HARMONY 2021
Dates: 22 - 26 March 2021
Location: Online (virtual) meeting
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 2021 will be an online only meeting similar to COMBINE 2020 (http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2020). 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.
Important dates
Breakout submission deadline: 23rd Feb 2021
Lightning talk submission deadline: 23rd Feb 2021
Notification of acceptance of breakouts: 1st March 2021
HARMONY Workshop: 22-26th March 2021
Registration
Registration for the meeting is open and is free. Please register at the link below 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.
Registration form: https://forms.gle/U6SHJyowQnwJ7fmb8
Call for Breakout Sessions
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 at the link below. Note: breakout session organisers will be responsible for creating and hosting their own online sessions.
Breakout proposals: https://forms.gle/J13diBX6iipx4w8E9
Call for Lightning Talks
Requests for a lightning talk (3 min max.) can be submitted via the form below. 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.
Lightning talk submission: https://forms.gle/z1kzkN2NNaN9JzMM6
Topics of Interest
Topics of interest for the meeting include, but are not limited to:
- 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
Organisers
The COMBINE 2020 virtual meeting is organised by the COMBINE coordinators (see the list).
Contact for scientific organization: Combine Coordinators.