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/