CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
Workshop on Computational and Data Challenges in Genomic Sequencing
Held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2015, Austin, Texas
Sunday, November 15, 2015, 9 AM-12:30 PM
http://sc15compgenome.hpc.mssm.edu/
You may also be interested in our afternoon workshop on Computational Approaches for Cancer
http://sc15compcancer.hpc.mssm.edu
Genomic sequencing is one of the most vital biological tasks today because of its promise to (1) improve human health through precision medicine, (2) discover sustainable sources of energy, and (3) help us better understand our world. Our goal is to build an interdisciplinary community of biologists, computer and computational scientists to identify and work towards solving joint short- and long-term challenges in data and computations for genomic analytic pipelines. Many traditional high performance computing centers are learning to adapt to the diverse workload of genomic sequencing and many biologists are discovering the advantages that high performance computing can bring to their research. By sharing our diverse experiences and common concerns, we can reduce duplication and leverage our joint efforts to drive towards overall progress in this field. This workshop will help support the acceleration of scientific progress and innovation by spurring interdisciplinary understanding through human interaction.
Agenda
9:00 - 9:45 AM Keynote: The Genomic Data Commons
Robert Grossman, PhD., University of Chicago
9:45 - 10:30 AM Computational and data challenges in cancer research
Anthony Kerlavage, Ph.D., National Cancer Institute
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - noon Computational Approaches
- To cloud or not to cloud, Stephen Litster, Ph.D., Novartis
- Parallel methods and software for next generation sequencing analysis, Srinivas Aluru, Ph.D., Georgia Institute of Technology,
- The iPlant collaborative, Matthew Vaughn, Ph.D., University of Texas
Noon-12:30 PM Bridging communities: collaborating across disciplines (Panel)
- Kjiersten Fagnan, Ph.D., Moderator
- Peter Clapham, Ph.D., Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute
- Theresa Windus, Ph.D., Iowa State University
- Ketan Paranjape, Intel
Workshop Organizers:
- Steve Bailey, National Institutes of Health
- Shane Canon, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Kjiersten Fagnan, Ph.D., Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's Joint Genome Institute
- Patricia Kovatch, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Ravi Madduri, Ph.D., Argonne National Laboratory
- Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D., National Institutes of Health
- Dan Stanzione, Ph.D., Texas Advanced Computing Center
- Matthew Vaughn, Ph.D., University of Texas
- Jaroslaw Zola, Ph.D., University of Buffalo
