Request for travel supplement: DAC Workshop on Modeling of Biological Systems (MoBS)

第一次生物系统建模研讨会（MoBS）侧重于生物系统建模和分析的计算方法和软件工具。它将汇集计算系统生物学和设计自动化社区的研究人员。MoBS的目标是创造一个环境，让不同类型的研究人员进行互动，并开始富有成效的合作。将MoBS与设计自动化会议（DAC）放在一起提供了实现这一目标的方法。对于生物学家来说，这次研讨会是一个向全新的观众展示他们工作的机会，并获得接触潜在博士后和研究生的新人才库的机会。对于电子设计自动化（EDA）专家来说，这次研讨会提供了一个很好的机会来探索生物学和医学研究中的挑战，并认识到他们熟悉的方法和技术的新合作和新应用的潜力。现有的系统生物学会议和会议并没有积极地包括EDA社区，EDA社区可以为新型生物系统的建模和分析带来广泛的经验、专业知识和观点。MoBS允许EDA社区与系统生物学的领导者进行互动并向他们学习。许多系统生物学的学术领袖都是MoBS的特邀演讲者。本次研讨会将提供15场技术讲座，其中4场主题演讲，5场邀请演讲，6场贡献演讲，以及10至15张海报。研讨会的主题多种多样，包括：生物网络推理，生物系统的CAD和可视化，生物和医疗保健系统的数据挖掘，生物系统模拟的混合方法，生物模型验证和验证，生物系统的敏感性分析等等。来自EDA和计算系统生物学的各种各样的研究人员聚集在一个独特的背景下，这是在其他会议上没有提供的。研讨会的幻灯片、海报和摘要将在研讨会网站上公布。最后，MoBS将有众多本科生、研究生和研究生研究人员出席。组委会鼓励和支持女性和少数族裔学生的参与，并计划了一个多样化的技术项目。

The First Workshop on Modeling of Biological Systems (MoBS) focuses on computational methods and software tools for modeling and analysis of biological systems. It will bring together researchers from computational systems biology and design automation communities. The goal of MoBS is to create an environment where different types of researchers interact and start fruitful collaborations. Co-locating MoBS with Design Automation Conference (DAC) provides means to fulfill this goal. For biologists, this workshop is an opportunity to showcase their work to an entirely new audience and gain exposure to a new talent pool of potential postdocs and graduate students. For electronic design automation (EDA) experts, this workshop provides an excellent opportunity to explore challenges in biology and medical research, and recognize potential for new collaborations and novel applications of methods and techniques they are familiar with. Existing systems biology conferences and meetings do not actively include the EDA community, which can bring a wide range of experiences, expertise, and perspectives to the modeling and analysis of novel biological systems. MoBS allow the EDA community to interact with and learn from leaders in systems biology. A number of academic leaders in systems biology are featured speakers of MoBS. This workshop will provide a venue for fifteen technical talks, among them four keynote talks, five invited lectures, and six contributed talks, as well as ten to fifteen posters. Topics of the workshop are diverse and include areas such as: biological network inference, CAD and visualization of biological systems, data-mining for bio and health-care systems, hybrid methods for bio-system simulation, bio-model validation and verification, sensitivity analysis for biological systems and much more. A wide variety of researchers from EDA and computational systems biology are brought together in a unique context, which is not provided at other conferences. The slides, posters, and abstracts from the workshop will be made public on the workshop website. Finally, MoBS will have numerous undergraduate, graduate and post graduate student researchers in attendance. The organizing committee encourages and supports woman and underrepresented minority student participation, and has planned a diverse technical program.