CFP: High Performance Bioinformatics @ EuroPar'04

            HIGH PERFORMANCE BIOINFORMATICS
                      Euro-Par 2004
                       Pisa, Italy
                  31 Aug - 3 Sep, 2004

DESCRIPTION
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Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and interpreting
information from biological sequences and structures. Genome
sequencing projects have contributed to an exponential growth in
complete and partial sequence databases. Similarly, the rapidly
expanding structural genomics initiative aims to catalog the
structure-function information for proteins. Advances in technology
such as microarrays have launched the subfield of genomics and
proteomics to study the genes, proteins, and the regulatory gene
expression circuitry inside the cell.

What characterizes the state of the field is the flood of data that
exists today or that is anticipated in the future. Combined with the
fact that many of the bioinformatics tasks are highly compute
intensive (e.g., ad initio protein folding), it is clear that high
performance computing has a fundamental role to play in various
bioinformatics problems ranging from the protein folding problem to
large-scale genomics to inferring pathways and regulatory networks.

FOCUS
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The goal of this session is to present the latest research in
high-performance computing applied to bioinformatics tasks.  We are
especially interested in scalable, parallel, and distributed
algorithms for mining and analyzing bioinformatics data, as well as
system tools that support large-scale high performance bioinformatics.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

    Gene expression and microarrays 
    Computational genomics & proteomics 
    Gene identification, mapping and annotation 
    Molecular sequence analysis 
    Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms 
    Protein/RNA structure 
    Data Mining in Bioinformatics
    DataGrid/Database Support for Bioinformatics  

SUBMISSIONS
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Paper submission deadline is February 9, 2004. Additional details are
available at http://www.di.unipi.it/europar04/ 

GLOBAL CHAIR
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Mohammed J. Zaki
Department of Computer Science 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Troy, New York 12180-3590
Email: zaki-CXiM98XSapA3uPMLIKxrzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
phone: (518) 276-6340

VICE CHAIRS
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David A. Bader
Electrical & Computer Engr. Dept. 
University of New Mexico 
Albuquerque, NM 87131 USA 
Email: dbader-HB14jlncBI+Vc3sceRu5cw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Phone: +1.505.277.6724 

Johan Montagnat 
Creatis 
INSA, bâtiment Blaise Pascal 
20 bd Albert Einstein 
69621 Villeurbanne cedex, France 
Email: johan-0ZXfWqjJkvJNgumx+FIHDcc1ZZbpBbUC@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
Phone: +33 (0) 472 43 63 87

LOCAL CHAIR
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Concettina Guerra
Dip. Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Universita'di Padova
via Gradenigo 6a, 35100, Padova, Italy
Email: guerra-2/3W1wIP1CU+9D430DZnzg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://www.dei.unipd.it/~guerra
Phone: +39 049 827 7933 

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