<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br>Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP!<br><br>--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br></div><div>============================================================<br><br>FIRST INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON CLOUD FOR BIO (C4Bio)<br><br>to be held as part of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014<br><br>Chicago, USA, May 26-29, 2014<br><br><a href="http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~c4bio2014">http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~c4bio2014</a><br><br>BACKGROUND<br>----------------------<br><br>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.<br><br>As applications require more and more computational resources every day in order to increase the knowledge of biological and health processes, bio disciplines create new challenges of scale for computation, storage, and interpretation of petascale data that are difficult to solve with single clusters. Cloud computing has the potential to help solve these problems by offering a utility model based on highly flexible computing and storage capabilities and abstraction layers that allows overcoming many of the constraints present in dedicated systems. It may also increase research productivity by allowing sharing applications, tools, and algorithms in an easy way.<br><br>The aim of the workshop is to promote the synergies of the cloud computing and bio communities by exploring applications developed in clouds, cloud systems enhancements for bio, and new trends and needs shared between both communities. Thus, this workshop will feature articles that discuss the application of cloud computing to bioinformatics and biomedicine, including solutions to area problems and architectural adaptation of cloud systems to fit those problems.<br><br><br>TOPICS<br>-----------<br><br>Areas of interest of the workshop include, but are not limited to:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cloud-based bioinformatics applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cloud-based biomedicine applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cloud-based application in public health systems<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Molecular Dynamics<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Data intensive biomedical applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and biomedicine<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Ontologies and biomedical text mining using clouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Biological data mining and visualization using clouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Managing large scale biological and biomedical databases using clouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Visualization and analysis of biomedical images<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Integration and analysis of biomedical data<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Biosignals processing using clouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Computational Modeling and Data Integration<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Privacy issues for cloud-based biomedical applications<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Security challenges in big data and biomedicine<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Biocloud services and resource specification<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cloud Computing architectures for bio*<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Data-centric versus computer-centric cloud architectures<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Hybrid infrastructures (cloud/physics) for bio applications.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Resource provisioning for bioclouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Distributed cloud solutions<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cloud solutions for biosensors and mobility<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Improved energy consumption of bio applications using clouds<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Programming paradigms and tools for bio-applications<br><br>SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES<br>-------------------------------<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Submission: February 10th, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Author notification: March 1st, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Camera Ready papers due: March 14th, 2014<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Conference: May 26th-29th, 2014<br><br><br><br>COMMITTEE<br>------------------<br><br>Workshop Organizers:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Prof. Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Dr. Javier Garcia-Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Dr. Manuel Desco. Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madrid. Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Prof. Dana Petcu. University of Timisoara, Romania.<br><br>Program Committee:<br><br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Ivona Brandic. Vienna University of Technology, Austria.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Alejandro Calderon, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - David E. Singh, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Geoffrey Fox. Indiana University, USA.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Felix Garcia-Carballeira. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain. <br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Jose Daniel Garcia, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Wolfgang Gentzsch. The UberCloud, USA.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Pesole Graziano. University of Bari, Italy.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Hsien-Da Huang. National Chiao Tung University, HsinChu, Taiwan.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Florin Isaila, Argonne National Labs, USA.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Cedrid Notredame. Center For Genomic Simulation, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Javier Pascau, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Jorge Ripoll, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Omer F. Rana. Cardiff University, UK.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Saman K. Halgamuge. The University of Melbourne, Australia.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Domenico Talia. University of Calabria, Italy.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Peter J. Tonellato. Center for Biomedical Informatics, Harvard Medical School, USA.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Oswaldo Trelles.University of Malaga. Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Jose Luis Vazquez-Poletti, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez. University of Extremadura, Spain.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Tin Wee Tan. National University of Singapore. Singapore.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Roel Wuyts, IMEC, Belgium.<br><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span> - Laurence T. Yang. St. Francis Xavier University, Canada.<br><br>PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES<br>-------------------------------------------------<br><br>Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. 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 using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.<br><br>Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages.<br><br>The paper submission online system is open: <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c4bio2014">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=c4bio2014</a> </div><div><br></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; border-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">=============================================================<br>Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) <br>NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey </div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 <br>94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Phone: (732) 993-8837</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Fax: (732) 445-0593</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu<br>WWW: <a href="http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero">http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero</a><br>=============================================================</div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br></div></span></div></span></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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