<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.]</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><h1 itemprop="name" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);">Special Issue on Clusters, Cloud and Grid on Life Sciences </h1><h1 itemprop="name" class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-size: 1.4em; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 1.4em; font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; background-color: rgb(243, 243, 243);">Future Generation Computer Systems</h1><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. </p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to:</p><ul class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; list-style: none; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Detailed application use-cases highlighting achievements and roadblocks</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">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</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Improved energy consumption of bioinformatic applications</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Ontologies and biomedical text mining</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Biological data mining and visualization</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Error handling and fault tolerance</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatic and medical data management</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Data privacy, security and access control</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Development environments for distributed bioinformatic applications</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Programming paradigms and tools for bioinformatic applications</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Scientific gateways and user environments targeting distributed medical and bioinformatic applications</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Dedicated distributed infrastructures and HPC systems</li><li class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 15px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; list-style: disc outside none;">Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis pipelines</li></ul><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong class="">Submission Guidelines</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">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. Exceptions are extended high-quality papers presented at CCGrid-Life 2015. These must have at least 30% difference from the original conference papers. Papers will be peer reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this Special Issue. The journal editors will make final decisions on the acceptance of the papers.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Future Generation Computer Systems at <a href="http://1nvy.mj.am/link/1nvy/6n7v3vz/1/3dmyShiaJ0ZPeJpIYSoFtw/aHR0cDovLzFudnkubWouYW0vbGluay8xbnZ5LzZuN3V1MjQvMi8tT3I0QzlXT3RJcHljZkd6bWZPVjFnL2FIUjBjRG92THpGdWRua3ViV291WVcwdmJHbHVheTh4Ym5aNUx6WnVOelIyZUhVdk1TOU5iSE00V0UxeFkxY3hkMkZoYUVsNVprcFZWR1pSTDJGSVVqQmpSRzkyVERKV2JHTjVOV3hpU0U1c1pHMXNiR05wTldwaU1qQjJXbTFrYW1ONU9B" class="">www.ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/</a>. Authors should select “SI: CCGrid-Life” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process.</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong class="">Important Dates</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Paper submission due: July 31, 2015<br class="">First-round acceptance notification: October 31, 2015<br class="">Revision submission: December 14, 2015<br class="">Notification of final decision: January 31, 2016<br class="">Submission of final paper: March 31, 2016<br class="">Publication date: June 30, 2016 (Planned)</p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong class="">Guest Editors</strong></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA<br class=""><a href="mailto:sandra.gesing@nd.edu" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 117, 155); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">sandra.gesing@nd.edu</a></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France<br class=""><a href="mailto:johan.montagnat@cnrs.fr" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 117, 155); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">johan.montagnat@cnrs.fr</a></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain<br class=""><a href="mailto:jesus.carretero@uc3m.es" target="_blank" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 117, 155); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">jesus.carretero@uc3m.es</a></p><p class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; line-height: 18px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif;">Javier Garcia Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain<br class=""><a href="mailto:fjblas@inf.uc3m.es" class="" style="color: rgb(0, 117, 155); text-decoration: none; outline: none;">fjblas@inf.uc3m.es</a></p><div class=""><font color="#424242" class=""><b class="">More info at</b>:</font> <span class="" style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://1nvy.mj.am/link/1nvy/6n7v3vz/2/0ZmkZydmjjo-Y4xH_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" class="">www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-papers/special-issue-on-clusters-cloud-and-grid-on-life-sciences/</a></span></div><div apple-content-edited="true" class="">
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