The main themes and research topics of interest will regard the applications of parallel and high performance computing to biology and medicine, as well as Cloud Computing opportunities and problems for bioinformatics and biomedical applications, including:

• Large scale biological and biomedical databases

• Data integration and ontologies in biology and medicine

• Integration and analysis of molecular and clinical data

• Parallel bioinformatics algorithms

• Parallel visualization and exploration of omics and clinical data

• Parallel visualization and analysis of biomedical images

• Computing environments for large scale collaboration

• Scientific workflows in bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Emerging architectures and programming models for bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Parallel processing of bio-signals

• Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes

• Cloud Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Cloud Computing for health systems

• Privacy issues for Cloud-based biomedical applications

• (Web) Services for bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Grid Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine

• Peer-To-Peer Computing for bioinformatics and biomedicine