COMBINE 2010

Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, Scotland
Oct. 6–9, 2010

In 2010, we inaugurated a new, broader series of meetings to replace, among other events, the SBML and SBGN forums. The new meetings are a recognition of the fact that there are multiple allied standardization efforts that should work together towards smooth interoperability. Moreover, we believe a joint meeting makes good economic sense: compared to multiple separate workshops, they reduce the overall number of meetings, travel, and money spent over the year. To reflect its broad scope, we have called the new workshop series the annual meeting of COMBINE:

COMBINE 2010 took place on October 6–9, 2010, immediately before ICSB 2010, in Edinburgh, Scotland. The final session of COMBINE (October 9, 2010) was followed by a special event to mark the 10th anniversary of SBML.

Agenda

The activities at COMBINE meetings are similar to typical workshops, with oral and poster presentations, break-out discussions, and more. The following table summarizes the organization of the 2010 event across the four days. A detailed agenda appears below.

In addition to being available for downloading from below, many of the presentations and the posters are now part of the Nature Precedings COMBINE 2010 collection.

Wednesday, October 6

Thursday, October 7

Friday, October 8

(1) This presentation begins with audio only. Video begins partway through.

(2) Audio and video begin partway through the presentation.

Saturday, October 9

(3) The video ends before the end of the talk. However, the audio continues throughout.

Posters

COMBINE 2010 offered the opportunity for attendees to display posters. This served as a means for people to inform each other about their software and other projects in a setting that allowed interaction and in-depth discussion.

The maximum poster size was A0, which is 841mm (width) x 1189mm (height), or approximately 33in x 46in, in a portrait orientation. This was essentially the same size as the ICSB 2010 posters.

Poster sessions were held semi-concurrently with lunch breaks. The basic approach was to make the breaks extra long, so that people could get some food & beverages, then come back and discuss their work in the poster room.

Location

The meeting was held in the Informatics Forum building at the University of Edinburgh. This is a new center for innovation and interaction—ideally suited to the goals of COMBINE. This venue is located in the centre of the University's main campus.

Informatics Forum
Room G07
University of Edinburgh
10 Crichton Street
Edinburgh, EH8 9AB
Scotland, United Kingdom

Funding Acknowledgments

Support for COMBINE 2010 was provided by the following organizations:

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council

NIH/NIGMS

ENFIN

Organization

COMBINE 2010 was organized by the following people (listed in alphabetical order):

• Nadia Anwar, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
• Emek Demir, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (USA)
• Michael Hucka, California Institute of Technology (USA)
• Camille Laibe, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, UK)
• Nicolas Le Novère, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI, UK)
• Catherine Lloyd, Auckland Bioengineering Institute (New Zealand)
• Stuart Moodie, University of Edinburgh (UK)
• Anatoly Sorokin, University of Edinburgh (UK)

For general information about the meeting, and travel arrangements for the speakers of October 9th, contacts were:

For practical information on the setting and local organisation, contacts were: