CfP High-performance bioinformatics at EURO-PAR 2006

Hi, the CfP below might be of interest to you. The deadline is end of January. 
Could you please also pass it on to relevant colleagues? Thanks, Michael Schroeder


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**                         CALL FOR PAPERS                        **
                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
                TOPIC 17:   High-Performance Bioinformatics

                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 17 - DESCRIPTION

Genome sequencing projects and their successor projects have produced enormous 
amounts of biological data including genome sequences, protein structures and gene 
expression profiles, to name a few. High performance computational biology and 
bioinformatics are definitely required to extract valuable biological and biomedical 
knowledge from the ever-increasing biological data. New computational techniques and new 
theoretical models are required to simulate complex biological behavior of biological 
systems. This track focuses on high-performance and high-throughput computing necessary 
for management of biological data, extraction of meaning from biological data and using 
such data in models of biological systems, and modeling and simulation of biological 
systems. Applications using parallel programming, grid computing, and/or specialized 
computational systems are of particular interest – particularly the challenges of scaling to 
very large scales (100s of TeraFLOPS to PetaFLOPS).

Authors should report relevant experiences, present novel approaches to existing problems 
and raise important novel issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, those in 
the following list:

Focus
-	Computational biology and bioinformatics applications on grid systems
-	Petascale computational biology
-	Computation pipelines and workflows for computational biology and 
        biological data integration
-	Ontologies and semantic web approaches for bioinformatics
-	Supervised and unsupervised analysis and categorization of genomic and 
        proteomic data
-	Mathematical modeling and simulation systems for systems biology 
-	Predictive biology: how do we get there?
-	High performance architectures and systems for computational biology, 
        systems biology, and bioinformatics

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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 17 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Craig A. Stewart
Indiana University
University Information Technology
Services
Indiana, USA
stewart@iu.edu

Local Chair
Prof. Dr.  Michael Schroeder
TU Dresden
Biotec
Dresden, Germany
michael.schroeder@biotec.tu-dresden.de

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Concettina Guerra
University of Padova
Padova, Italy, and
Georgia Tech, Atlanta, USA
guerra@dei.unipd.it

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Konagaya Akihiko
Riken Genomic Sciences Center
Yokohama City, Japan
konagaya@gsc.riken.jp

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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands
on experiences.

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Michael Schroeder, Professor in Bioinformatics

Biotec/Dept. of Computing, TU Dresden
Tatzberg 47-51, 01307 Dresden, Germany

w: www.biotec.tu-dresden.de
t: +49 351 463 400 60
f: +49 351 463 400 61
e: ms@biotec.tu-dresden.de

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