TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Large scale biological and biomedical databases Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine Parallel bioinformatics algorithms Parallel visualization and exploration of biomedical data Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images Computing environments for large scale collaboration Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine Emerging architectures and programming models (e.g. Cell, GPUs) for bioinformatics and biomedicine Parallel processing of bio-signals Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes