Call for Papers: Special Issue on High-Performance Computational Biology

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 42 KB
• Volume: 62
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0743-7315
• DOI: 10.1006/jpdc.2002.1873

✦ Synopsis

Computational biology is fast emerging as an important discipline for academic research and industrial application. The large size of biological data sets, the inherent complexity of biological problems, and the necessity to deal with error-prone data all result in large run-time and memory requirements. Biological sequence database are growing at an exponential rate. Recent invention of microarrays has facilitated high-throughput studies of gene expression, allowing researchers to simultaneously sample the expression levels of tens of thousands of genes. All of these factors will make the application of parallel and distributed processing increasingly important in computational biology.

The goal of this special issue is to provide a forum for the publication of important research contributions in developing high-performance computing solutions to problems arising from molecular biology. We are especially interested in parallel algorithms for solving fundamental as well as applied problems, memory-efficient algorithms, large-scale data-mining techniques, and design of high-performance software.