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                        CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
                             HiCOMB 2006
 5th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
                        http://www.hicomb.org/
 
                     held in conjunction with the
     International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
                        http://www.ipdps.org/

                            April 25, 2006
                         Rhodes Island, Greece
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                         HiCOMB 2006 Schedule
 (Please see www.hicomb.org for any updated scheduling information.)
            
 8:45- 9:00: WELCOME

	Chau-Wen Tseng, Program Chair
	David A. Bader and Srinivas Aluru, Workshop Co-Chairs

 9:00-10:00: SESSION 1: Hardware Acceleration

	Bio-Sequence Database Scanning on a GPU 	
	W. Liu, B. Schmidt, G. Voss, A. Schroder, and W. Muller-Wittig

	Some Initial Results on Hardware BLAST Acceleration with a 
		Reconfigurable Architecture 	
	E. Sotiriades, C. Kozanitis, and A. Dollas 

10:00-10:30: BREAK
 
10:30-12:00: SESSION 2: Protein Structure
                                                                                
	Parallel Implementation of the Replica Exchange Molecular 
		Dynamics Algorithm on Blue Gene/L 	
	M. Eleftheriou, A. Rayshubski, J.W. Pitera, B. Fitch, R. Zhou 
		and R.S. Germain

 	Application Re-Structuring and Data Management on a GRID 
		Environment: a Case Study for Bioinformatics 	
	G. Ciriello, M. Comin, and C. Guerra

	A Method to Improve Structural Modeling Based on Conserved 
		Domain Clusters 
        Fa Zhang, Lin Xu, and Bo Yuan

12:00- 1:30: LUNCH (on your own)

 1:30- 3:00: SESSION 3: Phylogenetics

	Phylospaces: Reconstructing Evolutionary Trees in Tuple Space 	
	Marc L. Smith and Tiffani L. Williams

	Parallel Implementation of a Quartet-Based Algorithm for 
		Phylogenetic Analysis 	
	B.B. Zhou, D. Chu, M. Tarawneh, P. Wang, C. Wang, A.Y. Zomaya 
		and R.P. Brent

	Phylogenetic Models of Rate Heterogeneity: A High Performance 
		Computing Perspective 	 
	A. Stamatakis

 3:00- 3:30: BREAK

 3:30- 5:00: SESSION 4: Multiple Sequence Alignment & Other Algorithms

	Parallel Multiple Sequence Alignment with Local Phylogeny 
		Search by Simulated Annealing 	
	J. Zola, D. Trystram, A. Tchernykh, and C. Brizuela

	MT-ClustalW: Multithreading Multiple Sequence Alignment 	
	K. Chaichoompu, S. Kittitornkun, and S. Tongsima

	An Experimental Study of Optimizing Bioinformatics Applications 
        G. Tan, L. Xu, Z. Dai, S. Feng, and N. Sun

 5:00:  END OF WORKSHOP
 

Workshop Co-Chairs:
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  David A. Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology)
  Srinivas Aluru (Iowa State University)

Program Chair:
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  Chau-Wen Tseng (University of Maryland)
 
Program Committee:
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  Michael Cummings (University of Maryland)
  Arthur Delcher (University of Maryland)
  Nathan Edwards (University of Maryland)
  Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
  Guang Gao (University of Delaware)
  Attila Gursoy (Koc University)
  Sorin Istrail (Brown University)
  Luay Nakhleh (Rice University) 
  Jan Prins (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
  Joel Saltz (Ohio State University)
  Alejandro A. Schaffer (National Institutes of Health)
  Alexandros Stamatakis (Institute of Computer Science, FORTH)
  Michela Taufer (University of Texas at El Paso)
  Thomas Wu (Genentech)
  Albert Y. Zomaya (University of Western Australia)