[Biomodels-net-discuss] REMINDER: Registration to COMBINE2010

[Nicolas Le n. <le...@eb...>]

Announcing the:

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Dear Colleague,

We are pleased to announce COMBINE 2010, that will take place at the
Informatics Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Oct. 6–9, 2010.

With COMBINE 2010, we are inaugurating a new, broader series of meetings to
replace, among other events, the SBML and SBGN Fora or the BioPAX face to
face meetings. 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 joined meeting
makes good economic sense: compared to multiple separate workshops, they
reduce the overall number of meetings, travel, and money spent. To reflect
this broad scope, we are calling the new workshop series ''COMBINE'':

COMBINE: the COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork

This first meeting will feature sessions about the following efforts:
BioPAX, CellML, SBGN, SBML and SED-ML. In addition, sessions will be
dedicated to interconversion (how to generate one format from another) and
interoperability (i.e. how to make the formats work together). A more
detailed agenda will be announced later. The activities at COMBINE will be
similar to typical workshops, with oral and poster presentations, break-out
discussions, and more.

You can find a webpage describing the meeting at

http://sbml.org/Events/Forums/COMBINE_2010

(sbml.org being a temporary location before setting up an independent 
website for the COMBINE and HARMONY meetings.).

In order to be able to tune the agenda of COMBINE and satisfy the largest
number of attendees, we need you to register *as soon as possible* at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/9GP9KJ3

The organizers:

     * Nadia Anwar, Sloan Kettering Institute
     * Emek Demir, Sloan Kettering Institute
     * Michael Hucka, California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
     * Camille Laibe, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
     * Nicolas Le Novère, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
     * Catherine Lloyd, Auckland Bioengineering Institute
     * Stuart Moodie, University of Edinburgh
     * Anatoly Sorokin, University of Edinburgh