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=================================================================== Special Session on High Performance Computing for AI-driven Genomics @ CIBB 2025 ===================================================================

Call for Papers

=================================================================== September 10 - 12, 2025, Milan, Italy Conference Website: https://www.bioinformatics.polimi.it/CIBB2025/#special-tracks ===================================================================

Aims and Scope: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The growing availability of genomic data represents both a vast resource and a significant computational challenge. This enormous volume of data provides valuable insights into the DNA structure of organisms. However, processing a massive amount of genomic sequences demands substantial computational power.

High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructures have become pivotal for efficiently exploring, analyzing, and interpreting large genomic collections, enhancing advancements across all fields of computational genomics. Moreover, GPU-accelerated computing enables highly parallelized operations, significantly improving the efficiency of deep learning models, large-scale sequence alignments, and genomic simulations.

This special session aims to bring together researchers working at the intersection of deep learning, High-Performance Computing (HPC), including GPU-accelerated computing, alongside genomic data modeling and analysis. By focusing on the integration of advanced computational techniques with genomic research, the session fosters collaboration and innovation in developing new methodologies for tackling the challenges posed by large-scale genomic datasets. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Topics of Interest: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Deep Learning for Genomic Data Modeling - Generative Models for Synthetic Genomes Generation - Computer Vision Integration in Computational Genomics - Modeling Genome and Pangenome Large-Scale Graphs with Graph Neural Networks - Leveraging Large Language Models (LLMs) in Genomic Data Science - Explainable AI in Genomics: Methods and Applications - High-Performance Computing for Scalable Genomic Workflows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Special Session Organizers: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ilaria Billato, University of Padova, Italy Riccardo Ceccaroni, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Emanuel Di Nardo, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Lorenzo Di Rocco, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Umberto Ferraro Petrillo, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Important Dates: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Short paper submission: April 30, 2025 - Acceptance/rejection notification: June 23-30, 2025 - Camera-ready short paper submission: July 6, 2025 - Conference: September 10 - 12, 2025 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Proceedings: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submitted contributions will be peer-reviewed, and all accepted papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit extended versions for publication in the Springer Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics (LNBI) or a selected top bioinformatics journal. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Lorenzo Di Rocco Postdoctoral Researcher Department of Statistical Sciences La Sapienza - University of Rome P.le Aldo Moro, 5 00185 - Rome, Italy e-mail: lorenzo.dirocco@uniroma1.it