-------- Original-Nachricht -------- Betreff: ******************************************************* Call-For-Papers Datum: Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:59:39 +0200 Von: El-ghazali Talbi El-ghazali.Talbi@lifl.fr Firma: "OptimaNumerics" An: Computational Science Mailing List computational.science@lists.optimanumerics.com

Special Issue of the Journal of Parallel Distributed Computing (JPDC)

"Grids in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology" ********************************************************

Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. Research and development in bioinformatics and computational biology create and develop advanced information and computational techniques to manage and extract useful information from the DNA/RNA/protein sequence being generated by high throughput technologies (e.g. DNA microarrays, DNA sequencers). It is the comprehensive application of mathematics (e.g., probability and graph theory), statistics, science (e.g., biochemistry), and computer science (e.g., computer algorithms and machine learning) to the understanding of living systems. Those techniques are extremely computationally or data intensive, providing motivation for using Grids. Grids are an enabling technology that permit the transparent coupling of geographically-dispersed resources (machines, networks, data storage, visualization devices, and scientific instruments) for large-scale distributed applications. Grids provide several important benefits for users and applications to share: computing and data storage, knowledge, instruments, etc). This special issue of the Journal Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) is seeking original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances in using Grids in bioinformatics and computational biology. *Topics of Interest Include but Are Not Limited To:* GRIDs in: * Bio-ontology and data mining, Data visualization

* DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping, Molecular evolution and phylogeny

* Gene expression and micro-arrays, Gene identification and annotation

* Molecular modeling and simulation, Molecular sequence analysis * Protein structure prediction * Sequence assembly, Sequence search and alignment

* Bio data intensive applications, Grid infrastructures, middleware and tools for bio data *Submission Guidelines: *The manuscripts must be submitted to http://www.ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. A paper must not exceed 25 pages.** *Important Dates:* * Full papers submission: Sept 10, 2005 * Notification of acceptance of papers: Jan 10, 2006 * Final manuscript due: March 25, 2006 * Tentative publication date: June 2006.

*Co-Guest Editors:* Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi LIFL - INRIA Futurs - University of Lille Email: talbi@lifl.fr mailto:talbi@lifl.fr _http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi_

* * Prof. Albert Zomaya University of Sydney - Australia

Email: _zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au_ http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~zomaya http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ezomaya * * -- Prof. El-Ghazali TALBI LIFL Laboratory - CNRS - INRIA e-mail : talbi@lifl.fr URL : www.lifl.fr/~talbi

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******************************************************* Call-For-Papers

Special Issue of the

Journal of Parallel Distributed Computing (JPDC)

"Grids in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology"

********************************************************

Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. Research and development in bioinformatics and computational biology create and develop advanced information and computational techniques to manage and extract useful information from the DNA/RNA/protein sequence being generated by high throughput technologies (e.g. DNA microarrays, DNA sequencers). It is the comprehensive application of mathematics (e.g., probability and graph theory), statistics, science (e.g., biochemistry), and computer science (e.g., computer algorithms and machine learning) to the understanding of living systems. Those techniques are extremely computationally or data intensive, providing motivation for using Grids.

Grids are an enabling technology that permit the transparent coupling of geographically-dispersed resources (machines, networks, data storage, visualization devices, and scientific instruments) for large-scale distributed applications. Grids provide several important benefits for users and applications to share: computing and data storage, knowledge, instruments, etc).

This special issue of the Journal Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) is seeking original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances in using Grids in bioinformatics and computational biology. *Topics of Interest Include but Are Not Limited To:*

GRIDs in:

* Bio-ontology and data mining, Data visualization * DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping, Molecular evolution and phylogeny * Gene expression and micro-arrays, Gene identification and annotation * Molecular modeling and simulation, Molecular sequence analysis * Protein structure prediction * Sequence assembly, Sequence search and alignment * Bio data intensive applications, Grid infrastructures, middleware and tools for bio data

*Submission Guidelines: *The manuscripts must be submitted to http://www.ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. A paper must not exceed 25 pages.**

*Important Dates:*

* Full papers submission: Nov 3, 2005 * Notification of acceptance of papers: Feb 10, 2006 * Final manuscript due: March 25, 2006 * Tentative publication date: June 2006.

*Co-Guest Editors:*

Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi

LIFL - INRIA Futurs - University of Lille

Email: talbi@lifl.fr mailto:talbi@lifl.fr _http://www.lifl.fr/~talbi_

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Prof. Albert Zomaya

University of Sydney - Australia

Email: _zomaya@it.usyd.edu.au_

http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/~zomaya http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ezomaya

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