2014
ACM International Workshop on Big Data in Life Sciences – BigLS
2014
Held
in conjunction with the ACM BCB 2014, Newport Beach, CA
Saturday,
September 20, 2014
Location: Salon 3
Organizers:
Ananth Kalyanaraman, Associate Professor, Washington State
University
Jaroslaw Zola, Assistant Professor, University at Buffalo,
SUNY
TECHNICAL
PROGRAM
8:45am – 10:30am SESSION I: INVITED TALKS
8:45am-9am:
Opening remarks
Ananth Kalyanaraman and Jaroslaw Zola
9am-9:45am:
Invited paper
“Feature subset selection for inferring relative
importance of taxonomy”
Gregory Ditzler and Gail Rosen, Drexel
University
9:45am-10:30am:
Invited talk
“Promises and challenges in analysis of biological
big data”
Jason McDermott, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
10:30am-11am: Coffee break
11am – 12:30pm SESSION II: KEYNOTE ADDDRESS
“Quantifying
your superorganism body using big data supercomputing”
Larry
Smarr, University of California, San Diego
Founding Director of
Calit2,
Harry E. Gruber
Professor in Computer Science and Engineering
2pm – 3:30pm SESSION III: PEER REVIEWED PAPERS
2pm-2:30pm:
“Big
data challenges for estimating genome assembler quality”
Abhishek
Biswas, David Gauthier, Desh Ranjan, Mohammad Zubair
2:30pm-3:00pm:
“RNA-Seq
gene and transcript expression analysis using the BioExtract Server
and iPlant Collaborative”
Etienne Gnimpieba, Chango Abalo, Carol
M. Lushbough
3pm-3:30pm:
“AlignMR:
Mass spectrometry peak alignment using Hadoop MapReduce”
Urmi
Bhayani and John Springer
3:30pm – 5pm SESSION IV: STUDENT POSTERS AND STUDENT MENTORING SESSION
3:30pm-4pm:
Student
poster presentations
4pm-5pm:
Mentoring
interaction between faculty/researchers
and students.
Coffee/refreshments will be available between
4-4:30pm.
List of poster presenters to be announced after
student travel scholarships have been awarded.
Please look for
updates on the BigLS workshop webpage: http://www.bigls.org/