The Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats in systems biology, synthetic biology and related fields. HARMONY is a codefest-type meeting, with a focus on development of the standards, interoperability and infrastructure. There are generally not many general discussions or oral presentations during HARMONY; instead, the time is devoted to allowing hands-on hacking and interaction between people focused on practical development of software and standards.
HARMONY 2022 is going to be organized as a hybrid event with in-person and online participants. In particular:
- April 26 : Online lightning talks (EST afternoon)
- April 27-29 : in-person breakouts with online participants (8am to 5pm EST)
- April 30 : online breakouts (8am to 5pm EST)
This event is co-located with 2022 Synthetic Biology: Engineering, Evolution & Design (SEED).
Most of the day will be scheduled by the communities as breakouts. In addition, we will have some time each day for community discussion and wrap-ups of breakouts and advertisements for following breakouts.
Please see this Google Calendar for the live HARMONY 2022 Schedule. This calendar is only accessible to registered attendees. If you have difficulties accessing the calendar please contact the organisers.
Workshop Location Details
The site is the Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research (https://www.ibbr.umd.edu).
The address is 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850 (https://www.ibbr.umd.edu/about)
Attendees should park in the garage at 9621 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, Maryland 20850.
NIST will validate parking, so attendees don’t have to pay the $15/day fee.
Please enter through the double doors located to the right of the flag poles in front of the circular drive.
Registration for the meeting is open and is free. Please register at the link above as soon as possible. This will help us plan the schedule and match your interests to the timing of the breakouts, etc. Note, only registered attendees will be sent information related to video conferencing links, etc.
All attendees can suggest breakout sessions for hacking and/or detailed discussions of certain aspects of one or several of the COMBINE standard(s), metadata and semantic annotations (format-specific or overarching), application and implementations of the COMBINE standards, or any other topic relevant for the COMBINE community. The topics for those breakout sessions, and the time slots which would suit their communities can be submitted via the link above. Note, breakout session organisers will be responsible for creating and hosting their own online sessions.
Requests for a lightning talk (3 min max.) can be submitted via the link above. Please use several forms if you want to submit abstracts on different topics. The submission deadline is outlined above. Talks will take place during the community session.
Topics of Interest
- Data exchange, pipelines and model standards for systems and synthetic biology
- Visualization and graphical notation standards for systems and synthetic biology
- Standards for sharing and analysing biological pathway data
- Standards for computational biological models and modelling support
- Metadata description and model annotation in COMBINE standard formats
- Implementation of COMBINE standards in tools, databases and other resources
- Integrated model and data management for systems and synthetic biology
- Standardization of Artificial Intelligence approaches in biological modelling
- Emerging standardization needs and multicellular modeling
- Community aspects of COMBINE