Kazuki Joe

Jesus Labarta

Toshinori Sato

This book constitutes the refereed joint post-conference proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on High-Performance Computing, ISHPC 2005, held in, Japan, in 2005. It also includes the refereed post-proceedings of the First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems 2006, ALPS2006, and some from the Workshop on Applications for PetaFLOPS Computing, APC 2005. A total of 42 papers were carefully selected from 76 submissions, covering a huge range of topics.

6th International Symposium, ISHPC 2005, Nara, Japan, September 7-9, 2005, First International Workshop on Advance Low Power Systems, ALPS 2006, Revised Selected Papers

High-Performance Computing

Takatoki Yamamoto

Ayae Honda

Akihide Ryo

Infectious diseases are associated with approximately 20% of global mortality, with viral diseases causing about one third of these deaths. Besides newly emerging and re-emerging viral infections will continue to pose a threat to human survival globally. In this case scientific advances have greatly been increased to defend against those pathogens. For example, rapid genomic sequencing, proteomics, epigenomics, nanotechnology, and other advanced tools are being applied to detect viruses at the point of care and to track their spread within human populations as well as to understand virus-host interaction and virus induced pathogenesis. From rapid identification of new viruses to prevention with vaccination and treatment with effective therapeutics, biomedical research has continuously provided tools to meet the constant threat of emerging viral pathogens. Despite these advances, each new disease brings unique challenges to scientists every year. So we must stay at the cutting edge of scientific discovery, working energetically to develop new tools to combat the ever-changing threats they pose. Our research topic highlights such advanced and new technology based virus research which definitely bolsters the researcher's ability to tackle emerging, re-emerging and stable viral pathogens. We are credulous that the papers including in the e-books will be beneficial to the experts in the field to understand the molecular, immunological, ecological and clinical aspects of the next generation researches for the prevention and control of infectious diseases caused by viruses.

Toshinori Sato

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