4th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science http://staff.icar.cnr.it/cannataro/iccs2011/ CALL FOR PAPERS Bioinformatics is providing the foundation for fast and reliable data analysis. Genomics, interactomics, proteomics, epidemiological, clinical and text mining applications have made essential progress through using bioinformatics tools. Standard tools are usually offered through the Web. This is no longer sufficient with more complex analysis and simulation tasks from emerging research fields like systems biology, image analysis, biomedical applications or data management. In recent years Grid and Web services based approaches have been developed to face the new challenges. Moreover, emerging life sciences applications need to use in a coordinated way both bioinformatics tools, biological data banks, and patient?s clinical data, that requires seamless integration, privacy preservation and controlled sharing. This 4th Workshop on Biomedical and Bioinformatics Challenges to Computer Science will bring together scientists from computer and life sciences to discuss future directions of bioinformatics algorithms, applications, and data management. Questions to be looked at are whether wrapping existing algorithms as Grid or Web service will be sufficient to cope with the more complex applications and the increasing volume of data to be processed or which applications would profit from being redeveloped as native parallel or distributed application. Furthermore, the use of novel parallel architectures and dedicated hardware to implement bioinformatics and biomedical algorithms will be discussed. TOPICS OF INTEREST The workshop is seeking original research papers presenting innovative solutions from parallel, distributed and Grid computing applied to bioinformatics algorithms and life sciences applications. Specifically we are interested in the following topics: - sequence and structure bioinformatics - genomics, proteomics, interactomics - systems biology - biomedical image analysis - biomedical simulation - data management - data integration - data visualization - workflow modelling - distributed biomedical applications - high performance computing - dedicated hardware and architectures - parallelisation techniques - service orientation - volunteer computing - peer-to-peer computing PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to the rules of Procedia Computer Science. Please use this file for a Latex template plus instructions and click here for an MS word template file. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system. Please, note that papers must not exceed ten pages in length, when typeset using the Procedia format. Dates of deadlines for draft paper submission (full paper), notification of acceptance, deadline for camera-ready paper submission and registration may be found in the Important Dates section of the ICCS Web site. Papers must be based on unpublished, mature and original work and must be submitted to ICCS only. After the conference, selected papers may be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science ICCS is an ERA 2010 A-ranked conference series. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE After the workshop, selected papers may be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science. Selected papers (extended and revised version) accepted on the 1st edition of the workshop have been published on a special section of Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier. IMPORTANT DATES Full papers submission: January 31, 2011 (EXTENDED) Notification of acceptance: February 20, 2011 Camera ready papers: March 7, 2011 Early registration opens: February 15, 2011 Early registration closes: March 31, 2011 Conference sessions: June 1-3, 2011 WORKSHOP CO-ORGANIZERS Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Joakim Sundnes, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway Rodrigo Weber dos Santos, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil PROGRAM COMMITTEE (TO BE CONFIRMED) 1. Dave Angulo, DePaul University, Chicago, USA 2. Rui Brito, University of Coimbra, Portugal 3. Tim Clark, Harvard Medical School, USA 4. Giuseppe Di Fatta, University of Reading, UK 5. Werner Dubitzky, University of Ulster, UK 6. Christine Froidevaux, LRI-Bioinformatics Group - University Paris XI, Orsay, France 7. Alan Garny, University of Oxford, Department of Physiology, Anatomy & Genetics 8. Concettina Guerra, University of Padova, Italy 9. Pietro Hiram Guzzi, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 10. Ulrich Hansmann, Research Centre Juelich, Germany 11. Vicente Hern†ndez, Univ. PolitÇcnica de Valencia, Spain 12. Pilar Herrero, Universidad PolitÇcnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 13. Ela Hunt, SystemsX.ch, ETHZ, Switzerland 14. Glenn Terje Lines, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway 15. Marcelo Lobosco, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 16. Uko Maran, University of Tartu, Estonia 17. Wagner Meira Jr., Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil 18. Maria Mirto, University of Salento, Italy 19. Hartmut Mix, University of Technology Dresden, Germany 20. Salvatore Orlando, University of Venezia, Italy 21. Mar°a S. PÇrez, Universidad PolitÇcnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain 22. Gernot Plank, University of Graz, Austria 23. Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK 24. Blanca Rodriguez, University of Oxford, UK 25. Luis Paulo da Silva Barra, Federal University of Juiz de Fora, Brazil 26. Fabrizio Silvestri, ISTI-CNR, Italy 27. Raymond Spiteri, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 28. Roberto Tagliaferri, University of Salerno, Italy 29. El-Ghazali Talbi, UniversitÇ des Sciences et Technologies de Lille, France 30. Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy 31. Pierangelo Veltri, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy 32. Edward J. Vigmond, University of Calgary, Canada 33. Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia