HiBB 2011 - Workshop on High Performance Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (HiBB)

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 experimental research may be conducted by remote scientists 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, 30th. It is scheduled as full-day.

The program is not available yet.