International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA)

2016年第八届生物设计自动化国际研讨会（IWBDA）将汇集来自电子设计自动化（使用计算机软件构建复杂电子产品的实践）和合成生物学（使用工程原理的新型生物系统的正向设计）的研究人员。IWBDA的目标是使生物学更容易、更健壮、更可靠、更可预测，从而解决生物学和医学方面的挑战，从而在疾病诊断、治疗和预防方面取得进展。现有的合成生物学会议和会议并没有明确地关注于弥合实验家和计算研究人员工作之间的差距。弥合这一鸿沟对于合成生物学领域实现其前景至关重要。此外，其他场地并不积极包括电子设计自动化（EDA）社区，该社区可以为新型生物系统的设计带来广泛的经验，专业知识和观点。IWBDA包括主题演讲和邀请演讲、教程、海报会议、小组讨论以及专门的非正式讨论时间。这个研讨会的智力价值是一个关键的优势。该研讨会将在两天内提供12至15场技术会谈的场地。这些谈话摘自后来存档的两页扩展摘要。此外，还将有两场特邀讲座，十到二十张海报，多个小组讨论，以及一个特色的学生编程比赛（BDAthlon）。技术主题将多种多样，包括零件和标准化、生物电路模拟器、生物电路设计、合成生物学CAD工具和基因网络重建等领域。在合成生物学/EDA中没有其他这样的讲习班。IWBDA的广泛影响是多方面的。来自EDA和合成生物学的各种各样的研究人员（120+）将在一个独特的环境中聚集在一起，这在其他地方是不存在的。IWBDA将收集并公开会议的幻灯片、海报和摘要。此外，还将创建一个用户调查，以更多地了解这样的研讨会如何更好地为社区服务。最后，将有许多本科生，研究生和研究生的研究人员出席。IWBDA鼓励和支持妇女和少数族裔学生的参与，并拥有多样化的技术项目和执行委员会。为了保持其建立国际合作和研究努力的目标，IWBDA 2016将在英国纽卡斯尔大学举行。联席主席是纽卡斯尔大学的Anil Wipat教授和剑桥大学的Pietro Lio教授。项目主席是来自爱丁堡大学的Chris French教授。主讲人是纽卡斯尔大学的Natalio Krasnogor教授。我们希望纽卡斯尔、剑桥、帝国理工学院和爱丁堡大学（以及其他英国大学）都能派遣研究生到主要研究者水平的参与者。NSF的支持（感谢计算机信息科学与工程理事会和国际科学与工程办公室提供的资金）确保了技术和多样化的本科生，研究生和博士后学生可以参加会议，展示研究成果，了解更多有关该领域的信息，并扩大他们的交流机会。

The 8th International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) 2016 will bring together researchers from electronic design automation (the practice of using computer software to build complex electronics) and synthetic biology (the forward design of novel biological systems using engineering principles). The goal of IWBDA is to make biology more easily, robustly, reliably, and predictably engineered and therefore, tackle challenges in biology and medicine, leading to advances in disease diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Existing synthetic biology conferences and meetings do not explicitly focus on bridging the gap between the work of experimentalists and computational researchers. Bridging this divide is essential for the field of synthetic biology to fulfill its promise. Furthermore, other venues do not actively include the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) community, which can bring a wide range of experiences, expertise, and perspectives to the design of novel biological systems. IWBDA includes keynote and invited talks, tutorials, poster sessions, panel discussions, as well as dedicated time for informal discussions. The intellectual merit of this workshop is a key strength. This workshop will provide a venue for between twelve and fifteen technical talks over two days. These talks are chosen from two page extended abstracts which are later archived. In addition, there will be two invited lectures, ten to twenty posters, multiple group discussion sessions, and a featured student programming competition (BDAthlon). Technical topics will be diverse and include areas such as: Parts and Standardization, Biological Circuit Simulators, Biological Circuit Design, CAD Tools for Synthetic Biology and Gene Network Reconstruction. No other such workshop exists in Synthetic Biology/EDA. The broader impacts of IWBDA are numerous. A wide variety of researchers (120+) from EDA and synthetic biology will be brought together in a unique context which does not exist elsewhere. IWBDA will capture and make public the slides, posters, and abstracts from the session. In addition, a user survey will be created to learn more about how workshops like this can better serve the community. Finally, there will be numerous undergraduate, graduate and post graduate student researchers in attendance. IWBDA encourages and supports woman and underrepresented minority student participation and has a diverse technical program and executive committees.In keeping with its goal of establishing international collaborations and research efforts, IWBDA 2016 will take place at Newcastle University in England. The co-general chairs are Prof. Anil Wipat from Newcastle and Prof. Pietro Lio' from Cambridge. The program chair is Prof. Chris French from the University of Edinburgh. A keynote speaker is Prof. Natalio Krasnogor from Newcastle University. We expect Newcastle, Cambridge, Imperial College, and the University of Edinburgh (among other UK based universities) all to send participants at the graduate to principle investigator level. NSF support (Funding provided from the Directorate of Computer Information Science and Engineering and the Office of International Science and Engineering is gratefully acknowledged) ensures a technical and diverse set of undergraduate, graduate, and post doctorial students can attend the conference to present research, learn more about the field, and expand their networking opportunities.