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You are invited to submit papers to the HPCLife 2006. Life sciences and biology encompass research and development in many areas such as biophysics, biochemistry, biology, physiology, biomedicine, and environmental sciences. Increasingly, the tasks, applications and computer systems involved in these research areas are based on large amount of data and on complex models, posing considerable requirements for computing power and storage resources. To cope with these demands, computational systems increasingly integrate different facets of high performance computing, such as parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, and dedicated hardware and computer architecture (such as FPGA and GPU).
The HPCLife’s goal is to facilitate exchange of ideas and collaborations between computer scientists, mathematicians, biomedical engineers, biologists and life scientists that apply high performance computing in the context of computational biology and bioinformatics. The workshop will provide a forum for discussion of the latest research in developing high-performance computing solutions to problems found in modeling, analysis and exploration of all aspects of life sciences, ranging from effects on the molecular level to complex interactions networks. Contributions of interest will address topics related to the development, deployment, application and evaluation of distributed, high-performance and dedicated hardware technologies in the context of the following computational biology and bioinformatics areas:

• Analysis, modeling and simulation of processes like pathways, protein interactions, and whole systems;
• Large-scale (storage, computation, components/systems) studies in computational biology and bioinformatics;
• Visualization and image management and processing of biological data;
• Linkage and sequence analysis;
• Molecule design and molecular dynamics;
• Protein folding and unfolding;
• Information retrieval and knowledge discovery including data and text mining;