[Socbin] Workshop: "Modern computer tools for the biosciences- A Grid Perspective"

[Erik Bongcam]

WORKSHOP: "Modern computer tools for the biosciences -A Grid Perspective"
http://gbio-pbil.ibcp.fr/modernbio

Key dates
Submission Deadline: 30th November.
Notification Deadline: 15th January 2008
Camera Ready deadline: 30th January, 2008

The Workshop on " Modern computer tools for the biosciences " is a
one-day event focusing on topics including the added-value of the
Grid for Bioinformaticians, Biologists and Medical scientists, and
the readiness of the Grid for these end-users The grid concept has
already produced a variety of middle-wares, components and platforms
that are available around the World. But are facilities ready to be
exploited by the true end-user? There are several challenging points
that are still under development in the biosciences domain. The
workshop will focus on some of these critical areas, notably, sharing
biological data within distributed file systems and database
management systems, providing developers with programmatic usage of
independent remote components such as web services or standard grid
APIs, providing end-users with uniform grid access including
ergonomic and efficient portals, and creating workflows on distributed
resources, ...

" Modern computer tools for the biosciences - a grid perspective"
will be held in conjunction with the 8th IEEE International Symposium
on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2008), Lyon, France, on May
19-22, 2008.

Call for Papers

Topics of special interest, but not limited to, are the following.

High-throughput and high-performance Bioinformatics
Genomics
Proteomics
Molecular structure prediction, modelling and dynamic
System biology
Biological data management
Data integration, semantic and ontologies
Grid distributed file systems
Distributed database management systems
Bioinformatics tools integration
Programmatic usage of independent remote components: Web services,
grid APIs
Web Portals and remote interface
Workflow enactor and interface
Parallel and distributed applications



Proceedings
Authors are invited to submit original papers not previously
published nor submitted in parallel to any other publication for
conference, workshop or journal. Papers should be up to 8 pages long,
double column and follow the IEEE manuscript guidelines provided by
CCGrid2008 web site. Submission implies the willingness of at least
one of the authors to register and present the paper. Authors must
register and submit their paper through the online submission system.
Workshop papers will be included in CCGrid proceedings published by
IEEE Computer Society and will be available electronically in the
IEEE Digital Library.

Chair

Dr Christophe Blanchet
Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins
CNRS IBCP, Lyon, France
Email : Christophe.Blanchet at ibcp.fr
http://gbio-pbil.ibcp.fr/cblanchet

Dr Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics
SLU, Uppsala, Sweden
Email: erik.bongcam at lcb.uu.se or erik.bongcam at hgen.slu.se
http://www.lcb.uu.se/~bongcam/

Program Committee

Sadaf Alam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
Julie Chabalier, University of Rennes, France
Antoine de Daruvar, LABRI, Bordeaux, France
Frédéric Desprez, INRIA LIP ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
Andreas Gisel, CNR-ITB, Bari, Italy
Patricia Hernandez, SIB, Geneva, Switzerland
Ralf Herwig, MPI-MG, Berlin, Germany
Peter Kunszt, CSCS, Manno, Switzerland
Richard Lavery, CNRS IBCP, Lyon, France
Ignacio Llorente, UCM, Madrid, Spain
Luciano Milanesi, CNR-ITB, Milano, Italy
Douglas Thain, University Notre-Dame, Indiana, USA

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Dr. Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
Dept. of Animal Breeding and Genetics- SLU
Linnaeus centre for Bioinformatics
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