The growth of genome data and computational requirements overwhelm the capacity of servers. Many institutions and NIH are considering the cloud computing service as a cost-effective alternative to scale up research. Privacy and security are the major concerns when deploying cloud-based data analysis tools. In the past few years, secure computation methods have witnessed significant performance improvement but it is still not clear if they are applicable to biomedical challenges involving big data. The goal of this challenge is to evaluate the performance of state-of-the-arts methods that ensures rigorous data confidentiality during data analysis in a cloud environment.
Timeline
Important time points
02/12/2016 Competition registration open
03/15/2016 (delayed to 3/18/2016) Competition start (data release to registered teams)
03/31/2016 Early competition registration
05/31/2016 Workshop registration deadline (onsite attendance)
09/07/2016 Solutions submission registration due (No more registration allowed after 09/07/2016). Here
09/14/2016 Solutions submission due. Here
no later than 10/18/2016 Student travel awards announced
11/11/2016 One day workshop
11/30/2016 (delayed to 12/31/2016)(extended to 1/15/2017) BMC Medical Genomic (IF:2.726) special issue submission (Fees after acceptance from BMC: £1370/$2145/€1745) (see guideline for authors). To submit your manuscript, please make sure all figures have been embedded into the submitted PDF manuscript and all figure files have been named according to their figure numbers (e.g., Figure1, Figure2, etc.) for the review process. Incorrect format may result in review delay. If you have an appendix or supplementary along with the main manuscript, please combine all files into a single PDF file.Submit your paper here
* 11/12/2016 GenoPri'16 (colocating with AMIA fall symposium) *
03/31/2016 Early competition registration
05/31/2016 Workshop registration deadline (onsite attendance)
09/07/2016 Solutions submission registration due (No more registration allowed after 09/07/2016). Here
09/14/2016 Solutions submission due. Here
no later than 10/18/2016 Student travel awards announced
11/11/2016 One day workshop
* 11/12/2016 GenoPri'16 (colocating with AMIA fall symposium) *
Workshop paper submission (due to 12/31/2016)(extended to 1/15/2017).
Invitation letter for U.S. VISA application
Travel awards for students
Travel awards winners
- Peter Rindal, Oregon State Univerity
- Zhiyu Wan, Vanderbilt University
- Xiao Wang, University of Maryland
- Yuhou Xia, Princeton University
- Gizem Cetin, WPI
- Md Momin Al Aziz, University of Manitoba