- Welcome to the 2024 HiCOMB webpage!
- Priyanka Ghosh will serve as the program chair for HiCOMB 2024. Please look for updates below for CFP and PC and other related information about the workshop's technical program.
- Call for papers posted below.
- Online HiCOMB Proceedings (covering all past editions)
Confirmed Keynote and Invited Speakers
TBA
The size and complexity of genomic and biomedical big data continues to grow at a exponential pace, and the analysis of these complex, noisy, data sets demands efficient algorithms and high performance computing architectures. Hence, high-performance computing (HPC) has become an integral part of research and development in bioinformatics, computational biology, and medical and health informatics. The goal of the HiCOMB workshop is to showcase novel HPC research and technologies to solve data- and compute-intensive problems arising from all areas of computational life sciences. The workshop will feature a keynote talk from a leading scientist, peer-reviewed paper presentations as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field.
For peer-reviewed papers, we invite authors to submit original and previously unpublished work that are at the intersection of the "pillars" of modern day computational life sciences and HPC. More specifically, we encourage submissions from all areas of biology that can benefit from HPC, and from all areas of HPC that need new development to address the class of computational problems that originate from biology.
Areas of interest within computational life sciences include (but not limited to):
- Biological sequence analysis (genome assembly, long/short read data structures, read mapping, clustering, variant analysis, single cell, error correction, genome annotation)
- Computational structural biology (protein structure, RNA structure)
- Functional genomics (transcriptomics, RNAseq/microarrays, single cell analysis, proteomics, phospho-proteomics)
- Systems biology and networks (biological network analysis, gene regulatory networks, metabolomics, molecular pathways)
- Tools for integrated multi-omics and biological databases (network construction, modeling, link inference)
- Computational modeling and simulation of biological systems (molecular dynamics, protein structure/docking, dynamic models)
- Phylogeny (phylogenetic tree reconstruction, molecular evolution)
- Microbes and microbiomes (taxonomic binning, metagenomics, classification, clustering, annotation)
- Biomedical health analytics and biomedical imaging (electronic health records, precision medicine, image analysis)
- Biomedical literature mining (text mining, ontology, natural language processing)
- Computational epidemiology (infectious diseases, diffusion mechanisms)
- Phenomics and precision agriculture (IoT technologies, feature extraction)
- Visualization of large-scale biomedical data and patient trajectories
Areas of interest within HPC include (but are not limited to):
- Parallel and distributed algorithms (scalable machine learning, parallel graph/sequence analytics, combinatorial pattern matching, optimization, parallel data structures, compression)
- Biological data management, metadata standards such as compliance to FAIR principles, AI-ready data processing
- Data-intensive computing techniques (communication-avoiding/synchronization-reducing techniques, locality-preserving techniques, big data streaming techniques)
- Parallel architectures (multicore, manycore, CPU/GPU, FPGA, system-on-chip, hardware accelerators, energy-aware architectures, hardware/software co-design)
- Memory and storage technologies (processing-in-memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, 3D RAM, parallel/distributed I/O)
- Parallel programming models (libraries, domain specific languages, compiler/runtime systems)
- Scalable AI/ML frameworks for biological systems, modeling, and analysis
- Scientific workflows (data management, data wrangling, automated workflows, productivity)
- Scientific computing (numerical analysis, optimization)
- Empirical evaluations (performance modeling, case-studies)
Submission guidelines
To submit a paper, please upload a PDF file through the IPDPS 2024 Linklings
submission link and select HiCOMB Workshop:
https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HiCOMBWorkshopFullSubmission&site=ipdps2024
IPDPS workshops can have submission in three categories: regular papers (up to 10 pages), short papers (up to 4 pages), and extended abstracts (1 page). Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using a 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references (see IPDPS Call for Papers for more details). All papers will be reviewed by three or more referees. This year, the authors of the accepted papers will be given a choice on whether to have the paper appear in the IPDPSW Proceedings (which will be digitally indexed and archived as part of the IEEE Xplore Digital Library). If the authors choose not to make it part of the proceedings, then the paper will not be considered archival. In either case, all accepted papers will be posted online on the workshop website, and all accepted papers (archived or not) will need to have an oral presentation at the workshop by one of the authors of the paper.
Important Dates
Workshop
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Workshop: | May 27, 2024 (Monday) |
Program Chair
- Priyanka Ghosh , National Institutes of Health, USA <email>
Program Committee
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Simon Roux (Joint Genome Institute)
Giulia Guidi (Cornell University)
Jason Gans (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Muaaz Gul Awan (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of North Texas)
Benjamin Langmead (Johns Hopkins University)
Ariful Azad (Indiana University)
Jaroslaw Zola (State Univeristy of New York at Buffalo)
Sarah Bruningk (ETH Zurich)
Serghei Mangul (University of Southern California)
Ryan Layer (University of Colorado Boulder)
Vasimuddin Md (Intel Corp.)
Ercument Cicek (Bilkent University)
Daniel de Oliveira (Fluminense Federal University)
Eneida Hatcher (National Center for Biotechnology Information)
Tony C. Pan (Georgia Institute of Technology)
General Chairs
- Alba Cristina M. A. de
Melo, Department of Computer Science, University of
Brasilia <email>
- Ananth Kalyanaraman, School of EECS, Washington State University <email>
Steering Committee Members
- Srinivas Aluru, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- David A. Bader, Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology