HiCOMB 2022
21st IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
In conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'22)
Virtual Workshop

May 30, 2022
10:00 - 13:50 EDT

All HiCOMB Attendees:  To attend HiCOMB, please register at the IPDPS registration page. HiCOMB program will be delivered through the IPDPS virtual platform.  Details will be sent to all registered attendees.

Please see www.hicomb.org for most recent version of the program and the abstracts of keynote and invited speakers.  All times below are in Eastern Daylight Time.



Plenary Session   (10:00 - 10:55)
10:00-10:05 Opening Remarks
Can Alkan, Program Chair
10:05-10:55 Keynote address by Christina Boucher, University of Florida
Building scalable indexes that canbe efficiently queried

Q&A
10:55-11:00 Break

Contributed  Session A (11:00 - 12:35)
11:00-11:45 Optimizing the Accuracy of Randomized Embedding for Sequence Alignment.
Yiqing Yan, Nimisha Chaturvedi, Raja Appuswamy

On Using Consistency Consistently in Multiple Sequence Alignments.
Mario Joăo Junior, Alexandre Sena, Vinod Rebello

Algorithmic Improvement and GPU Acceleration of the GenASM Algorithm.
Joel Lindegger, Damla Senol Cali, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gómez-Luna, Onur Mutlu 

High-throughput Pairwise Alignment with the Wavefront Algorithm using Processing-in-Memory.
Safaa Diab, Amir Nassereldine, Mohammed Alser, Juan Gómez Luna, Onur Mutlu, Izzat El Hajj

Sequre: A High-Performance Framework for Rapid Development of Secure Bioinformatics Pipelines.
Haris Smajlović, Ariya Shajii, Bonnie Berger, Hyunghoon Cho, Ibrahim Numanagić

Scalable and Extensible Robinson-Foulds for Comparative Phylogenetics.
Alvin Chon, Paweł Górecki, Oliver Eulenstein, Xiaoqiu Huang, Ali Jannesari
11:45-12:00 Q & A and discussion
12:00-12:35 Invited Talk by Yatish Turakhia, University of California, San Diego
Pandemic-scale Phylogenetics

Q&A
12:35-12:40 Break

Contributed  Session B (12:40 - 13:50)
12:40-13:50 Accelerating Deep Learning based Identification of Chromatin Accessibility from noisy ATAC-seq Data.
Narendra Chaudhary, Sanchit Misra, Dhiraj Kalamkar, Alexander Heinecke, Evangelos Georganas, Barukh Ziv, Menachem Adelman, Bharat Kaul

Graph Convolutional Neural Networks for Alzheimer's Classification with Transfer Learning and HPC Methods.
Anoop Kumar, Vibha Balaji, Chandrashekar MA, Ambedkar Dukkipati, Sathish Vadhiyar

Accelerated LD-based selective sweep detection using GPUs and FPGAs.
Reinout Corts, Niek Sterenborg, Nikolaos Alachiotis

Proteome-scale Deployment of Protein Structure Prediction Workflows on the Summit Supercomputer.
Mu Gao, Mark Coletti, Russell Davidson, Ryan Prout, Subil Abraham, Benjamin Hernandez, Ada Sedova

Reproducibility Assessment of Bioinformatics Tools.
Pelin Icer Baykal, Niko Beerenwinkel, Serghei Mangul

TAMPA: interpretable analysis and visualization of metagenomics-based taxon abundance profiles.
Varuni Sarwal, Serghei Mangul, David Koslicki
 
13:50 Adjourn