HiCOMB 2019 Workshop Call for Papers

18th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology

May 20, 2019
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
http://www.hicomb.org/

HiCOMB 2019 will be held in conjunction with the 33rd IEEE International
Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (http://ipdps.org/).


*** Paper submission deadline January 25, 2019 ***


Call for Papers:
High-performance computing (HPC) has become an integral part of research
and development in bioinformatics, computational biology, and medical
and health informatics. The goal of the HiCOMB workshop is to showcase
novel HPC research and technologies to solve data- and compute-intensive
problems arising from all areas of computational life sciences. The
workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks from
reputed researchers in the field.

For peer-reviewed papers, we invite authors to submit original and
previously unpublished work that are at the interface between the
"pillars" of modern day computational life sciences and HPC. For a
submission to be considered, it should span at least one area from each
of these two pillars. More specifically, we encourage submissions from
all areas of biology that can benefit from HPC, and from all areas of
HPC that need new development to address the class of computational
problems that originate from biology.

Areas of interest within computational life sciences include (but not
limited to)
* Biological sequence analysis (genome assembly, long/short read data
structures, read mapping, clustering, variant analysis, error
correction, genome annotation)
* Computational structural biology (protein structure, RNA structure)
* Functional genomics (transcriptomics, RNAseq/microarrays, proteomics)
* Systems biology and networks (biological network analysis, gene
regulatory networks, metabolomics, molecular pathways)
* Tools for integrated multi-omics and biological databases (network
construction, modeling, link inference)
* Phylogeny (phylogenetic tree reconstruction, molecular evolution)
* Microbes and microbiomes (taxonomical binning, classification,
clustering, annotation)
* Biomedical health analytics and biomedical imaging (electronic health
records, precision medicine, image analysis)
* Biomedical literature mining (text mining, ontology, natural language
processing)
* Computational epidemiology (infectious diseases, diffusion mechanisms)
* Phenomics and precision agriculture (IoT technologies, feature extraction)

Areas of interest within HPC include (but are not limited to)
* Parallel and distributed algorithms (scalable machine learning,
parallel graph/sequence analytics, combinatorial pattern matching,
optimization, parallel data structures, compression)
* Data-intensive computing techniques
(communication-avoiding/synchronization-reducing techniques,
locality-preserving techniques, big data streaming techniques)
* Parallel architectures (multicore, manycore, CPU/GPU, FPGA,
system-on-chip, hardware accelerators, energy-aware architectures,
hardware/software co-design)
* Memory and storage technologies (processing-in-memory, NVRAM, burst
buffers, 3D RAM, parallel/distributed I/O)
* Parallel programming models (libraries, domain specific languages,
compiler/runtime systems)
* Scientific workflows (data management, data wrangling, automated
workflows, productivity)
* Empirical evaluations (performance modeling, case-studies)

Submission guidelines:
To submit a paper, please upload a PDF file through EasyChair at the
HiCOMB 2019 Submission Site:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hicomb2019.
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced
double-column pages using a 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references (see
IPDPS Call for Papers for more details). All papers will be reviewed.
Proceedings of the workshops will be distributed at the conference and
are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the
conference.

Important Dates:
Workshop submissions due January 25, 2019
Author notification February 26, 2019
Final camera-ready papers due March 15, 2019
Workshop date May 20, 2019

Workshop Organization:
Program Chair
Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University

General Chairs
Alba Cristina M. A. de Melo, University of Brasilia
Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University