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The 1st IEEE International Workshop on in
conjunction with ICA3PP'11, October 24-26, 2011, |
Call for
Papers
Description:
Bioinformatics is a research field that proposes
algorithms and statistical techniques to allow efficient interpretation,
classification and understanding of biological datasets. These applications are
in the general benefit of mankind. The datasets typically consist of huge
numbers of DNA, RNA, or protein sequences. Sequence alignment is used to
assemble the datasets for analysis. Comparisons of homologous sequences, gene
finding, and prediction of gene expression are the most common techniques used
on assembled datasets; however, analysis of such datasets have many
applications throughout all fields of biology. The down-side of
bioinformatics-related applications is that they need a humongous computational
effort to be executed. Therefore, a lot of research effort is being channeled towards the
development of special-purpose hardware accelerators and dedicated parallel
processors that allow for efficient execution of this kind of applications.
This special session is dedicated to putting together a
collection of scientific and technical contributions to the field of Efficient Architectures
for Bioinformatic and DNA-related Applications, including parallel architectures of software and hardware
accelerators, special-purpose processors, embedded systems, System-On-Chip and
Network-On-Chip based implementations dedicated to Bioinformatics. Therefore, we
seek original manuscripts for a Special session on Architectures for Bioinformatics
Applications and related topics, scheduled to appear in the proceedings of
ICA3PP 2011, to be published by LNCS, Springer-Verlag.
Authors of the best papers of the workshop will be asked
to extend their work to be considered for publication in a special issue that
will be published in Integration, The VLSI Journal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/vlsi/), Elsevier.
Submission:
Papers must be submitted via email to nadia@eng.uerj.br, using HardBio2011 submission as subject. All papers will
be rigorously reviewed by at least three experts based on the quality:
originality, organization and clarity.
Important Dates
Workshop Chairs
Dr. Nadia Nedjah (nadia@eng.uerj.br)
Department of Electronics Engineering and
Telecommunications
State
Home Page: http://www.eng.uerj.br/~nadia/english.html
Dr. Luiza de Macedo
Mourelle (ldmm@eng.uerj.br)
Department of Systems Engineering and
Computation
State
Home Page: http://www.eng.uerj.br/~ldmm
Technical Program Committee