MODERN COMPUTER TOOLS FOR THE BIOSCIENCES

The Workshop on “ Modern computer tools for the biosciences ” is a
one-day event focussing on topics including the added-value of the Grid
for Bioinformaticians, Biologists and Medical scientists, and the
readiness of the Grid for these end-users The grid concept has already
produced a variety of middlewares, components and platforms that are
available around the World. But are facilites ready to be exploited by
the true end-user? There are several challenging points that are still
under development in the biosciences domain. The workshop will focus on
some of these critical areas, notably, sharing biological data within
distributed filesystems and database management systems, providing
developers with programmatic usage of independant remote components such
as web services or standard grid APIs, providing end-users with uniform
grid access including ergonomic and efficient portals, and creating
workflow on distributed resources, ...
TOPICS
Topics of special interest, but not limited to, are the following.
High-throughput and high-performance Bioinformatics
1. •Genomics
2. •Proteomics
3. •Molecular structure prediction, modelling and dynamic
4. •System biology
Biological data management
1. •Data integration, semantic and ontologies
2. •Grid distributed filesystems
3. •Distributed database management systems
Bioinformatics tools integration
1. •Programmatic usage of independant remote components: Web services, grid APIs
2. •Web Portals and remote interface
3. •Workflow enactor and interface
4. •Parallel and distributed applications
KEYDATES
1. •Submission Deadline: 30th November.
2. •Notification Deadline: 15th January 2008
3. •Camera Ready deadline: 30th January, 2008
Workshop home page: http://gbio-pbil.ibcp.fr/modernbio/