SBOL Editors Weekly Update - March 8th, 2019

[sbol-announce]

Harmony 2019

Caltech, Pasadena, California, USA on March 25 - 29

Join the SBOL community at HARMONY: a hackathon-style meeting that members of the SBOL community attend annually to discuss the development of the SBOL data model and SBOL visual. The registration deadline is TODAY--𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗖𝗛 8. After this, fees will increase by $50.

Please register using the online form.

To help us plan HARMONY 2019 and to help allocate travel support better, please fill out this short pre-meeting survey.

More information at http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2019

If you'd like to propose a topic for a breakout session, please email your idea to sbol-editors@googlegroups.com

SEPs for SBOL Visual:

We have SEPs submitted to SBOL visual currently in discussion. If you are curious to read and contribute to the current discussion, follow the links below. 

No SEPs Pending

SEPs for Data Model:

We have some ongoing discussions about proposing features to the SBOL data model. If you are interested about the topics listed below, feel free to add to the discussions before they are moved to a vote. The voting process will determine whether these features will be accepted or rejected for the upcoming SBOL data model specification release. 

Data Model 2.3 Feature Request:

SEP 32: Do not rename ontologically defined predicates [INFO] [DISCUSSION]

SEP 13: Sequence insertion and replacement [INFO] [DISCUSSION]

SEP 27: Adding a type field to Activity class [INFO] [DISCUSSION]

SEP 24:  Best practices for host context / ontologies for experiments [INFO] [DISCUSSION]

Data Model 3.0 Feature Request:

SEP 22: Rename displayId to id [INFO] [DISCUSSION]

SEP 25: Merge ComponentDefinition and ModuleDefinition [INFO] [DISCUSSION]