INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE (ICCS 2010)

Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges. Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient’s clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing. This 3rd Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed.

TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics: - sequence and structure bioinformatics - computational proteomics - systems biology - biomedical image analysis - biomedical simulation - data management - data integration - data visualization - workflow modelling - distributed biomedical applications - high performance computing - dedicated hardware and architectures - parallelisation techniques - service orientation - volunteer computing - peer-to-peer computing

IMPORTANT DATES Full papers submission (Extended Deadline):January 15, 2010 Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2010 Camera ready papers:March 1, 2010 Early registration opens:February 15, 2010 Early registration closes: March 31, 2010 Conference sessions :May 31 - June 2, 2010

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