HiCOMB 2023
22nd IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
In conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'23)
St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

May 15, 2023
1:00 - 5:30 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 (1:00 - 3:00)
1:00-1:05 Opening Remarks
Fahad Saeed, Program  Co-chair
1:05-2:05 Keynote address by Valerie Scheider, National Library of Medicine, NIH
All the Data! Opportunities and Challenges in Data Exploration and Analyses from Public Sequence Archives

Q&A
2:05-3:00

Invited Talk by Daniel Jacobson, Oak Ridge National Lab
Crises Abound: Health, Climate, Energy, Food, Pandemics...
How Supercomputing, AI, and Large-Scale Systems Biology Can Help Address the Major Challenges We Are Facing.

Q&A

3:00-3:30 Coffee Break
  Regular paper presentations (3:30 – 5:30)
3:30-4:00 Parallel Inference of Phylogenetic Stands with Gentrius
Anastasis Togkousidis, Olga Chernomor, Alexandros Stamatakis
4:00-4:30 Designing Efficient SIMD Kernels for High Performance Sequence Alignment
Doru Thom Popovici, Muaaz Gul Awan, Giulia Guidi, Rob Egan, Steven Hofmeyr, Leonid Oliker, Katherine Yelick
4:30-5:00 Using Hyperdimensional Computing to Extract Features for the Detection of Type 2 Diabetes
Neftali Watkinson, Divya Devineni, Victor Joe, Tony Givargis, Alexandru Nicolau, Alexander Veidenbaum
5:00-5:30 An Efficient Parallel Sketch-based Algorithm for Mapping Long Reads to Contigs
Tazin Rahman, Oieswarya Bhowmik, Ananth Kalyanaraman
5:30-5:35

Closing Remarks
Serdar Bozdag, Program Co-chair