Parallel and Distributed Computing for Life Sciences: Algorithms, Methodologies, and Tools
PDCLifeS workshop of EURO-PAR 2020

Call for Papers

Advancements in Life Sciences are largely driven by the development of powerful technologies and computational tools. Applications range from drug discovery and personalized medical therapies to improved agricultural and green energy production. However, the solution of real-world problems requires a multidisciplinary approach and poses new challenges to the field of High-Performance Computing (HPC) at different levels:

• the modeling and simulation of complex phenomena (human organ functions, evolution of diseases, sustainable energy systems, etc.);
• the processing and analysis of massive amounts of data produced by modern technologies (omics and genome sequencing, functional and anatomical imaging, High-Content Screening, etc.);
• the extracting, merging and understanding of information from different sources (merging different types of images, bridging imaging and omics data, etc.);
• the storage, security, and availability of datasets (in order to gather information, compare results, reproduce the experiments, etc.).

The PDCLifeS Workshop is oriented to explore the key role of HPC algorithms, methodologies and tools for solving problems related to different branches of Life Sciences (Biology, Biomedicine, Bioengineering, Ecology, etc.).

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

• * Parallel Computing for Biological Systems
• * Parallel Simulations
• * Parallel and Distributed Genetic Algorithms
• * Parallel Data Mining Approaches to Life Sciences
• * Parallel and Distributed Computing in genomic research
• * Parallel and Distributed architecture for Bioengineering
• * Cloud Computing for Bioengineering
• * Machine Learning techniques for predictive algorithms
• * Metabolic and regulatory networks
• * Linking variety of databases

The workshops will be online on August 24, 2020, before the start of the main conference.

The first edition of the PDCLifeS workshop was held in conjunction with Euro-Par2018 in Turin, Italy, and the second edition was held in Gottinghen, Germany.