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BioModels Meeting 2009

The Fourth BioModels Meeting was held from March 28 to 30, 2009, at the EMBL-EBI in Cambridge (United Kingdom). The annual BioModels meeting is a gathering of BioModels resources developers and curators, users, developers of third-party tools, and people who would like to know more about them. The meeting will feature presentations from various attendees, demos of the new features of BioModels resources, tutorials, and discussion sessions. This event followed the 7^th SBML Hackathon, which was also held at the EBI.

The theme of this meeting is: Data integration for Systems Biology, and there was an emphasis on annotation of models, and how to use them to enhance the semantics models and improve their exchange, processing and analysis.

Photo album

A Photo album was created by Mike Hucka, click on any photo below to access the whole album.

Meeting information

The agenda of the meeting is available. [updated link]

BioModels annual meetings mainly cover (but not exclusively) the following resources:

BioModels Database, a data resource that allows scientists to store, search and retrieve published mathematical models of biological interests. Models present in BioModels Database are verified and annotated and linked to relevant data resources, such as publications, databases of compounds and pathways, controlled vocabularies, etc.

The Systems Biology Ontology, a set of controlled vocabularies tailored specifically for the kinds of problems being faced in systems biology, especially in the context of computational modeling.

MIRIAM, an effort to standardize the "Minimal Information Requested In the Annotation of biochemical Models". This allows different groups to collaborate on annotating and curating computational models in biology.

Participants

Here is the list of attendees.

Name	Organisation	Project
Richard Adams	University of Edinburgh, UK	SBSI, EPE
Frank Bergmann	University of Washington, USA	SBW
Vijayalakshmi Chelliah	EMBL-EBI, UK	BioModels Database
Lukas Endler	EMBL-EBI, UK	BioModels Database
Ralph Gauges	Universität Heidelberg, Germany	COPASI
Martin Golebiewski	EML Research, Germany	SABIO-RK
Michael Hucka	Caltech, USA	SBML, BioModels.net
Nick Juty	EMBL-EBI, UK	MIRIAM, SBO
Sarah Keating	Caltech, USA	SBML
Christian Knuepfer	Universität Jena, Germany	TEDDY
Falko Krause	Humboldt-Universität, Germany	semanticSBML
Camille Laibe	EMBL-EBI, UK	MIRIAM, SBO
Nicolas Le Novère	EMBL-EBI, UK	SBML, BioModels Database, MIRIAM, SBO, BioModels.net
Chen Li	EMBL-EBI, UK	BioModels Database
Wolfram Liebermeister	Humboldt-Universität, Germany	semanticSBML
Allyson Lister	University of Newcastle, UK	SAINT
Catherine Lloyd	Auckland Bioengineering Institute, New Zealand	CellML
Timo Lubitz	Humboldt-Universität, Germany	semanticSBML
Ion Moraru	University of Connecticut Health Center, USA	VCell
Chris Myers	University of Utah, USA	iBioSim
Brett Olivier	VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands	PySCeS
Nicolas Rodriguez	EMBL-EBI, UK	BioModels Database
Sven Sahle	Universität Heidelberg, Germany	COPASI
Maria J Schilstra	University of Hertfordshire, UK	NetBuilder
Evangelos Simeonidis	University of Manchester, UK	MCISB
Lucian Smith	University of Washington, USA	Antimony
Jacky Snoep	Stellenbosch, South Africa	JWS Online
Neil Swainston	University of Manchester, UK	MCISB
Alice Villéger	University of Manchester, UK	Arcadia
Judith Wodke	CRG Barcelona, Spain / Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany	CSBG

: travel costs sponsored by ENFIN.

Travel information

Because of the large number of attendees, arriving at different airports and at wildly varying times, attendees will need to make their own way to Cambridge.

One option may be to use National Express coaches. They provide a regular (hourly) service between the airports (Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted) and Cambridge (Parkside street). In order to reach the Arundel House Hotel from Parkside street, follow these directions.

The alternative way is to use the train (http://www.nationalrail.co.uk/) to Cambridge, but note that this will probably entail some changes. In order to reach the Arundel House Hotel from the train station, follow these directions.

If you plan making your own way to the meeting, directions to Wellcome Trust Genome Campus can be found here and there. Taxis from local railway stations (Whittlesford and Great Chesterford) to the Genome Campus costs between 10 and 20 pounds. From Stansted airport, it costs around 30 pounds. Taxis accept cash only.

All attendees will reside at the Arundel House Hotel. A coach will leave the hotel each morning (25th-30th March) at 8am to reach the EBI by 8:30am. Security on the Campus entrance should direct you to the 'taxi bay' immediately outside the EBI. On the first day, we will provide you with a name badge which you should wear for the whole duration of your stay. A coach will also be provided each evening, to come back to the hotel.

If you have already made arrangements to have your travel costs reimbursed, please ensure you retain all your receipts.