The 14th SBML Forum Meeting

Stanford University
September 3–4, 2009

The annual SBML Forum meeting is an opportunity for the SBML community to meet face-to-face and discuss developments in SBML as well as software systems for systems biology. The 2009 meeting 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. (There were no tutorials about SBML itself, however, and interested parties are 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 complement SBML, announcements of software or standards or events of interest to SBML users, and general experiences of using SBML "in the field".

We were grateful for support from the following organizations for the 2009 SBML Forum:

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

Agenda

The meeting location was room 380-Y in building Jordan Hall #380.

Thursday, September 3

The California Cafe is on the Stanford campus, and attendees were able to walk to the meeting room or take the A-line Marguerite bus.

Friday, September 4

Fees

The 2009 SBML Forum took place as a workshop of ICSB 2009. Participants were not required to attend ICSB 2009; however, if not, they still had to register with ICSB 2009 and indicate they were attending a workshop. A small fee of US $45 was charged by ICSB for workshop attendance to cover the costs of facilities and breaks.

Location

The 14th SBML Forum was held as a satellite workshop of ICSB 2009 at Stanford University. The meeting room was in Jordan Hall (building #420) on the Stanford campus. Jordan Hall is located at the top of the main loop. The full address of the building is Jordan Hall, Building 420, Stanford, CA 94305.

The following maps show the buildings and parking facilities in the area:

• Google map locating Jordan Hall
• Parking map
• Interactive/annotated campus map

Stanford University was founded in 1885 and is consistently ranked as one of the top institutions in the USA and in the world. Locals and members of the university community are known to refer to the school as The Farm, a nod to the fact that the university is located on the former site of founder Leland Stanford's horse farm. The Wikipedia page for Stanford provides more information about the university and its history, and debunks some famous myths about its origins.

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