In conjunction with CCGrid 2015 - 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 4-7, 2015, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
The participation in the workshop is included in the full CCGrid 2015 conference fees. Registration is possible on the main conference's registration site.
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Coffee Break 9:30 - 10:30 Welcome and Keynotes |
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| 10:30 - 11:00 | Welcome and Introduction by the Workshop Chairs |
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Keynote: Science gateways for medical imaging: VIP, CBRAIN, and their interoperability
Tristan Glatard |
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Lunch Break 12:00 - 13:30 Session 1 |
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| 13:30 - 15:30 |
Analysing Cancer Genomics in the Elastic Cloud
Christopher Smowton, Crispin Miller, Wei Xing, Andoena Balla, Demetris Antoniades, George Pallis and Marios D. Dikaiakos Scaling Machine Learning for Target Prediction in Drug Discovery using Apache Spark Dries Harnie, Alexander E Vapirev, Jörg Kurt Wegner, Andrey Gedich, Marvin Steijaert, Roel Wuyts and Wolfgang De Meuter A Comparative Analysis of Scheduling Mechanisms for Virtual Screening Workflow in a Shared Resource Environment Bui The Quang, Jik-Soo Kim, Seungwoo Rho, Seoyoung Kim, Sangwan Kim, Soonwook Hwang, Emmanuel Medernach and Vincent Breton SparkSW: scalable distributed computing system for large-scale biological sequence alignment Guoguang Zhao, Cheng Ling and Hongdong Sun |
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Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:00 Session 2 |
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| 16:00 - 17:00 |
Classifications of computing sites to handle numerical variability Tristan Glatard and Alan Evans Multicenter Data Sharing for Collaboration in Sleep Medicine Maximilian Beier, Christoph Jansen, Geert Mayer, Thomas Penzel, Andrea Rodenbeck, René Siewert, Jie Wu and Dagmar Krefting Conclusions and closing |
In the last 20 years, computational methods have become an important part of developing emerging technologies for the field of bioinformatics and biomedicine. Research areas such as biomodelling, molecular dynamics, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, evolutionary biology, medical biology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, nanobiotechnology, biological engineering, pharmacology, genetics therapy, or automatic diagnosis, rely heavily on large scale computational resources as they need to manage Tbytes or Pbytes of data with large-scale structural and functional relationships, TFlops or PFlops of computing power for simulating highly complex models, or many-task processes and workflows for processing and analyzing data.
This new situation demands appropriate IT-infrastructures, where bioinformatic and medical data can be processed within an acceptable timespan - reaching from minutes in health-care applications to days in large-scale research projects. Large-scale distributed IT-systems such as Grids, Clouds and Big-Data-Environments are promising to address research, clinical and medical research community requirements. They allow for significant reduction of computational time for running large experiments, for speeding-up the development time for new algorithms, for increasing the availability of new methods for the research community, and for supporting large-scale multi-centric collaborations. However, specific challenges in the employment of such systems for bioinformatic applications such as security, reliability and user-friendliness, often impede straightforward adoption of existing solutions from other application domains.
This workshop aims at bringing together developers of bioinformatic and medical applications and researchers in the field of distributed IT systems. On the one hand, it addresses researchers who are already employing distributed infrastructure techniques in bioinformatic applications, in particular scientists developing data- and compute-intensive bioinformatic and medical applications that include multi-data studies, large-scale parameter scans or complex analysis pipelines. On the other hand, it addresses computer scientists working in the field of distributed systems interested in bringing new developments into bioinformatic and medical applications.
The goals are to exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, and to gather an overview of challenges (technologies, achievements, gaps, roadblocks). The workshop further intends to identify common requirements to lead future developments in collaboration between Life Sciences and Computing Sciences, and to collaboratively explore new ideas and approaches to successfully apply distributed IT-systems in translational research, clinical intervention, and decision-making.
Special Issue CFPExtended versions of distinguished selected papers accepted and presented at CCGrid-Life 2015, after further revisions, will be published in a special issue of the journal Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), impact factor: 2.639. The special issue is also open for original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought.
Contributions are expected but not restricted to the following topics:
Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts according to the IEEE format for conference proceedings. IEEE Manuscript Templates
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references.
The initial submission needs to be in pdf format.
Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal.
Manuscripts must be submitted to the submission online system EasyChair no later than the indicated submission deadline. EasyChair Submission Please register for an account as author if you do not already have one. If you cannot access the submission website or have difficulties completing your submission, please contact the workshop chairs for assistance.
All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers from the international program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, their interest for the research community, the quality of the use-case description, the description of the technical solution, the impact of the application and/or technical description and the status of the work.
All papers presented at the main conference and workshops of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing.
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