HiCOMB 2019
18th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
In conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
May 20, 2019

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


Session I   (10am - 12pm)
10:00-10:15am Opening Remarks
Kamesh Madduri, Program Chair
10:15-11:00am Invited talk: Ariful Azad, Indiana University Bloomington
Title:  HipMCL A High-Performance Parallel Algorithm for Clustering Large-scale Networks
11:00-11:30am Paper: Accelerating Clustering using Approximate Spanning Tree and Prime Number based Filter
Dhananjai Rao, Sutharzan Sreeskandarajan, Chun Liang
11:30-12:00pm Paper: Data Distribution for Phylogenetic Inference with Site Repeats via Judicious Hypergraph Partitioning
Ivo Baar, Lukas Hübner, Peter Oettig, Adrian Zapletal, Sebastian Schlag, Alexandros Stamatakis, Benoit Morel
12:00-1:30pm Lunch

Session II   (1:30pm - 3:30pm)
1:30-2:30pm Keynote: Ajay Royyuru, IBM Research
Title:  Data + AI = Insights in Biology & Medicine
2:30-3:15pm Invited talk: Rayan Chikhi, Institut Pasteur
Title:  High-performance and Single-node Genome Assembly using de Bruijn Graphs
3:15-3:30pm Short Paper: ArrOW: Experiencing a Parallel Cloud-based de Novo Assembler Workflow
Kary Ocaña, Thaylon Guedes, Daniel de Oliveira
3:30-4:00pm Coffee Break

Session III  (4:00pm - 5:30pm)
4:00-4:30pm Paper: LBE: A Computational Load Balancing Algorithm for Speeding up Parallel Peptide Search in Mass-Spectrometry based Proteomics
Muhammad Haseeb, Fatima Afzali, Fahad Saeed
4:30-5:00pm Paper: Portable GPU Framework for SNP Comparisons
Eilliott Binder, Tze Meng Low, Doru Thom Popovici
5:00-5:30pm Paper: Parallel Decompression of gzip-compressed Files and Random Access to DNA sequences
Maël Kerbiriou, Rayan Chikhi