ISC 2018 - Second Workshop on HPC Applications in Precision Medicine

Second Workshop on HPC Applications in Precision Medicine
https://nciphub.org/groups/precision2018
Friday, June 28, 2018
As part of ISC High Performance 2018
http://isc-hpc.com
Frankfurt, Germany
Important Dates:
Paper Submission Deadline: April 30, 2018
Notification of Acceptance: May 21, 2018
Workshop: June 28, 2018
Submission URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapm18
Workshop Abstract
High-performance computing has become integral to the future success of precision medicine. Catalyzed by the dramatic increase in the amount of data available through advanced next generation sequencing and advanced imaging techniques, new approaches are in development to address the complexities of understanding and modeling biology. When coupled with long-standing computational chemistry and biology techniques used in drug discovery, an exciting frontier emerges for innovation as the communities join. The use of deep learning to develop data driven models combined with exascale capabilities to explore and validate models, adds an exciting dimension for the future of both HPC and precision medicine. The HPC Applications in Precision Medicine workshop aims to bring together the computational and life sciences communities to share experiences, examine current challenges, and explore future opportunities for applications of high-performance computing in precision medicine.
In the workshop, we bring together individuals from across the globe with interests in the use of HPC applications in precision medicine to share insights, experiences and showcase new capabilities in this rapidly evolving field.
Target Audience
The workshop is expected to attract those developers, researchers, and vendors with technologies and solutions holding potential to address problems in precision medicine and seeking potential collaborators to work with. The workshop also draws individuals from the breadth of precision medicine application areas spanning research to clinical application in areas including drug discovery, preclinical validation, diagnostics, health monitoring, precision biomarker development, prevention and early detection, treatment determination and population studies, interested in the computational and data challenges and opportunities created in precision and predictive medicine.
Call for Papers
The workshop is seeking papers that will enable any of the following as applied to precision medicine:
• Bring awareness of new high-performance computational technologies,
• Provide insight into novel HPC methodologies and approaches,
• Share innovative and valuable data resources,
• Broaden awareness with case and application studies, and
• Develop opportunities for community collaboration, both nationally and internationally
Submitted papers will be reviewed and selected for presentation in the HPC Applications of Precision Medicine Workshop. Papers selected for presentation will be invited to be included in a special journal issue for the workshop. Aiming to provide broad visibility and access to submissions at this workshop, a preliminary agreement has been arranged with BMC Bioinformatics to present the accepted workshop submissions in special journal issue.
Candidate topic areas for the HPC Applications in Precision Medicine may include:
Precision Medicine Research and Clinical Applications
Disease Specific Predictive Models
Therapeutic Development
Toxicity Modeling
Next Generation Sequencing Analysis
Single Cell Sequencing
Proteomics, Genomics, and Metabolomics
Flow Cytometry
High-throughput Screening
Multi-modal Biological Imaging
Structural Biology
Biological-scale Molecular Dynamics
Protein-protein Interaction
Cellular Signaling
Cell-level Predictive Modeling
Imaging and Digital Pathology
Pharmacodynamic Modeling
Pharmacogenomic Modeling and Analysis
Electronic Health and Medical Records
mHealth and Health Sensor Networks
Bioinformatics
Systems Biology
Biological Ensemble Models
Computational Approaches
High-performance Parallel Computing
Cloud Computing
Exascale and Extreme-scale Computing
Machine and/or Deep Learning
Cognitive Computing
Data Integration and Delivery
Data Sharing and Model Interchange
Image Processing
Heterogeneous Computing (GPGPU, FPGA, etc.)
Programming Models
Visualization
Uncertainty Quantification
Multi-scale Predictive Modeling
Integrated Systems Simulations
Integration Frameworks
Computational Workflows
Information and Data Security
Automata and Finite State Machines
Novel Mathematical and Statistical Models
Data Science and Analytics
Graph and/or Network Analysis
Model Validation and Verification
Submission Guidance
Authors are invited to submit papers in English structured as technical papers limited to a maximum of eight letter size pages (not including bibliography). A bibliography should be included and use the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without consideration or review.
Papers will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, alignment to expressed cross-disciplinary aims in the paper call, quality of presentation and interest to workshop attendees. Submitted abstracts may incorporate unpublished new advances, insight and/or original research findings.
Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the prescribed length, or not appropriately structured may also be returned without consideration or review.
In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop.
Preliminary papers submitted for consideration should be submitted electronically as PDF documents at:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hapm18
Instructions for submitting final versions of papers to be included in the special journal issue will be shared with authors of the accepted papers.
Workshop Organizing Committee
The initial workshop organizing committee has spearheaded the identification of presenters from both Europe and US. The committee was strongly supported by colleagues in identifying the slate of presenters for the initial workshop in 2017 and has support for the same in developing the program for the 2018 workshop.
Thomas Steinke – Zuse Institute Berlin
Sunita Chandrasekaran – University of Delaware
Patricia Kovatch – Mount Sinai Icahn School of Medicine
Eric Stahlberg – Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research
The workshop organizing committee has established a growing program committee to support the organizers in developing the 2018 workshop program, including review and selection of submitted papers.
Workshop Program Committee
Guy Robison, Cancer Research University of Cambridge, UK
Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany
Erin Crowgey, Nemours Children Hospital
Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany
Paul Macklin, Indiana University, USA
Jonathan Ozik, Argonne National Lab
Prasanna Balaprakash, Argonne National Lab
Kshitij Srivatsava, Oak Ridge National Lab
Fernanda Foertter, Nvidia
Dave Richards, Oak Ridge National Lab
Martin Herbordt, Boston University