BioGrid'04

Second International Workshop on
Biomedical Computations on the Grid

held in conjunction with

4-th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid

Chicago, Illinois, USA
April 19-22, 2004

BioGrid Registration: The BioGrid workshop is part of the 4-th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid). Please register at the CCGrid'04 Web Site

SHORT DESCRIPTION OF THE FIELD:

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, computing clusters, storage systems, data sources and instruments, etc.), thus allowing them to be used as a single, unified resource for solving large-scale computing and data-intensive computing applications. Many biological and biomedical problems, such as molecular modeling for drug design, genetic/biochemical network, protein-protein interactions, phylogeny reconstruction, genetic linkage analysis, protein structure prediction, etc., require computationally intensive numerical operations on a large and, in many cases, distributed data domain. Similar other 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.

SCOPE:

The focus of this workshop will be on the design, analysis, and implementation of high-level architecture-independent processing, storage, and retrieval technologies in the Grid environments for potential biological and biomedical applications. Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and experimental) in parallel and distributed biomedical computations in the grid environments are encouraged. However, papers reporting results from broader biology-related domains, such as clinical practice, pharmaceutics, medical data storage and processing, and computerised epidemiology, etc., are also welcome.

Areas include, but are not limited to, the following:

Molecular Modeling for Drug Design
Computational Genomics
Genetic Linkage Analysis
Molecular Sequence Analysis
Phylogeny Reconstruction
Computational Proteomics
Determination of Protein Structures
Identification of Genes and Regulatory Patterns
Biological Information Retrieval
Genetic/Biochemical Networks
Biomedical Modeling and Simulation
Biomedical Image Simulation
Distributed Medical Databases
Biomedical Image Processing
Integration of Biological Informaiton
Data Mining and Visualization of Biomedical Data
Text Mining of Biological Information Bases
Grid-Based Approaches to Systems Biology

BioGrid'04 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 24, 2003
Author notification:	January 10, 2004
Camera-ready papers due:	January 15, 2004
CCGrid conference:	April 19-22, 2004
Bio-Grid workshop:	TBA

Information for authors:

Papers presented at BioGrid'04 will be published as part of the 4-th IEEE/ACM CCGrid proceedings, as well as in the IEEE Digital Library.

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 8 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
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran	University of Connecticut, USA

Program Committee (Confirmed Members as of Nov. 17)

Reda Ammar	University of Connecticut, USA
Vincent Breton	Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Jack Dongarra	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Werner Dubitzky	University of Ulster, School of Biomedical Sciences, UK
A. Keith Dunker	Indiana University, School of Medicine, Indianapolis, Indiana, USA
Gregor von Laszewski	Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Natalia Maltsev	Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Michael Mascagni	Florida State University, USA
Russ Miller	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Sofie Norager	European Comission -DG Information Society
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran	University of Connecticut, USA
Joel Saltz	The Ohio State University, USA
Mitsuhisa Sato	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Shinji Shimojo	Osaka University, Japan
Dong-Guk Shin	University of Connecticut, USA

This event is supported by:

	.	IEEE Computer Society
	.	IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing