Fwd: Join us at HARMONY 2025: Advancing Computational Biology Standards | April 15-18, KU Leuven

[Luiz Carlos Maia Ladeira]

Dear colleagues,

We are pleased to invite you to HARMONY 2025 a codefest-type meeting with a focus on the development of the standards, interoperability, and infrastructure. There are generally not many general discussions or oral presentations during HARMONY; instead, the time is devoted to allowing hands-on hacking and interaction between people focused on practical development of software and standards. This year's event will be held at KU Leuven, Belgium, from April 15-18, 2025.

HARMONY 2025 is going to be organized primarily as an in-person event, with individual breakout sessions responsible for enabling remote participation as needed.

Most of each day will be scheduled by the communities as breakouts, with lightning talks scheduled on the first day. Posters will be displayed for the duration of the meeting. In addition, we will have some time each day for community discussion and wrap-ups of breakouts and advertisements for following breakouts.

Key Dates:

• Breakout & Tutorial Submissions: February 16, 2025 Submit here
• Lightning Talk & Poster Submissions: February 23, 2025 Submit here
• Notification of acceptance for breakout and tutorials: March 03, 2025
• Notification of acceptance for lightning talks and posters: March 14, 2025
• Registration Deadline: March 21, 2025 Register here

Event Details:

• Dates: April 15-18, 2025 (Tuesday to Friday)
• Location: KU Leuven, Onderwijs en Navorsing 2
• Address: Herestraat 49, 3000 Leuven, Belgium
• Cost: HARMONY registration is free of charge

One Week, Three Events, One Location! HARMONY will run concurrently with the Disease Maps Community Meeting 2025 (April 15-17), with shared meals and coffee breaks. This interaction aims to foster networking and collaboration opportunities. Registrations should be done separately. “Can I register for both?” Yes, you can. The meetings will be at the same venue, in separate rooms. So this facilitates exchange between talks and interaction at the joint meeting hall for poster sessions and coffee breaks.

Pre-Event warm-up: Consider joining byteMAL'25, a special conference for early-career researchers, taking place on April 14th. Stay tuned for more information soon.

More information at co.mbine.org/events

See you in Leuven!

Best regards,
The HARMONY 2025 Organizing Committee
Local Organizers: Liesbet Geris, Luiz Ladeira, and Bernard Staumont

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Luiz C. M. Ladeira, PhD

Postdoctoral Researcher

GIGA Molecular & Computational Biology - Biomechanics Research Unit
GIGA Institute, University of Liège
Avenue de l'Hôpital, 11, B34 +5
4000 Liège - Belgium