Dear all: I apologize. I was going to mention this at GGF last week, but forgot. Please note that limited conference registration is complimentary, thanks to sponsorship by Riken. --------- Apologies for cross-posting Call for Participation: Life Science Grid Workshop (LSGRID2006) Date: October 13th(Fri)-14th(Sat) Place: 1-7-22 Suehiro-cho, Tsurumi-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan Venue: Koryuto Hall, Main Office Building, RIKEN Yokohama Institute Map: http://www.yokohama.riken.jp/eng/access/ Language: English Fee: Free; 150 seats are available; pre-registration is strongly recommended Please visit the following web site for Registration and Program: http://big.gsc.riken.jp/index_html/lsgrid2006/ Organized by: RIKEN Sponsored by: Initiative for Parallel Bioinformatics (IPAB) Workshop Overview: The life science community is experiencing a period of unprecedented change, challenge and opportunity. With the completion of the sequencing of the human genome (and ever increasing numbers of other genomes), the opportunities of in-silico scientific research offer a new horizon of possibilities: from rapid targeted drug discovery, identification of genetic factors to disease causes and epidemiological studies through to complete biological understanding of complete organisms and tailored genetic treatments supporting e-Health solutions. The possibilities abound! Fundamental to the realization of this vision is the infrastructure needed to use and analyze the vast array of data sets associated with such research. These data sets are growing exponentially, often have radically different characteristics, are often maintained by completely different groups and bodies, and importantly 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. Similarly, such in-silico research necessitates access to and usage of large scale high performance computing infrastructures for the wider life science research community. Here life science is italicized since it is essential that such infrastructures are made accessible to potentially non-computer savvy biologists and related research communities. The Grid represents one way in which such an infrastructure can be developed and supported, providing seamless access to computational and data resources. However Grid technologies and their associated standards are changing and evolving with moves towards web service-based service oriented architectures. How best to develop open Grid based systems allowing collaborative inter-organizational life science research to be undertaken without compromising the security of individual sites and their resources offers numerous challenges, especially in supporting flexible, scalable and secure collaborations. The purpose of the Life Science Grid workshop is to explore this problem space and gain a better understanding of how Grids, their architectures and associated technologies can be developed and applied to address these challenges. This is the third occurrence of the Life Science Grid workshop with previous events held in Kanazawa in 2004 and in Singapore in 2005. The Life Science Grid 2006 workshop which was held in Yokohama in 2006 received numerous high quality papers and poster presentations from the complete spectrum of the life science research domain and the best of these were selected for presentation at the workshop. Program (Tentative): Keynotes amd invited talk: Dr Paul Gilna (Executive Director, CAMERA) "The CAMERA project; a cyberinfrastructure for microbial metagenomic research" Professor Carole Goble (University of Manchester) "Sense and Sensibility: Adding meaning to metadata for manageable middleware" Dr Makoto Taiji (Team Leader, RIKEN GSC) "Peta Flops Molecular Dynamics Computing (MDGRAPE3) " Technical Session 1: Grid based genome analysis Gridifying Viral MicroRNAs Identification Computational grid for comparative genomics to identify conserved non-coding regions Technical Session2: Security infrastructures Towards Data Grids for Microarray Expression Profiles Secure, Reliable and Dynamic Access to Distributed Clinical Data User-Oriented Access to Secure Biomedical Resources through the Grid Technical Session3: Grid architectures for the life sciences Distributed Workflow Management System based on Publish-Subscribe Notification for Web Services RABC: New Barrier-less Approach for Public Computing Platform Technical Session4: Large scale high throughput Grid computing Large Scale In Silico Screening on Grid Infrastructures Parameter Mining: Discovery of Parameter Characteristics using Geometrical Patterns of Parameter-Parameter Dependencies on Differential Equations September 2006 Program Chairs Richard Sinnott (National e-Science Centre, Glasgow, UK) David Angulo (DePaul Univ., USA) Local Chair Akihiko Konagaya (RIKEN GSC, Japan) ------------- David Sigfredo Angulo Faculty DePaul University School of Computer Science, Telecommunications, and Information Systems dangulo@cti.depaul.edu 312-362-5041