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CALL FOR PAPERS
Fourth International Conference on Life Science Grids (LSGrid2007)
(http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/lsgrid2007/
<http://www.nesc.ac.uk/events/lsgrid2007/> )
6-7th September 2007,
National e-Science Centre,
University of Glasgow, Scotland
Area and Scope
The post-genome era holds much promise. In-silico scientific research
can allow for identification of new drugs, personalized e-Health,
multi-scale models of complete organisms through to complete population
studies. Essential to the realization of this vision is the
infrastructure needed to support inter-disciplinary research, in
particular in overcoming the data deluge associated with the life
sciences. These data sets are growing exponentially, often have
radically different characteristics, are maintained by different groups
and bodies, and are perpetually evolving. In this context, the
development of an infrastructure that allows to access, use, and analyze
such changing and growing amounts of data is both technically
challenging, offers huge benefits to the scientific community and is
potentially extremely viable commercially.
The Grid represents one way in which such an infrastructure can be
developed and supported, providing seamless access to computational and
data resources. This conference builds on several previous international
workshops and provides a focus on all aspects related to the application
of Grid technologies to the challenges facing the life science
community.
Topics
The program committee welcomes the submission of original manuscripts
addressing the problem of Grid Systems for Life Sciences. Authors should
report relevant experiences, present novel approaches to existing
problems and describe and raise issues that must be overcome to
facilitate Grid-based Life Science e-Research. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:
* Experiences applying Grid technologies in the life sciences
* Computational and data Grid architectures for the life sciences
* Security of clinical and life science data sets including
experiences in ethics and information governance
* Usability of Grid based life science systems
* Interoperability of Grid systems to support life science
research
* Grid based data access and integration of life science data sets
* Applications and case studies on using the Grid in the life
science domain
* Computational workflows to support life science research
processes
* Grid based drug discovery and pharmacogenomics
* Experiences accessing and using clinical data sets within and
between organisations
* Grid based clinical trials and epidemiological studies
* Grid based longitudinal studies
* Development and usage of ontologies for the life sciences
* Semantic Grid approaches for the life sciences
Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work. Papers
should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages on A4 paper size, using at
least 1 inch margins and 12-point font. Authors should submit a PDF or
PostScript file that will print on a PostScript printer. Electronic
submission through the symposium website (www.lsgrid.org/2007) is
strongly encouraged. Submission implies the willingness of at least one
of the authors to register and present the paper.
Important Dates
* Submission deadline of Abstracts for posters/demonstration (15th
June 2007) (800 words)
* Submission deadline of Papers (29th June 2007) (up to 10 pages).
* Notification of Acceptance (20th July 2007)
* Submission of Camera Ready Version of Paper (3rd August 2007)
Program Chair
Professor Richard Sinnott
National e-Science Centre, Glasgow, UK
Note that this conference will take place the week after the Braemar
Highland Games (http://www.braemargathering.org/
<http://www.braemargathering.org/> ) in Scotland and the week before the
UK e-Science All Hands Meeting (http://www.allhands.org.uk/
<http://www.allhands.org.uk/> ) in Nottingham, for those wishing to have
more than one reason to be in the UK at this time!
Regards,
Rich
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Dr Richard Sinnott (Professorial Research Fellow)
Technical Director National e-Science Centre
University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ
Tel: +44-(0)141-330-8606 Fax: -8625 Mob: 0795-2376627
Email: r.sinnott(a)nesc.gla.ac.uk
