INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE
(ICCS 2008)
Kraków, POLAND
June 23-25, 2008.
Workshop on
Bioinformatics' Challenges to Computer Science
http://bioinformatics.unicz.it/iccs2008/
(New submission deadline: January 18, 2008)
Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges.
Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient’s clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing.
The workshop will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application.
TOPICS OF INTEREST
The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics:
- sequence and structure bioinformatics
- computational proteomics
- systems biology
- biomedical image analysis
- biomedical simulation
- data management
- data integration
- data visualization
- workflow modelling
- distributed bioinformatics/biomedical applications
- high performance computing
- dedicated hardware and architectures
- parallelisation techniques
- service orientation
- volunteer computing
- peer-to-peer computing
PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION
We invite original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.
The submitted paper must be formatted according to the rules of LNCS (for formatting information see Information for LNCS Authors - http://www.springeronline.com/sgw/cda/frontpage/0,10735,5-164-2-72376-0,00.html). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system (http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2008/papers/upload.php). Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the LNCS format. A paper without figures can be around 5500 words maximally.
Please consult http://bioinformatics.unicz.it/iccs2008/ or http://www.iccs-meeting.org/ for further information.
IMPORTANT DATES
Full papers submission: December
22, 2007 January 18, 2008
Notification of acceptance: March 1, 2008
Camera ready papers: March 15, 2008
Early registration opens: March 1, 2008
Early registration closes: March 30, 2008
WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS
Mario Cannataro, University Magna Grćcia of Catanzaro, Italy
Mathilde Romberg, Research Centre Jülich, Germany
Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
- David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
- Dave Angulo, DePaul University, Chicago, USA
- Vincent Breton, CNRS/IN2P3, LPC Clermont-Ferrand, France
- Rui Brito, University of Coimbra, Portugal
- Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA
- Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK
- Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK
- Christine Froidevaux, LRI-Bioinformatics Group - University Paris XI, Orsay, France
- Alan Garny, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics
- Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy
- Ulrich Hansmann, Research Centre Juelich, Germany
- Vicente Hernández, Univ. Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
- Pilar Herrero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Martin Hoffmann-Apitius, FhG-SCAI, Germany
- Ela Hunt, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
- Glenn Terje Lines, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
- Marcelo Lobosco, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- Uko Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia
- Wagner Meira Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
- Maria Mirto, University of Salento, Italy
- Hartmut Mix, University of Technology Dresden, Germany
- Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy
- María S. Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
- Gernot Plank, University of Graz, Austria
- Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
- Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford, UK
- Kurt Sätzler, University of Ulster, UK
- Luis Paulo da Silva Barra, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil
- Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy
- Raymond Spiteri, University of Saskatchewan, Canada
- Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy
- El-Ghazali Talbi, Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France
- Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy
- Pierangelo Veltri, University “Magna Grćcia” of Catanzaro, Italy
- Edward J. Vigmond, University of Calgary, Canada
- Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia