30, 2015