BBCCS 2012 - The 5th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science

Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, interactomics, 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.
Previous workshops were held in Kraków, Baton Rouge, Amsterdam and Singapore.
This is the 5th edition of the workshop that was previously held, respectively, in Kraków (2008), Baton Rouge (2009), Amsterdam (2010) and Singapore (2011). The Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science 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. 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 innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms, medical informatics and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics applied to bioinformatics, medicine, biology and life sciences:
- sequence and structure bioinformatics
- genomics, proteomics, interactomics
- systems biology
- biomedical image analysis
- neuroimaging
- biomedical simulation
- data management
- data integration
- data visualization
- workflow modelling
- distributed biomedical applications
- high performance computing
- dedicated hardware and architectures
- parallelisation techniques
- service orientation
- volunteer computing
- peer-to-peer computing
- Grid and Cloud Computing
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