Subject: Call for Participation for HiCOMB 2004 Workshop

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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
                             HiCOMB 2004
3nd IEEE International Workshop On High Performance Computational Biology
                            www.hicomb.org
 
                     held in conjunction with the
     International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
                            www.ipdps.org

                            April 26, 2004
                     Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
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  Three-Dimensional Reconstruction of Viruses: Challenges and Strategies

  Timothy S. Baker
  Purdue University

  Viruses are cellular parasites.  A deeper understanding of many
  aspects of viral life cycles has emerged from coordinated molecular
  and structural studies carried out with a wide range of viral
  pathogens.  Structural studies of viruses by means of transmission
  electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM), 3D image reconstruction, and
  pseudo-atomic modeling methods have grown explosively in the last
  decade.  These methods have been successfully employed in the
  investigation of a wide range of icosahedral viruses, ranging in size
  from as small as 30nm to larger than 200nm.  The talk will review the
  current technologies involved in obtaining 3D structural information
  on viruses and briefly highlight some recent results at better than 10
  Angstrom resolution on both enveloped and non-enveloped icosahedral
  viruses.  Numerous technological obstacles stand in the path of
  obtaining near atomic resolution (0.4 nm or better) structural data on
  symmetric as well as non-symmetric viruses.  Particular emphasis will
  be devoted to describing the development of new computational tools
  designed to provide high throughput data analysis at high resolution.

  Please see www.hicomb.org for speaker's biography and any updated
  scheduling information.


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                         HiCOMB 2004 Schedule
                            April 26, 2004
                     Eldorado Hotel, Santa Fe, NM
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 8:45am --  9:00am  Introduction and Welcome
                    Dan C. Marinescu, Program Chair
                    David A. Bader and Srinivas Aluru, Workshop Co-Chairs
                    
 9:00am -- 10:00am  KEYNOTE TALK
 
                    Three-dimensional reconstruction of viruses: challenges and strategies
                    Timothy S. Baker, Purdue University

10:00am -- 10:30am  BREAK

10:30am -- 12:00pm  SESSION 1

                    Study of a Highly Accurate and Fast-Protein Ligand
                      Docking Algorithm Based Upon Molecular Dynamics
                    M. Taufer, M. Crowley, D. Price, A.A. Chien, and C. L. Brooks III 

                    Parallel Protein Folding with STAPL
                    S. Thomas and N. Amato

                    A Hypergraph Model for the Yeast Protein Complex Network
                    E. Ramadan, A. Tarafdar, and A. Pothen

12:00pm --  1:00pm  LUNCH

 1:00pm --  2:30pm  SESSION 2

                    Dynamic Programming for LR-PCR Segmentation of Bacterium Genomes
                    R. Andonov, D. Lavenier, N. Yanev, and P. Veber

                    Parallel RNA Sequence-Structure Alignment
                    T. Liu and B. Schmidt
 
                    Constrained De Novo Peptide Identification via Multiobjective Optimization
                    J.M. Mallard, A. Heredia-Langner, D.J. Baxter, K.H. Jarman, and W. R. Cannon
 
 2:30pm --  2:45pm  BREAK
 
 2:45pm --  4:15pm  SESSION 3

                    Identification of Mycobacteriun Species Using Curated Custom Databases
                    D. Kuyper, H. Ali, A.M. Mohamed, and S.H. Hinrichs

                    High Performance Computational Tools for Motif Discovery
                    N.E. Baldwin, R.L. Collins, M. A. Langston, M.R. Leuze, C.T. Symons, and B. H. Voy

                    High Performance Biosequence Database Scanning on Reconfigurable Platforms
                    T. Oliver and B. Schmidt
  
 4:15pm --  4:30pm  BREAK
 
 4:30pm --  6:00pm  SESSION 4
 
                    New Fast and Acurate Heuristics for Inference of Large Phylogenic Trees
                    A.P. Stamatakis, T. Ludwig, and H. Meier
                    
                    Large-Scale Simulation of Eukaryotic Cell Signaling Processes
                    J.H. Miller and F. Zheng

                    Particle Swarm Optimization and Neural Network Application for QSAR
                    Z. Wang, G.L. Durst, R.C. Eberhart, D.B. Boyd, and Z. Ben Miled

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Workshop Co-Chairs:
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  Prof. Srinivas Aluru            Prof. David A. Bader       
  Iowa State University           University of New Mexico   

Program Chair:
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 Dan C. Marinescu, University of Central Florida
 
Program Committee:
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 Prof. Alberto Apostolico, Purdue University
 Prof. Concettina Guerra, Universita'di Padova
 Prof. Wojciech Szpankowski, Purdue University
 
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