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.

生物学网络中的计算建模（联合收割机）是一项旨在协调系统生物学及相关领域中计算模型的各种社区标准和格式的发展的倡议。联合收割机研讨会的目标是让研究人员在各种途径标准的努力（SBGN，SBML，BioPAX，CellML，SED-ML等）。收集和交换意见，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。在以往的研讨会中，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途径/模型数据库中实施。SBGN（Systems Biology Graphical Notation，系统生物学图形表示法）作为该计划中唯一的图形标准，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。联合收割机研讨会的目标是将科学家和开发人员聚集在标准化工作中，共同协作和协同开发路径和模型标准。随着实验数据量的不断增长，更好的高通量技术和日益复杂的数据模型，计算机和软件已经彻底改变了生物科学研究的方式。标准的协同工作将改变生物学知识的交流方式，不仅在研究界，而且在人类和计算机之间。研讨会的演讲和介绍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.