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ParBio 2021 : 10th International Workshop on Parallel and Cloud-based Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (ParBio) | |||||||||||||||
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SUBMIT PAPERS ONLINE USING EASY CHAIR (parbio2021) AT:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parbio2021 GOALS Due to the availability of high-throughput platforms (e.g. next generation sequencing, microarray, and mass spectrometry) and clinical diagnostic tools (e.g. medical imaging), a recent trend in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine is the increasing production of experimental and clinical data. Considering the complex analysis pipelines often used in biomedical research, a key bottleneck involves the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as the correlation and integration of analyses with data from publicly available datasets. While parallel computing and Grid computing may offer the computational power and the storage to face this overwhelming availability of data, Cloud Computing is a key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, while reducing the cost of the data analyses, ultimately serving to change the overall model of biomedical research and health care delivery. Traditionally, grid infrastructures have offered the data storage needed to store the huge experimental and biomedical data, while parallel computing has been used for basic pre-processing (e.g. parallel BLAST, mpiBLAST) and for more advanced analysis (e.g. parallel data mining). Recently, novel parallel architectures (e.g. CELL processors, GPUs, FPGAs, hybrid CPU/FPGA) coupled with emerging programming models may overcome the limits posed by conventional computers to the mining and exploration of large amounts of data. These technologies, however, require great investments by biomedical and clinical institutions, and are based on a traditional model where users often need to be aware and face different management problems, such as hardware and software management, data storage, software ownership, with potentially insurmountable start-up costs (e.g. different professional-level applications in the biomedical domain have high start-up costs that often prevent many small laboratories from using them). Cloud Computing technology, that is able to offer scalable costs with increased accessibility, availability, and ease of application use, while enhancing the potential for collaboration among scientists, is already changing the business model in different sectors and has been adopted in the bioinformatics and biomedical domains. However, many problems remain to be solved, such as availability and safety of the data, privacy-related issues, availability of software platforms for rapid deployment, and the execution and billing of biomedical applications. The Cloud Computing technology, that is able to offer scalable costs and increased reachability, availability and easiness of application use, and also the possibility to enable collaboration among scientists, is already changing the business model in different domains and now it starts to be used also in the bioinformatics (see for instance the recent JCVI Cloud Bio-Linux initiative) and biomedical domains. However, many problems remain to be solved, such as availability and safety of the data, privacy-related issues, availability of software platforms for rapid deployment, execution and billing of biomedical applications. The goal of ParBio 2021 is to bring together scientists in the fields of high performance and cloud computing, computational biology and medicine to discuss the organization of large scale biological and biomedical databases, the parallel/service-based implementation of bioinformatics and biomedical applications, and problems and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications on the cloud. The workshop will focus on research issues, problems, and opportunities of moving biomedical and health applications to the cloud, as well as on the opportunity to define guidelines and minimum requirements for a Biomedical Cloud. Moreover, the workshop will discuss parallel and distributed management and analysis of molecular and clinical data, that more and more need to be integrated and analyzed in a joint way. TOPICS OF INTEREST The main themes and research topics of interest will regard the applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine, as well as Cloud Computing opportunities and problems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications, including: - Large scale biological and biomedical databases - Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine - Integration and analysis of molecular and clinical data - Parallel bioinformatics algorithms - Parallel visualization and exploration of omics and clinical data - Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images - Computing environments for large scale collaboration - Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine - Emerging architectures and programming models for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Parallel processing of bio-signals - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes - Cloud Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Cloud Computing for health systems - Privacy issues for Cloud-based biomedical applications - (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine - Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine PROGRAM The workshop will take place on August 1st. The workshop is scheduled to be held online in conjunction with the ACM BCB conference. PAPER SUBMISSION, REGISTRATION AND PUBLICATION ParBio 2021 welcomes original submissions that have not been published, and that are not under review by another conference or journal. Papers should not exceed 10 pages in ACM template on 8.5 x 11 inch paper. See ACM Templates: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the work associated with the paper submitted. ParBio’s technical program committee will review all submitted papers. All accepted papers of registered authors will be included in the workshop proceedings published by ACM digital libraries. Authors of selected papers may be invited to adapt their papers for their publication in several journals. Authors of accepted papers will be required to submit an online ACM Copyright Form. Authors will be contacted by ACM requesting this information. (Note that ACM copyright permissions are directly compatible with NIH and similar open access policies. For more information, see : http://authors.acm.org/main.html SUBMIT PAPERS ONLINE USING EASY CHAIR (parbio2021) AT: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=parbio2021 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE We plan to invite selected papers accepted to ParBio-2021 to be submitted for a journal special issue (more details will be posted soon). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: June 8, 2021 (Extended) Notifications sent to authors: June 10, 2021 Camera-ready papers due: June 15, 2021 Workshop: August 1, 2021 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Giuseppe Agapito, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Wes Lloyd, School of Engineering and Technology, University of Washington - Tacoma, Washington PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow, PL, and University of Amsterdam, NL Umit Catalyurek, The Ohio State University, USA Jake Y. Chen, Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), USA Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK Ling Hong Hung, University of Washington – Tacoma, USA Ananth Y. Grama, Purdue University, USA Concettina Guerra, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Kamer Kaya, The Ohio State University, USA Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain Shruti Ramesh, Micrsosoft, Redmond, WA USA Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia |
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