C4Bio 2014 - 1st International Workshop on Cloud for Bio

In the last 20 years, computational methods have become an important part of developing emerging technologies for the field of bioinformatics and biomedicine. Research areas such as biomodelling, molecular dynamics, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, evolutionary biology, medical biology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, nanobiotechnology, biological engineering, pharmacology, genetics therapy, or automatic diagnosis, rely heavily on large scale computational resources as they need to manage Tbytes or Pbytes of data with large-scale structural and functional relationships, TFlops or PFlops of computing power for simulating highly complex models, or many-task processes and workflows for processing and analyzing data.
As applications require more and more computational resources every day in order to increase the knowledge of biological and health processes, bio disciplines create new challenges of scale for computation, storage, and interpretation of petascale data that are difficult to solve with single clusters. Cloud computing has the potential to help solve these problems by offering a utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage capabilities and abstraction layers that allows overcoming many of the constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in an easy way.
The aim of the workshop is to promote the synergies of the cloud computing and bio communities by exploring applications developed in clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio, and new trends and needs shared between both communities.Thus, this workshop will feature articles that discuss the application of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including solutions to area problems and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems.
Topics
Areas of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Cloud-based bioinformatics applications
Cloud-based biomedicine applications
Cloud-based application in public health systems
Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes
Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution
Molecular Dynamics
Data intensive biomedical applications
Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine
Ontologies and biomedical text mining using clouds
Biological data mining and visualization using clouds
Managing large scale biological and biomedical databases using clouds
Visualization and analysis of biomedical images
Integration and analysis of biomedical data
Biosignals processing using clouds
Computational Modeling and Data Integration
Privacy issues for cloud-based biomedical applications
Security challenges in big data and biomedicine
Biocloud services and resource specification
Cloud Computing architectures for bio
Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures
Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications
Resource provisioning for bioclouds
Distributed cloud solutions
Cloud solutions for biosensors and mobility
Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds
Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications
Important dates
Submission: February 10th, 2014
Author notification: March 1st, 2014
Camera Ready papers due: March 14th, 2014
Conference: May 26th-29th, 2014
Committee
Workshop Organizers:
Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Javier Garcia Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Dr. Manuel Desco. Hospital Gregorio Marañon de Madri, Spain
Prof. Dana Petcu. University of Timisoara, Romania
Program Committee:
Ivona Brandic. Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia
Alejandro Calderon. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
Geoffrey Fox. Indiana University, USA
Jose Daniel Garcia. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
Felix Garcia-Carballeira. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.
Wolfgang Gentzsch. The UberCloud, USA
Pesole Graziano. University of Bari, Italy
Hsien-Da Huang. National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan
Florin Isaila, Argonne National Labs, USA
Cedrid Notredame. Center For Genomic Simulation, Spain
Javier Pascau, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Jorge Ripoll, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA
Omer F. Rana. Cardiff University, UK
Saman K. Halgamuge. The University of Melbourne, Australia
Domenico Talia. University of Calabria, Italy
Peter J. Tonellato. Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, USA
Oswaldo Trelles.University of Malaga. Spain
Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez. University of Extremadura, Spain
Tin Wee Tan. National University of Singapore. Singapore
Roel Wuyts, IMEC, Belgium
Laurence T. Yang. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Paper submission guidelines
Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.
Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages.
The paper submission online system is open: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c4bio2....