ARES 2006

1st International Workshop on Bioinformatics
and Security (BIOS 06)

In Conjunction with ARES 2006

Vienna, Austria

20-22 April, 2006

Call for Papers

Technological advances in high-throughput techniques and efficient data
gathering methods coupled with a world wide effort in computational biology have
resulted in a vast amount of life science data often available in distributed
and heterogeneous repositories. These repositories contain interesting
information such as sequence and structure data, annotations for biological data,
results of complex and expensive computations, bio-medical publications, and so
on. Newer and more sophisticated computational techniques to analyze such data
are also being developed and made available for public use at a rapid pace.
Nonetheless, the multiplicity in the objectives, methods, representation, and
platforms of these data sources and analysis tools have created an urgent and
immediate need for research in resource integration and platform independent
processing of investigative queries involving heterogeneous data sources and
analysis tools. It is now universally recognized that a database approach to
analysis and management of biological data offers a convenient, high level, and
efficient alternative to high volume biological data processing and management.
Advances in database integration, query processing, web technology, work flow
systems, and object-orientation can be leveraged to develop novel
high-performance data management systems for biological applications. But also
security is very important in this area and therefore this workshop has these
two focuses.