The 13th SBML Forum Meeting

Wallenberg Conference Center at the University of Gothenburg
August 27–28, 2008

The annual SBML Forum meetings were an opportunity for the SBML community to meet face-to-face and discuss developments in SBML as well as software systems for systems biology. SBML Forum Meetings included technical presentations by software developers, modelers and researchers on topics relevant to software for systems biology, as well as focused discussions about SBML itself. (Attendees did not receive tutorials about SBML itself, but were referred to the documents at http://sbml.org/Documents and the sbml-discuss mailing list for questions of a more basic nature about SBML.)

There were times available during the meeting for people to give short presentations on the following topics: SBML-enabled applications, the use of SBML to integrate different applications, proposals for SBML extensions, proposals for standards that compliment SBML, announcements of software or standards or events of interest to SBML users, and general experiences of using SBML "in the field".

Agenda

Files and supplementary materials associated with people's presentations are available below.

Wednesday, August 27

Note: presentation times were 5 minutes plus 2 minutes for questions. Times in the schedule below have been adjusted post-hoc to account for schedule shifts due to ad-hoc discussions that arose during presentations.

Thursday, August 28

In some cases, there are no associated slides because the presentation/discussion consisted either of visiting a web page or whiteboard interaction. The transcripts are accounts of the discussions, written by Mike Hucka from recordings taken during the meting.

Travel

The 2008 SBML Forum workshop took place in the Wallenberg Conference Centre of the Medicinaberget at the University of Gothenburg.

Please refer to the ICSB 2008 travel information page for more information about Göteborg and the convention center there. We regret that we had no travel support available for this meeting. We did, however, arrange for coffee breaks, a group dinner on August 27, and more.

The weather in Gothenburg at the end of August is mild with frequent chances of showers. Temperature ranges from 15–25 C (59–77 Fahrenheit) during the day and 10–15 C (50–59 Fahrenheit) during the night.

We recommended that if you were traveling from outside of Sweden, you brought an appropriate power plug converter for your laptop and all other electrical devices. Electric current in Sweden is 50 Hz, 220-240 V (the same as in central Europe). The plug types are depicted below. For more detailed information on the types of plugs that are used, as well as electrical standards in various countries, please visit http://users.pandora.be/worldstandards/electricity.htm .

Acknowledgments

This year's SBML Forum is supported by

• The National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  (Grant #GM070923) USA
• The Beckman Institute BNMC
  California Institute of Technology
  Pasadena, California, USA

Contacts