8:45-9:00am

Opening Remarks

9:00-10:00am

Keynote: The Popular MG-RAST Bioinformatics System and Its Underlying Platform

Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory

10:00-10:30am

Break

10:30-11:15am

A Parallel Graph Framework for Metagenomics and Microbial Genomics

Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University

11:15-12:00pm

Understanding Biology in Times of High Throughput and Low Output

Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University

12:00-1:30pm

Lunch (on your own)

1:30-2:15pm

Kmerind: A Flexible Parallel Library for K-mer Indexing of Biological Sequences on Distributed Memory Systems

Tony Pan, Georgia Institute of Technology

3:00-3:30pm

Parallel Data Structures for Indexing Genomic Sequences

Patrick Flick, Georgia Institute of Technology

4:15-5:00pm

Building Blocks for Bioinformatics

Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech