Computational Biology are related disciplines are fast emerging as an important area 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 and related life sciences areas. 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
* Parallel algorithms in chemical genetics and chemical informatics

Submission guidelines:

Papers reporting on 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 here. 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
Workshop Paper Due: November 30, 2009
Author Notification: December 25, 2009
Camera-ready Paper Due: February 1, 2010

Workshop Co-Chairs
Srinivas Aluru
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engg. and
Lawrence H. Baker Center for Bioinformatics
& Biological Statistics
Iowa State University
3227 Coover Hall
Ames, IA 50011, USA
Phone: +1.515.294.3539
Email: aluru@iastate.edu David A. Bader
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332 USA
Phone: +1.404.894.3152
Email: bader@cc.gatech.edu
Program Chair
George Karypis
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Email: karypis@cs.umn.edu
http://www.cs.umn.edu/~karypis
Program Committee

* Pratul K. Agarwal, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
* Inanc Birol, Genome Sciences Centre, British Columbia, Canada
* Georg Fuellen, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany
* Ananth Grama, Purdue University, Indiana, USA
* Sandeep Patel, University of Delaware, USA
* Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, Canada
* Huzefa Rangwala, George Mason University, Virginia, USA
* Alexandros Stamatakis, Technische Universität Munchen, Munich, Germany
* John Stone, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
* Evripidis Sotiriadis, Tech. Univ. of Crete, Greece
* Denis Trystram, LIG, France
* Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
* Ian Watson, Lilly, Indiana, USA
* Tiffani Williams, Texas A&M University, Texas, USA
* Ying Zhao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
* Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

For up-to-date information about this workshop, please visit http://www.hicomb.org/.