IEEE eScience 2011: Workshop on "Computing Advances in Life Science"

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Computationally intensive simulations and processing of large data sets have become a necessity in Life Science research. Full utilization of the available computing platforms has increased the demand for software optimized for performance, scalability and high-throughput. The workshop will bring together leading researchers to share their experiences in software development across all Life Science fields such as biology, biophysics, biochemistry, ecology, medicine, medical imaging, neuroscience, pharmacology and systems biology. The focus will be on discussions regarding methods, algorithms and frameworks for exploiting a wide spectrum of hardware resources such as clusters, grids and clouds; many-core and hybrid systems; GPGPUs, FPGAs and other non-traditional architectures. Ongoing challenges and issues with security and data protection will be discussed in a panel.

The workshop is part of the eScience2011 conference (www.escience2011.org, December 5-8, Stockholm). It is organized by the EU funded project ScalaLife and the Life Science Grid Community which are establishing community structures for provision of support to various aspects on computing in Life Sciences.

The workshop will take place in the Pillar Room of the Conference Centre (agenda link).
Workshop twitter hashtag: #cals2011.

We are looking forward to seeing you soon in Stockholm!

Program

Program chairs

Rossen Apostolov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
rossen@kth.se

Yannick Legré, HealthGrid Initiative, France
yannick.legre@healthgrid.org

Matthew Smith, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany
smith@dcsec.uni-hannover.de

Silvia D. Olabarriaga, Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam
s.d.olabarriaga@amc.uva.nl

Organizing projects

ScalaLife - Scalable Software Services for Life Science: www.scalalife.eu
LSGC - Life Science Grid Community: http://wiki.healthgrid.org/LSVRC:Index
M-Eco - Medical Ecosystem: www.meco-project.eu

Program Committee

Lilit Axner, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Mihai Duta, Oxford eScience Research Center, UK
Sascha Fahl, University of Hannover, Germany
Jose Luis Gelpi, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Spain
Marian Harbach, University of Hannover, Germany
Dagmar Krefting, Charité Berlin, Germany
Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
Yassene Mohamed, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Helmut Satzger, Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Germany
Daniela Skrowny, University of Göttingen, Germany

Conference access

Address

The e-Science 2011 conference from 5-8 December, will take place at the Stockholm City Conference Centre/Norra Latin located in the central part of Stockholm at Drottninggatan 71B.

Registration

The registration desk will be open the following hours:
Monday 5 December 08.00 - 17.00
Tuesday 6 December 08.00 - 17.00
Wednesday 7 December 08.30 - 16.00
Thursday 8 December 08.30 - 13.00

Conference Scientific Program

The latest program can be found at http://agenda.albanova.se/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=2933

You can also get the conference program on your mobile. All participants equipped with smartphones with Android or iOS operating systems, can download the mobile application conference assistant - Conference4me. Read more about this at http://escience2011.org/conference4me

Internet

An open wireless Internet access will be available in the conference centre with login CCC and password Stockholm.

Weather Forecast

The weather forecast predicts temperatures around 0 C possibly also some snow. Updated forecasts can be found at
http://www.smhi.se/vadret/vadret-i-sverige/land?pp=http://www.smhi.se/pr...

Travel

Transportation Card

A transportation card will be sold at the registration desk. The card is valid on buses, subway and commuter trains in Stockholm and surrounding areas. It is not valid for transport to and from Arlanda Airport.
24 hours: SEK 50
48 hours: SEK 100

Traveling by Air

Stockholm/Arlanda Airport is located about 70 kilometers north of Stockholm City and there are several alternatives for you to get to and from the airport:

Arlanda Express is the train service that links Stockholm City with the Airport (20 minutes trip).

Taxi. We recommend that you request a fixed price from the airport to the city, approximately SEK 500.

Coach/Bus. There is a direct bus connection from the Airport to the city. The trip takes 40 minutes and costs SEK 110.

Important dates

Full Papers Due:        July 1st, 2011
Author Notifications:   August 17th, 2011
Early registration:       October 17th, 2011
Presentation:              December 5th, 2011

Call for papers

Topics of interest include:

• Multicore/manycore architectures in life science applications
• GPU support for life science applications
• Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing in the life sciences
• Security of computing environments for the life sciences
• Privacy in environments for the life sciences
• Parallelization of compute- or data-intensive tasks in the life sciences
• Data handling, integration and visualization in the life sciences
• Distributed infrastructures for life science applications
• Programming paradigms for computing in the life sciences
• Tools and programming environments supporting computing in the life sciences
• Scheduling in computing environments for life science applications
• Workflow management and remote collaboration in the life sciences
• System level support for computing in the life sciences
• Fault-tolerance of distributed life science applications
• Scalability of infrastructures and applications in life science applications

Submission guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Templates are available from here: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/con....

Authors should submit a PDF or PostScript (level 2) file that will print on a PostScript printer. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the submissions page at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cals2011.

NOTE: papers should NOT be submitted to the main e-Science 2011 paper submission system, as they will not be directed to the workshop organizers. It is a requirement that at least one author of each accepted paper attends the conference.