Area and Scope

Researchers in the field of Life Sciences rely increasingly on information technology to extract and manage relevant knowledge. The complex computational and data management needs of life sciences research make Grid technologies an attractive support solution. However, many important issues must be addressed before the Life Sciences Grid becomes commonplace. The scope of this workshop focuses on life science applications of grid systems especially for research from bioinformatics to systems biology which require heterogeneous data integration from genome to phenome, mathematical modeling and simulation from molecular to population levels, and high performance computing including parallel processing, special hardware and grid computing.

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 raise important novel issues. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, those in the following list: