HiCOMB 2009 - HiCOMB 2009 8th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology

Call For Papers

HiCOMB 2009
8th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational
Biology
http://www.hicomb.org/

held in conjunction with the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
http://www.ipdps.org/

May 25, 2009

Rome, Italy
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Computational Biology is fast emerging as an important discipline for
academic research and industrial application. The large size of
biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological problems and
the ability to deal with error-prone data all result in large run-time
and memory requirements. The goal of this workshop is to provide a
forum for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance
computing solutions to problems arising from molecular biology. We are
especially interested in parallel algorithms, memory-efficient
algorithms, large scale data mining techniques, and design of
high-performance software. The workshop will feature contributed
papers as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

* Bioinformatic databases
* Computational genomics
* Computational proteomics
* DNA assembly, clustering and mapping
* Gene expression and microarrays
* Gene identification and annotation
* Parallel algorithms for biological analysis
* Parallel architectures for biological applications
* Molecular evolution
* Molecular sequence analysis
* Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms
* Protein structure prediction and modeling
* String data structures and algorithms

Submission Guidelines:
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Papers reporting original research (both theoretical and experimental)
in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology are sought.
Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome.
To submit a paper, upload a postscript or PDF copy of the paper from
the workshop web page (http://www.hicomb.org/). The paper should not
exceed 12 single-spaced pages (US Letter or A4 size) in 11pt font or
larger. All papers will be reviewed. IEEE CS Press will publish the
IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The
complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by
IEEE CS Press on CD-ROM and will also be available in the IEEE Digital
Library.

Important Dates:
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November 30, 2008 Workshop Submissions Due (Extended Deadline)
December 25, 2008 Author Notification
February 15, 2009 Camera-ready Paper Due

Workshop Co-Chairs:
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David A. Bader
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Phone: +1.404.894.3152
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bader

Srinivas Aluru
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg.
Iowa State University
3227 Coover Hall
Ames, IA 50011 USA
Phone: +1.515.294.3539
Email: aluru-AT-iastate.edu

Program Chair:
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Michela Taufer
Dept. of Computer and Information Sciences
University of Delaware
103 Smith Hall
Newark, DE 19716 USA
Phone: +1.302.831.0071
Email: taufer-AT-acm.org
http://cis.udel.edu/~taufer

Program Committee:
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Dmitry A. Afonnikov,
Institute of Cytology and Genetics SB RAS, Novosibirsk
and Novosibirsk State University (Russia)
Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (USA)
Nancy Amato, Texas A&M University (USA)
Roger Armen, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor (USA)
Georg Fuellen, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University Greifswald (Germany)
Concettina Guerra, Georgia Tech (USA) and University of Padova (Italy)
Ming-Ying Leung, University of Texas at El Paso (USA)
Mark Miller, San Diego Supercomputer Center (USA)
Aiichiro Nakano, University of South California (USA)
Sandeep Patel, University of Delaware (USA)
Geppino Pucci, University of Padova (Italy)
Jacques Rougemont, EPFL (Switzerland)
Alexandros Stamatakis, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (Germany)
Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
Heiko Schroder, RMIT University (Australia)
John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA)
Wing-Kin Sung, National University of Singapore (Singapore)
Jim Tisdall, DuPont (USA)
Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland, College Park (USA)