BioGrid'03

First International Workshop on
Biomedical Computations on the Grid

held in conjunction with

at Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

BioGrid Registration: The BioGrid workshop is part of the 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid). Please register at the CCGrid'03 Web Site

Workshop Scope:

Grid computing allows to couple geographically distributed resources and offers consistent and inexpensive access to resources irrespective of their physical location or access point. It enables sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of geographically distributed computational resources (such as supercomputers, compute clusters, storage systems, data sources, instruments, people), thus allowing them to be used as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale computing and data-intensive computing applicatinos. A typical example is the molecular modelling for drug design. Many other such applications in biomedical research relying on efficient algorithms and the development of databases that manage complex biological information generated by genome projects can use the power of the grid.

Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in parallel and distributed biomedical computations on the cluster or grid enviromnents are sought. Papers reporting on original research on platforms other than the grid but presenting future relevance to the grids are also welcome. Areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

Molecular Modelling for Drug Design
Computational Genomics
Molecular Sequence Analysis
Computational Proteomics
Determination of Protein Structures
Identification of Genes and Regulatory Patterns
Biological Information Retrieval
Gene Networks
Biomedical Modeling and Simulation
Biomedical Image Simulation
Distributed Medical Databases
Biomedical Image Processing

BioGrid'03 provides a forum for both researchers and commercial developers. It is the place to meet and discuss hardware and software issues involved in the design and use of the cluster/grid environments to support biological and health related researches.

Schedule:

Papers due:	December 15, 2002 (extended to Dec. 22, due to requests)
Author notification:	January 25, 2003
Camera-ready papers due:	February 15, 2002
CCGrid conference:	May 12-15, 2003
Bio-Grid workshop:	TBA

Information for authors:

Papers presented at BioGrid'03 will be published as part of the 3rd IEEE/ACM CCGrid proceedings.

Submissions should be in PostScript (level 2) or PDF format that will print on a PostScript printer.
Papers must be original work, and consist of up to 6 pages of double-column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per the IEEE manuscript guidelines. All submissions will be acknowledged and peer-reviewed. Please send your files and direct all your queries via email to huang@cse.uconn.edu.

Committees:

Organizing Committee

Chun-Hsi Huang	University of Connecticut, USA
Eugene Santos	University of Connecticut, USA

Program Committee (Confirmed members only)

Reda Ammar	University of Connecticut, USA
Vincent Breton	Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Werner Dubitzky	University of Ulster, School of Biomedical Sciences, UK
Chin-Wen Ho	National Central University, Taiwan
Michael Mascagni	Florida State University, USA
Russ Miller	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Laurent Mouchard	Universite de Rouen, France
Sofie Norager	European Comission -DG Information Society
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran	University of Connecticut, USA
Alan Robinson	European Bioinformatics Institute, UK
Joel Saltz	The Ohio State University, USA
Mitsuhisa Sato	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Eunice Santos	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA
Johan Montagnat	French National Center for Scientific Research, France
Philip Papadopoulos	University of California at San Diego, USA
Shinji Shimojo	Osaka University, Japan
Nian-Feng Tzeng	University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA

This event is supported by:

	.	IEEE Computer Society
	.	IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing