The 1st Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology

California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
April 28–29, 2000

The inaugural workshop was held at Caltech in the spring of 2000. The invitation-based meeting involved the original collaborating groups gathered together by Hamid Bolouri, John Doyle and Hiroaki Kitano for the purpose of working towards a common software framework for systems biology. It was at this meeting that the idea of an SBML-like language was first proposed, and where the beginnings of the Systems Biology Workbench (SBW) were born.

We thank the generous sponsors for financial support of the meeting:

• ERATO Kitano Systems Biology Project
• California Institute of Technology

Steering Committee for the First Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology (SPSB2000):

• Adam Arkin
• Hamid Bolouri
• Eric Mjolsness
• Hiroaki Kitano