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HiCOMB 2007 - 6th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (its Web site) held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (its Web site), March 26, 2007, Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, California, USA. Computational Biology is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The large size of biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological problems and the ability to deal with error-prone data all result in large run-time and memory requirements. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance computing solutions to problems arising from molecular biology. We are especially interested in parallel algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms, large scale data mining techniques, and design of high-performance software. The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Bioinformatic databases * Computational genomics * Computational proteomics * DNA assembly, clustering and mapping * Gene expression and microarrays * Gene identification and annotation * Parallel algorithms for biological analysis * Parallel architectures for biological applications * Molecular evolution * Molecular sequence analysis * Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms * Protein structure prediction and modeling * String data structures and algorithms Submission Guidelines: ---------------------- Papers reporting original research (both theoretical and experimental) in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology are sought. Surveys of important recent results and directions are also welcome. To submit a paper, upload a postscript or PDF copy of the paper from the workshop web page (http://www.hicomb.org/). The paper should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages (US Letter or A4 size) in 11pt font or larger. All papers will be reviewed. IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press on CD-ROM and will also be available in the IEEE Digital Library. Important Dates: ---------------- November 20, 2006 Workshop Submissions Due December 18, 2006 Author Notification January 22, 2007 Camera-ready Paper Due Workshop Co-Chairs: ------------------- Srinivas Aluru Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg. Iowa State University 3227 Coover Hall Ames, IA 50011, USA Phone: +1.515.294.3539 Fax: +1.515.294.8432 Email: aluru@iastate.edu David A. Bader College of Computing Georgia Institute of Technology Atlanta, GA 30332 USA Phone: +1.404.894.3152 http://www.cc.gatech.edu/~bader Program Co-Chairs: -------------- Shankar Subramaniam Dept. of Bioengineering Dept. of Chemistry and Biochemistry San Diego Supercomputing Center University of California at San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093 Phone: +1 (858) 822-0986 Fax: +1 (858) 822-3752 Email: shankar@sdsc.edu Ananth Grama Purdue University Department of Computer Sciences 305 N. University Street West Lafayette, Indiana, 47907-2107 Phone: +1 (765) 494-6964 Fax: +1 (765) 494-0739 Email: ayg@cs.purdue.edu Program Committee: ------------------ Alberto Apostolico, Accademia dei Lincei & Georgia Tech Joel Bader, Johns Hopkins University Vineet Bafna, University of California San Diego Jesus Izaguirre, University of Notre Dame George Karypis, University of Minnesota Daisuke Kihara, Purdue University Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota Satoru Miyano, HGC, University of Tokyo Ben Raphael, Brown University Naren Ramakrishnan, Virginia Tech Joel Saltz, Ohio State Mona Singh, Princeton University Tandy Warnow, University of Texas, Austin