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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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High Performance Computing for Life Sciences:
Algorithms, Methodologies and Tools (HPC4LifeS 2021)
www.na.icar.cnr.it/HPC4LifeS2021

ORGANIZERS
Laura Antonelli, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Pietro Hiram Guzzi, Università della Magna Graecia, Italy

in conjunction with  the
27TH INTERNATIONAL EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON
PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (EURO-PAR 2021)
https://2021.euro-par.org/

(***NEWS***)Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, HPC4LifeS 2021 will be held as a virtual event. The accepted papers need to be presented by one author in order to be included in the proceedings. Only a single minimal registration fee will be requested for each paper in order to cover the organization and proceedings publication expenses. Two formats of paper presentations will be possible:

*** Streaming presentations
*** Slides and pre-recorded video presentations
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IMPORTANT DATES
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Workshop papers due May 7, 2021
Author Notification June 30, 2021
Informal camera-ready collected from EasyChair due July 14, 2021
Workshop date will be August 30 or 31, 2021
Camera ready versione of paper due September 10, 2021

Submissions should be in PDF format between 10-12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, including text, figures, and references:

https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-guidelines

Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer in the LNCS series.

SPECIAL ISSUE
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A number of high quality selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited as extended papers in a Special Issue.

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Advances 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 world-real 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, the evolution of diseases, sustainable energy systems, etc.);
* the processing and the 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, to compare results, to reproduce the experiments, etc.).

The HPC4LifeS 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


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