ABI Workshop: COMBINE 2014 4 day Workshop and support for students, young scientists and SBGN members to attend the workshop at the Health Science Campus, USC, Los Angeles, CA.

生物网络计算建模(Combine)是一项旨在协调系统生物学及相关领域计算模型的各种社区标准和格式发展的倡议。联合研讨会的目标是允许研究人员参与各种途径标准工作(SBGN、SBML、BioPAX、CellML、SED-ML等)。收集和交流意见，报告进展，讨论标准之间的互操作性，并规划未来的协同发展。在讲习班的以往版本中，讨论了不同标准之间的数据整合和相互交换，并在不同的软件工具和路径/模型数据库中加以实施。作为该倡议中唯一的图形标准，SBGN(系统生物学图形符号)定义了生物路径和模型的可视表示标准。SBGN必须与其他标准互操作才能生效。联合研讨会的目标是将科学家和开发人员聚集在一起进行标准化工作，以协作和协同开发路径和模型标准。随着越来越多的实验数据、更好的高通量技术和越来越复杂的数据模型，计算机和软件已经彻底改变了生物科学研究的方式。协同工作的标准将改变生物学知识的交流方式，不仅在研究界之间，而且在人类和计算机之间。研讨会的演讲和演讲将在互联网上免费向公众和研究人员提供。

The COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats for computational models, in Systems Biology and related fields. The COMBINE Workshop goals are to allow researchers in various pathway standard efforts (SBGN, SBML, BioPAX, CellML, SED-ML, etc.) to gather and exchange ideas, report progress, discuss interoperability between standards, and plan for future synergistic development. In past versions of the workshop, integration and inter-exchange of data between different standards have been discussed and implemented in different software tools and pathway/model databases. As the only graphical standard in the initiative, SBGN (Systems Biology Graphical Notation) defines a standard for visual representation of biological pathways and models. SBGN must be interoperable with the other standards to be effective.The goal of COMBINE workshop is to bring scientists and developers in the standardizing efforts together for collaborative and synergistic development of pathway and model standards. With an ever growing amount of experimental data, better high-throughput technologies, and increasingly complex data models, computer and software have revolutionized the way bioscience research is conducted. Standards that work together cohesively will transform the way biological knowledge is communicated, not only among the research community, but also between humans and computers. The workshop talks and presentations will be freely available on the internet to the public and researchers.