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<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Special Session on</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">ADVANCES IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE BIOINFORMATICS, SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">hosted by 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP) held in Turku, Finland,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">March 4-6 2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">The computational approach to biology is dealing with an enormous</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">availability of data and an extreme complexity in the modelling and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">analysis of life systems. Both these issues make the scaling-up promise</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">of High Performance Computing extremely appealing. Currently, the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">possibility of parallelising algorithms and analysis techniques</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">exploiting the various HPC emerging frameworks is receiving a lot of</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">interest. Examples include the porting of legacy applications to</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">clusters, e.g. those for genome analysis, and the use of distributed</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">technologies, cloud computing, on-chip supercomputing, GPGPUs, and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">massively parallel architectures for the treatment of high-throughput</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">data-sets (e.g. Xeon Phi implementations). Arguably, HPC will turn out</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">to be an unifying aspect of the future integration of Bioinformatics,</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Systems and Synthetic Biology.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">The aim of this special session is to present the latest efforts in HP</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Computational Biology and to foster the integration of researchers</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">interested in HPC and Computational Biology.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, HPC</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">experiences in:</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Algorithms for genomics and proteomics</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- DNA assembly and mapping</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Bio-Molecular sequence analysis</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Gene identification and annotation</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- SNP analysis and classification</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Differential gene expression analysis and clustering techniques</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Biological databases for big data management</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Modelling and simulation of biological systems</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Automated verification in Computational Biology</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Virtual labs and experiments</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- HPC-based approaches in Synthetic Biology</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- DNA-based biological circuits simulations</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Modelling of structural protein properties</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- Parallel architectures for Computational Biology</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">- System infrastructure for high throughput analysis</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Important dates</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Paper submission: 25th Aug. 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Acceptance notification: 25th Oct. 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Camera ready due: 10th </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,139);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span>Nov</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">. 2014</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Conference: 4th - 6th </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,139);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span>Mar</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">2015</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Submission guidelines</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt).</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors'</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Publication</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Proceedings will be published by the Conference Publishing Services</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">(CPS) in the same volume of the main track. Authors of accepted papers</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference.</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"> </span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">ISI Web of Knowledge.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Contacts</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Dr. Ivan Merelli</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Istitute for Biomedical Technologies</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">CNR - Italy</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">E-mail: </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,139);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span><a href="mailto:ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it" target="_blank">ivan.merelli@itb.cnr.it</a></span></span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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<br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Dr. Daniele D'Agostino</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">CNR - Italy</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:monospace;font-size:medium">
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