BioGrid'07

Fifth International Workshop on
Biomedical Computations on the Grid

held co-located with

Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 14-17, 2007

BioGrid Registration: The BioGrid workshop is part of the 7-th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid). Please register at the CCGrid 2007 Web Site.

News Update:

(3/07) BioGrid is scheduled on May 17.
(1/19) Please note that the final version of accepted papers should be limited to 6 pages.
Notices will be sent out shortly.
(12/19) A one-week extension will be automatically granted for prospective authors.
(12/19) Confirmed talks as of Dec. 19 are listed. More to come.
(12/2) The information about the journal special issue coupled with 07 BioGrid will soon be announced. Please stay tuned.
(12/2) Please note the following, per Dr. Fabio Kon:
> Workshop papers will be distributed to all CCGrid participants on a CD published by IEEE Computer Society. The papers will also be
> available electronically in the IEEE digital library.
(9/05) Information regarding the BioGrid-07 committees, a journal special issue and the important dates will soon be posted to this webpage.

SHORT DESCRIPTION and SCOPE:

Modern grid technologies facilitate the coupling of geographically distributed resources and offer consistent and secure access irrespective of users' physical location or access point. This enables sharing, selection, and aggregation of a wide variety of distributed resources, such as supercomputers, computing clusters, storage systems, data sources and instruments, etc., and allows them to be used as a single, unified resource.

This workshop focuses on the development, deployment and evaluation of grid technologies in broadly biology-related research and practice. Specifically, the workshop concentrates on all aspects of grid-enabled infrastructures, testbeds, management and security in support of the following biology, medical and health related areas:

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 Database Management and Integration
Biomedical Image Processing
Integration of Biological Information
Data Mining and Visualization of Biomedical Data
Text Mining of Biological Information Bases
Text Mining of Medical Information Bases
Grid-Based Approaches to Systems Biology
Tele-systems for Diagnostic, Prognostic, and Therapeutic Applications
Health Data Storage and Retrieval
Medical Imaging: Management, Analysis, Processing and Simulation
Social Healthcare
Pharmaceutics and Clinical Trials
Computerized Epidemiology
Collaborative and Proprietary Health Grids
Integrative Bioinformatics and Medical Informatics Systems

In addition to the focus areas, research articles reporting on original results of developing, deploying and evaluating grid techniques in novel topics in bioinformatics, clinical informatics, bioimaging and public health informatics are also solicited.

BioGrid'07 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:	Dec. 20, 2006 (with one-week automatic extension)
Author notification:	Jan. 20, 2007
Camera-ready papers due:	January 29, 2007
CCGrid conference:	May 14-17, 2007
Bio-Grid workshop:	May 17, 2007

Information for prospective authors:

Papers presented at BioGrid'07 will be published as part of the 7-th IEEE CCGrid proceedings, as well as in the IEEE Digital Library. Extended versions of selected regular papers will be invited to appear in a journal special issue (to be announced shortly). Journals associated with the BioGrid in the past include the following:

IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine (2006 BioGrid)
Journal of Clinical Monitoring and Computing, Springer (2005 BioGrid)
Parallel Computing Journal, Elsevier (2004 BioGrid)

Submissions should be in PostScript (level 2) or PDF format that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers must be original work. This year we accept both regular (up to 8 pages) and short (2 pages) papers, both 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.

Technical Presentations:

Porting PHYLIP phylogenetic package on the Desktop GRID platform XtremWeb-CH
Nabil Abdennadher and Regis Boesch

Parameter Sweeps for Functional MRI Research in the "Virtual Laboratory for e-Science" Project
Silvia D. Olabarriaga, Aart J. Nederveen and Breanndan O Nuallain

Workflow Management in a Protein Clustering Application
J. L. Vazquez-Poletti, E. Huedo R. S. Montero and I. M. Llorente

Large Scale Deployment of Molecular Docking Application on Computational Grid infrastructures
for Combating Malaria, Vinod Kasam, Jean Salzemann, Nicolas Jacq, Astrid Mass and Vincent Breton

Confirmed Talks:

ViroLab: A virtual laboratory for Infectious Diseases
(http://www.science.uva.nl/research/pscs/papers/sloot.html)
Speaker: Peter Sloot (Univ. of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Seeing is Knowing: Visualization of Parameter-Parameter Dependencies of Biomedical Network Models
Speaker: Akihiko Konagaya (Riken Genomic Sciences Center, Japan)

The Biogrid and your intranet on a tablet pc or pocket pc at patient's bedside, to improve the quality of care
in anesthesiology and intensive care.
Speaker: Vincenzo Lanza (Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Italy)

Coordinated Computing in Structural Biology
Speaker: Piotr Sliz (Harvard Univ. and HHMI, US)

Travel fellowships:

BioGrid 2007 is pleased to announce funding opportunities for student presenters of accepted regular or short BioGrid papers. Candidates must be registered in a degree program (undergraduate or graduate) at an accredited university or college at the time of BioGrid workshop. Interested individuals should contact Dr. Chun-Hsi Huang (huang@cse.uconn.edu) for details.

BioGrid-07 Personnel

Program Committee (as of 11/21/06)

Piotr Bala	Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland
Howard Bilofsky	PCBI, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Vincent Breton	Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire de Clermont-Ferrand, France
Susumu Date	Osaka University, Japan
Werner Dubitzky	University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Jauvane C. de Oliveira	National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
Gilson A. Giraldi	National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
Ian Greenshields	University of Connecticut, USA
Andrew Jones	Cardiff University, UK
Akihiko Konagaya	Riken Genomic Sciences Center, Japan
Vincenzo Lanza	Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Italy
Craig Lee	Aerospace Corporation, USA
Hing Yan Lee	National Grid Office, Singapore
Yannick Legre	HealthGrid Association, France
Natalia Maltsev	Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Ion Mandoiu	University of Connecticut, USA
Jun Ni	University of Iowa, USA
Mitsuhisa Sato	University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kenji Satou	Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Japan
Bertil Schmidt	Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Piotr Sliz	HHMI and Harvard Medical School, USA
Tony Solomonides	University of the West of England, UK
Li-San Wang	University of Pennsylvania, USA

Advising/Steering Committee (as of 11/21/06)

Rajkumar Buyya	University of Melbourne, Australia
Jack Dongarra	University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Ian Foster	University of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, USA
John Holmes	University of Pennsylvania, USA
Russ Miller	State University of New York at Buffalo, USA
Haruki Nakamura	Osaka University, Japan
Keith Ruskin	Yale University, USA
Joel Saltz	Ohio State University, USA
Peter Sloot	University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Organization Committee

Chun-Hsi Huang	University of Connecticut, USA
Vincenzo Lanza	Buccheri La Ferla Hospital, Italy
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran	University of Connecticut, USA
Mitsuhisa Sato	University of Tsukuba, Japan

BioGrid 2007 Sponsors and Partners:

	.	IEEE Computer Society
	.	IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
	.	National Library of Medicine, US
	.	HEALTHGRID Association