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.

生物学计算建模网络（COMBINE）是一项倡议，旨在协调系统生物学和相关领域计算模型的各种社区标准和格式的发展。COMBINE研讨会的目标是让各种途径标准（SBGN、SBML、BioPAX、CellML、sd - ml等）的研究人员聚集在一起，交换意见，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。在过去的研讨会中，不同标准之间的数据集成和相互交换已经在不同的软件工具和路径/模型数据库中进行了讨论和实现。作为该计划中唯一的图形标准，SBGN（系统生物学图形表示法）定义了生物途径和模型的可视化表示标准。SBGN必须与其他标准互操作才能有效。COMBINE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，以协作和协同地开发途径和模型标准。随着实验数据量的不断增长，高通量技术的不断提高，数据模型的日益复杂，计算机和软件已经彻底改变了生物科学研究的进行方式。协同工作的标准将改变生物知识的传播方式，不仅在研究界之间，而且在人与计算机之间。研讨会的演讲和报告将在互联网上免费提供给公众和研究人员。

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.