<html><head><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>[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP due to cross-posting]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br>In conjunction with CCGrid 2015 - 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 4-7, 2015, Shenzhen, Guangdong, China</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></div><div><b><i><a href="http://xc0.r.mailjet.com/link/1nvy/zloyhqk/1/K7L2221j0nRGssQWogGogA/aHR0cDovL2xzZ2Mub3JnL2NjZ3JpZC1saWZlLw">http://xc0.r.mailjet.com/link/1nvy/zloyhqk/1/K7L2221j0nRGssQWogGogA/aHR0cDovL2xzZ2Mub3JnL2NjZ3JpZC1saWZlLw</a></i></b></div><div><br></div><b>Welcome</b><div><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>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</div><div><br></div><div><b>Topics of Interest</b></div><div><br>Contributions are expected but not restricted to the following topics:<br><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Detailed application use-cases highlighting achievements and roadblocks<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Exploitation of distributed IT resources for Life Sciences, HealthCare and research applications, for example medical imaging, disease modeling, bioinformatics, Public health informatics, drug discovery, clinical trials<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Service and/or algorithm design and implementation applicable to medical and bioinformatic applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Improved energy consumption of bioinformatic applications using clouds<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Molecular Dynamics<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Clouds for big data manipulation in bioinformatics and medicine<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ontologies and biomedical text mining<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Biological data mining and visualization<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Error handling and fault tolerance<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatic and medical data management<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Big Medical and Bioinformatic Data applications and solutions<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Data privacy, security and access control<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Development environments for distributed bioinformatic applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Programming paradigms and tools for bioinformatic applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Scientific gateways and user environments targeting distributed medical and bioinformatic applications<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dedicated distributed infrastructures and HPC systems<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis pipelines<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Success stories and show stoppers</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Key Dates</b></div><div><b><br></b>Papers Due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jan 8th, 2015<br>Author Notifications<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Feb 15th, 2015<br>Camera Ready Papers Due<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Mar 15th, 2015<br>Conference<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>May 4th-7th, 2015<br><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Workshop Chairs</b><br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Javier Garcia Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Sandra Gesing, U. Notre Dame, IN, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France</div><div><br></div><b>Steering Committee</b><br><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Silvia D. Olabarriaga, AMC / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Aaron Golden, A. Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Manuel Desco, Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madri, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania</div></div><div><br></div><div><b>Programme Committee</b></div><div><br><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Christian Barillot, CNRS / IRISA, France<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ignacio Blanquer, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Steve Brewer, University of Southampton, UK<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Manuel Desco, Hospital Gregorio Maranon de Madri, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Alban Gaignard, CNRS, France<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Javier Garcia Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tristan Glatard, CNRS, France<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Aaron Golden, A. Einstein College of Medicine, NY, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ron Kikinis, Harvard Medical School, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Jens Krόger, University of Tόbingen, Germany</div></div><div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Yannick Legre, EGI, Amsterdam, Netherlands<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Ivan Merelli, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Segrate, Italy<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Luciano Milanesi, CNT ITB, Italy<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Johan Montagnat, CNRS/I3S, France<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Silvia D. Olabarriaga, AMC / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Horacio Perez-Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Jonathan Silverstein, CCRI, NorthShore University HealthSystem, IL, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> Tony Solomonides, CCRI, NorthShore University HealthSystem, IL, USA<br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span> James Taylor, Emory University, USA</div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Submission Guidelines</b></div><div><b><br></b>Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts according to the IEEE format for conference proceedings. 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 <a href="http://xc0.r.mailjet.com/link/1nvy/zloyhqk/2/LAVZYy5cKochYFC55Vbzwg/aHR0cHM6Ly9lYXN5Y2hhaXIub3JnL2NvbmZlcmVuY2VzLz9jb25mPWNjZ3JpZGxpZmUyMDE1">EasyChair</a> no later than the indicated submission deadline. 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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</div><div><br></div><br><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
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