HiCOMB 2018
17th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
In conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 21, 2018

Please see www.hicomb.org for most recent version of the program and the abstracts of keynote and invited speakers.

	Session I
8:40-8:45am	Introductory Remarks (Paul Medvedev)
8:45-9:45am	Keynote: James Taylor Computing Chromosome Conformation
9:45-10:15	Paper: Golnar Sheikhshab GraphNER: Using Corpus Level Similarities and Graph Propagationfor Named Entity Recognition
10:15-10:45	Coffee break
	Session II
10:45-11:30	Invited: Benjamin Langmead Practical lessons from scaling read aligners to hundreds of threads
11:30-12:00	Paper: William Arndt Modifying HMMER3 to Run Efficiently on the Cori Supercomputer using OpenMP Tasking
12:00-1:30	Lunch
	Session III
1:30-2:30	Keynote: Onur Mutlu Accelerating Genome Analysis: A Primer on an Ongoing Journey
2:30-3:15	Invited: Benedict Paten Mapping to a population
3:15-3:45	Coffee Break
	Session IV
3:45-4:30	Invited: Inanc Birol Multi-index Bloom filters and spaced seeds for sequence mapping
4:30-5:00	Paper: Daniel Ayres Rerooting Trees Increases Opportunities for Concurrent Computation and Results in Markedly Improved Performance for Phylogenetic
5:00-5:30	Paper: Raja Appuswamy Sequence Alignment Through the Looking Glass