<div dir="ltr"><div><font size="4" color="#000000"><span id="m_-7224127569986262110gmail-docs-internal-guid-381fafb7-7fff-3178-3af3-2fe0ba1ba44e"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CIBB 2023: </span></span></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-family:Arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Special session on Distributed computing </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:large;background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">in bioinformatics and computational biology </span></div><div><font size="4" color="#000000">Call for papers<br></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#000000">September<span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"> 6-7, 2023, Padua, Italy</span></font></div><div><font size="4" color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><font color="#000000"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-family:Arial;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: </span></font></font><a href="https://cibb2023.dei.unipd.it/call-for-special.html" target="_blank"><font size="4">https://cibb2023.dei.unipd.it/call-for-special.html</font></a></div><div><br></div><div><span id="m_-7224127569986262110gmail-docs-internal-guid-75a792ee-7fff-86ad-76aa-10186e07c363"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.04;text-align:justify;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Distributed computing systems have become pivotal in the analysis of bioinformatics data, especially for the investigation of complex biological problems that require intense computational workloads. The usage of distributed computing systems like Apache Spark, in fact, might allow scientific discoveries on bioinformatics data that otherwise would be impossible if the analyses were performed on personal computers.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our special session on "Distributed computing in bioinformatics and computational biology" aims at calling for researchers able to show the potential and the advance of distributed computing resources to make accurate computational analyses in biological datasets.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">With this special session, we would like to gather scientific contributions aimed at optimizing the usage of distributed computing systems and resources in any bioinformatics, genomics, and proteomics context. The results presented in these studies would be useful and helpful both for the distributed computing experts and for inexperienced users approaching this subject for the first time.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.04;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Topics of interest include:</b></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Distributed computing systems in genomics and proteomics</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Bioinformatics projects enhanced by distributed computing platforms</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Optimisation of distributed computing systems</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Application of machine learning methods to bioinformatics datasets enhanced through distributed computing</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Protocols for efficient usage of distributed computing systems</span></p></li></ul><div><font color="#212529" face="Roboto, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:15.3333px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><span id="m_-7224127569986262110gmail-docs-internal-guid-495209e2-7fff-4fa4-f9f5-5c15bc259093"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:2.04;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Special session organizers:</b></span></p><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/view/davidechicco" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Davide Chicco</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , University of Toronto, Canada</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/umbfer/home" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Umberto Ferraro Petrillo</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://docenti.unisa.it/000763/en/curriculum" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Giuseppe Cattaneo</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , Università di Salerno, Italy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://pure.unipa.it/en/persons/raffaele-giancarlo-4" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Raffaele Giancarlo</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , Università di Palermo, Italy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://phd.uniroma1.it/web/LORENZO-DI-ROCCO_nP1581944_IT.aspx" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Lorenzo Di Rocco</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://research.uniroma1.it/researcher/cf18984a5eefd5ae99d20c71f239ff7d28a42eb59996787cc2dded30" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;color:rgb(155,0,20);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Giorgio Grani</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> , Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy</span></p></li></ul><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Important Dates</b></span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Short paper submission: April 30, 2023</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Acceptance/rejection notification: June 9, 2023</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Camera-ready short paper submission: June 23, 2023</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:15px;list-style-type:none;font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;background-color:rgb(255,255,0);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">- Conference: September 6-8, 2023</span></p></li></ul><br><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><b>Proceedings</b></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The proceedings will not be indexed on Scopus, but, after the conference, the authors of all the accepted short papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit an extended version of their manuscripts to the conference proceedings book in </span><a href="https://www.springer.com/series/5381" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(155,0,20);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI)</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, or to a supplement in a journal such as </span><a href="https://bmcbioinformatics.biomedcentral.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(155,0,20);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BMC Bioinformatics</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> or </span><a href="https://bmcmedinformdecismak.biomedcentral.com/" target="_blank" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(155,0,20);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making</span></a><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Roboto,sans-serif;color:rgb(33,37,41);font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></span></div></span></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Lorenzo Di Rocco<br>PhD Student</div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136)">Department of Statistical Sciences <br>La Sapienza - University of Rome<br>P.le Aldo Moro, 5<br>00185 - Rome, Italy<br>e-mail: <a href="mailto:lorenzo.dirocco@uniroma1.it" target="_blank">lorenzo.dirocco@uniroma1.it</a></div></div></div></div>