call for papers special issue of the journal of parallel distributed computing (jpdc): grids in...

J. Parallel Distrib. Comput. 65 (2005) 983www.elsevier.com/locate/jpdc

Call for papers

Special Issue:Grids in bioinformatics and computational biology

Bioinformatics is fast emerging as an important disciplinefor academic research and industrial application. Researchand development in bioinformatics and computational biol-ogy create and develop advanced information and computa-tional techniques to manage and extract useful informationfrom the DNA/RNA/protein sequence being generated byhigh-throughput technologies (e.g., DNA microarrays, DNAsequencers). It is the comprehensive application of math-ematics (e.g., probability and graph theory), statistics, sci-ence (e.g., biochemistry), and computer science (e.g., com-puter algorithms and machine learning) to the understandingof living systems. Those techniques are extremely compu-tationally or data intensive, providing motivation for usingGrids.

Grids are an enabling technology that permit the transparentcoupling of geographically dispersed resources (machines,networks, data storage, visualization devices, and scientificinstruments) for large-scale distributed applications. Gridsprovide several important benefits for users and applicationsto share: computing and data storage, knowledge, instru-ments, etc.

This special issue of the Journal Parallel and DistributedComputing (JPDC) is seeking original unpublished researcharticles that describe recent advances in using Grids in bioin-formatics and computational biology.

Topics of interest include but are not limited to

GRIDS in

• Bio-ontology and data mining, data visualization.• DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping, molecular evo-lution and phytogeny.

doi:10.1016/j.jpdc.2005.03.001

• Gene expression andmicro-arrays, gene identification andannotation.

• Molecular modeling and simulation, molecular sequenceanalysis.

• Protein structure prediction.• Sequence assembly, sequence search and alignment.• Bio data intensive applications, grid infrastructures, mid-dleware and tools for bio data.

Submission guidelines

The manuscripts must be submitted tohttp://www.ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. A paper must not exceed 25 pages.

Important dates

• Full papers submission: September 10, 2005• Notification of acceptance of papers: January 10, 2006• Final manuscript due: March 25, 2006• Tentative publication date: June 2006.

Co-Guest Editors

Prof. El-Ghazali Talbi,LIFL INRIA Futurs University of Lille 1, FranceE-mail address:talbi@lifl.frURL: http://www.lifl.fr/∼ talbi

Prof. Albert ZomayaUniversity of Sydney, AustraliaE-mail address:zomaya@it.usyd.edu.auURL: http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/∼ zomaya