Dear COMBINE community,
The Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) is an
initiative to coordinate the development of the various community
standards and formats in systems biology, synthetic biology and related
fields. HARMONY is a codefest-type meeting, with a focus on 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.
HARMONY 2021 will be an online only meeting similar to COMBINE 2020 (
http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2020).
Most of the day will be scheduled by the communities as breakouts. In
addition, we will have some time each day for community discussion and
wrap-ups of breakouts and advertisements for following breakouts.
Full details can be found at:
http://co.mbine.org/events/HARMONY_2021
IMPORTANT DATES
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Breakout submission deadline: 23rd Feb 2021
Lightning talk submission deadline: 23rd Feb 2021
Notification of acceptance of breakouts: 1st March 2021
HARMONY Workshop: 22-26th March 2021
REGISTRATION
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Registration for the meeting is open and is free. Please register at
the link below as soon as possible. This will help us plan the schedule
and match your interests to the timing of the breakouts, etc. Note:
only registered attendees will be sent information related to video
conferencing links, etc.
Registration:
https://forms.gle/U6SHJyowQnwJ7fmb8
CALL FOR BREAKOUT SESSIONS
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All attendees can suggest breakout sessions for hacking and/or
detailed discussions of certain aspects of one or several of the COMBINE
standard(s), metadata and semantic annotations (format-specific or
overarching), application and implementations of the COMBINE standards,
or any other topic relevant for the COMBINE community. The topics for
those breakout sessions, and the time slots which would suit their
communities can be submitted at the link below.
Note: breakout session organisers will be responsible for creating and hosting their own online sessions.
Breakout proposals:
https://forms.gle/J13diBX6iipx4w8E9
CALL FOR LIGHTNING TALKS
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Requests for a lightning talk (3 min max.) can be submitted via the
form below. Please use several forms if you want to submit abstracts on
different topics. The submission deadline is outlined above. Talks will
take place during the community session.
Lightning talk submission:
https://forms.gle/z1kzkN2NNaN9JzMM6
TOPICS OF INTEREST
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Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to:
- Data exchange, pipelines and model standards for systems and synthetic biology
- Visualization and graphical notation standards for systems and synthetic biology
- Standards for sharing and analysing biological pathway data
- Standards for computational biological models and modelling support
- Metadata description and model annotation in COMBINE standard formats
- Implementation of COMBINE standards in tools, databases and other resources
- Integrated model and data management for systems and synthetic biology
- Standardization of Artificial Intelligence approaches in biological modelling
- Emerging standardization needs and multicellular modeling
- Community aspects of COMBINE
More on the COMBINE standards at
http://co.mbine.org/standards
Best regards,
The COMBINE Coordinators
Gary Bader, University of Toronto, Canada
Padraig Gleeson, University College London, UK
Martin Golebiewski, Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS), Germany
Thomas Gorochowski, University of Bristol, UK
Sarah Keating, University College London, UK
Matthias König, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Chris J. Myers, University of Colorado Boulder, USA
David Nickerson, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Falk Schreiber, University of Konstanz, Germany
Dagmar Waltemath, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
http://co.mbine.org/about