[Bioclusters] Call for Papers: PRIB 2008 Special Session on High Performance Computing in Bioinformatics

Liu Weiguo liuweiguo at ntu.edu.sg
Mon Mar 17 02:58:19 EDT 2008


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             Call For Papers

    Special Session on HPC in Bioinformatics
                
         held in conjunction with

                 PRIB 2008
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib2008
<http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib2008> 

           October 15-17, 2008

            Novotel, St Kilda
           Melbourne, Australia
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High-throughput techniques for bioinformatics have led to exponential
growth in the amount of publicly available genomic data, e.g. GenBank
has nearly doubled in size each year for the past decade. 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 session is to provide a forum
for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance
computing solutions to problems arising from bioinformatics.

We are especially interested in using modern parallel and distributed
architectures, such as Reconfigurable architectures (FPGAs), Streaming
architectures (GPUs), Multimedia architectures (CellBE), Multi-core
architectures, PC Clusters or Grids for compute-intensive Bioinformatics
applications such as 

* Biological Sequence Analysis
* Gene Expression Analysis and Microarrays
* Protein Folding and Threading
* Protein-Ligand Docking
* Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction
* Biological Database Scanning (e.g. BLAST, HMMer)
* DNA Sequence Assembly
* Systems Biology

Paper Submission:
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Manuscript must be submitted electronically via the "Paper Submission
System" at http://callforpapers.com.au/prib2008/SubmitPaper.php.
Instructions to authors are available at
http://www.infotech.monash.edu.au/about/news/conferences/prib08/. All
papers will undergo the same review process as all other PRIB 2008
papers and the accepted papers will be published as a volume of Lecture
Notes in Bioinformatics or Supplementary Proceedings edited by
conference chairs. 

Important Dates:
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April   15, 2008   Paper Submissions Due
May     15, 2008   Decision Notification
June    15, 2008   Camera-ready Submission

Special Session Organizers:
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Bertil Schmidt
  NICTA VRL
  University of Melbourne
  bschm at ee.unimelb.edu.au <mailto:bschm at ee.unimelb.edu.au> 

Weiguo Liu
  School of Computer Engineering 
  Nanyang Technological University
  liuweiguo at ntu.edu.sg <mailto:liuweiguo at ntu.edu.sg> 



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