[MOBY-l] (CFP) Workshop MODERN COMPUTER TOOLS FOR THE BIOSCIENCES - MBIO'09, Shanghai

[Paul Gordon]

Forwarding as potentially of interest...

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MODERN COMPUTER TOOLS FOR THE BIOSCIENCES - MBIO'09

Second Edition of the Modern BIO Workshop
Organized at the International Conference CCGrid 2009
May 2009, Shanghai, China

http://gbio-pbil.ibcp.fr/modernbio

INTEGRATING BIOLOGICAL DATA AND TOOLS

The Workshop on 'Modern computer tools for the biosciences' is a one- 
day event focussing on topics including the added-value of the Grid  
for Bioinformaticians, Biologists and Medical scientists, and the  
readiness of the Grid for these end-users The grid concept has already  
produced a variety of middlewares, components and platforms that are  
available around the World. But are facilites ready to be exploited by  
the true end-user? There are several challenging points that are still  
under development in the biosciences domain. The workshop will focus  
on some of these critical areas, notably, sharing biological data  
within distributed filesystems and database management systems,  
providing developers with programmatic usage of independant remote  
components such as web services or standard grid APIs, providing end- 
users with uniform grid access including ergonomic and efficient  
portals, and creating workflow on distributed resources, ...


TOPICS
Topics of special interest, but not limited to, are the following.

High-throughput and high-performance Bioinformatics
- Genomics
- Proteomics
- Molecular structure prediction, modelling and dynamic
- System biology
- Tools for NextGen sequencing

Biological data management
- Data integration, semantic and ontologies
- Grid distributed filesystems
- Distributed database management systems

Bioinformatics tools integration
- Programmatic usage of independant remote components: Web services,  
grid APIs
- Web Portals and remote interface
- Workflow enactor and interface
- Parallel and distributed applications

KEYDATES

- Submission Deadline: 15th December 2008
- Notification: 15th January  2009
- Camera Ready deadline: 15th February 2009

PROCEEDINGS

Authors are invited to submit a full length 6-page "original" research  
paper of double column text using single spaced 10 pt size type on  
8.5x11 paper, as per IEEE manuscript guidelines. Paper  
submission instructions will be placed on the conference web-page. The  
proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA,  
and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library..

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to  
register and present the paper. Authors must register and submit their  
paper through the online submission system.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

CHAIR

Dr Christophe Blanchet
Institute of Biology and Chemistry of Proteins

Dr Erik Bongcam-Rudloff
The Linnaeus Centre for Bioinformatics

Dr Rodrigo Lopez
European Bioinformatics Institute

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Sadaf Alam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Tennessee, USA
- Christophe Caron,INRA MIG, Jouy-en-Josas, France
- Frederic Desprez, INRIA LIP ENS Lyon, Lyon, France
- Andreas Gisel, CNR-ITB, Bari, Italy
- Paul Gordon, University of Calgary, Canada
- Patricia Hernandez, SIB, Geneva, Switzerland
- Ralf Herwig, MPI-MG, Berlin, Germany
- Richard Lavery, CNRS IBCP, Lyon, France
- Ignacio Llorente, UCM, Madrid, Spain
- Luciano Milanesi, CNR-ITB, Milano, Italy
- Omer Rana, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK
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Dr Christophe BLANCHET					CNRS, France
Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Proteines		IBCP
Christophe.Blanchet at ibcp.fr         http://gbio-pbil.ibcp.fr/cblanchet