BILIS 2012 - International Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2012)

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Category BILIS 2012

Deadline: February 28, 2012 | Date: July 02, 2012-July 06, 2012

Venue/Country: Madrid, Spain

Updated: 2012-02-14 18:25:39 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Due to the computational intensive problems in life sciences, the marriage between the Bioinformatics domain and high performance computing is critical to the advancement of Biosciences. In addition, the problems in this domain tend to be highly parallelizable and deal with large datasets, hence using HPC is a natural fit. The Bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Most methods used for analyzing DNA/Protein sequences are known to be computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computational systems with high throughput characteristics.

In the current Information age, further progress of Medical Sciences requires successful integration with Computational and Information Sciences. The workshop attempts to attract innovative ways of how such integration can be achieved via Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics research, particularly in taking advantage of the new advancements in HPC systems. The focus of data analysis and data mining tools in biomedical research highlights the current state of research in the key biomedical research areas such as bioinformatics, medical informatics and biomedical imaging. Addressing performance concerns in managing and accessing medical data, while facilitating the ability to integrate and correlate different biomedical databases remains an outstanding problem in biomedical research. The amount of available biomedical data continues to grow in an exponential rate; however, the impact of utilizing such resources remains minimal. The development of innovative tools in HPC environments to integrate, analyze and mine such data sources is a key step towards achieving large impact levels.

The workshop focuses on topics related to the utilization of HPC systems and new models of parallel computations in problems related to Biomedical Informatics, along with the use of data integration and data mining tools to support biomedical research and Health Care.

The Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:

HPC for the Analysis of Biological Data

Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care

Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications

Algorithms and Tools for Biomedical Imaging and Medical Signal Processing

Energy Aware Scheduling Techniques for Large Scale Biomedical Applications

HPC for analyzing Biological Networks

Next Generation Sequencing and Advanced Tools for DNA Assembly

HPC for Gene, Protein/RNA Analysis and Structure Prediction

Identification of Biomarkers

Biomedical Visualization Tools

Efficient Clustering and Classification Algorithms

Correlation Networks in Biomedical Research

Data Mining Techniques in Biomedical Applications

Heterogeneous Data Integration

HPC systems for Ontology and Database Integration

Pattern Recognition and Search Tools in Biological and Clinical Databases

Ubiquitous Medical Knowledge Discovery and Exchange

HPC for Monitoring and Treatment Facilities

Drug Design and Modeling

Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Procedures

Remote Patient Monitoring, Homecare Applications

Mobile and Wireless Healthcare and Biomedical Applications

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to HPC for Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Life Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author and include up to 6 keywords from the above list of topics and an abstract of no more than 400 words. The full manuscript should be at most 7 pages using the two-column IEEE format. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments.

Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript via email to the Workshop organizer at heshamunomaha.edu.

Only PDF files will be accepted. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, contributions, relevance, technical clarity and presentation. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their papers will be registered and presented at the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting.

If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the organizer.