Support for COMBINE 2016

支持 COMBINE 2016

• 批准号: 1637381
• 负责人: Chris Myers
• 金额: $ 1.5万
• 依托单位: University of Utah
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-06-01 至 2018-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1637381&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Support; COMBINE; 2016

Standards for data exchange are critical to the development of any field. They enable researchers and practitioners to exchange information reliably, apply a variety of tools to their problems, and reproduce scientific results. The COmputational MOdeling in Biology NEtwork (COMBINE) was created in 2010 to organize standardization efforts for systems biology. This effort includes, among others, the systems biology markup language (SBML) for mathematical modeling; the biological pathways exchange language (BioPaX) for describing pathways; the systems biology graphical notation (SBGN) for visual representations; and the synthetic biology open language (SBOL). The purpose of this grant is to support travel expenses for students, postdoctoral scholars, and participants from underrepresented groups to attend COMBINE 2016 to be hosted by Newcastle University in Newcastle, UK from September 19th to 23rd, 2016 (http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2016). This workshop will not only be a valuable educational experience for the student participants, but it will also provide them a valuable opportunity to interact with international researchers. Since this event will be held in the United Kingdom and will bring researchers from all over the world (the last one held in Salt Lake City, UT had representatives from six continents), this meeting will enhance and foster new international collaborations in the area of standards for data representation and exchange in biology. The United Kingdom has been a leader in systems and synthetic biology research and standard development. In particular, the UK government has identified synthetic biology as a national strategic research area (funding it with over £50m to date, https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/synthetic-biology-leadership-council) and has produced a Synthetic Biology Roadmap for the UK (http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/publications/reports/syntheticbiologyroadmap/). In fact, it can be argued that the US and UK have the largest research programs in these areas. Collaborations between these two countries in this area are essential to success. The UK's Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) and NSF have very recently initiated a joint funding effort that in particular includes synthetic biology (http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/filter/nsfbio-lead-agency-pilot/). Indeed, it is crucial that the standards developed are not US or UK standards, but truly world data representation standards. 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 doctoral students can attend the conference to present research, learn more about the field, and expand their networking opportunities.

数据交换标准对任何领域的发展都至关重要。它们使研究人员和从业者能够可靠地交换信息，应用各种工具来解决他们的问题，并复制科学结果。生物网络中的计算建模(COMBINE)创建于2010年，旨在组织系统生物学的标准化工作。除其他外，这项工作包括用于数学建模的系统生物学标记语言(SBML)；用于描述途径的生物途径交换语言(BioPaX)；用于可视化表示的系统生物学图形符号(SBGN)；以及合成生物学开放语言(SBOL)。这笔赠款的目的是支持学生、博士后学者和来自代表性不足群体的参与者参加由英国纽卡斯尔纽卡斯尔大学于2016年9月19日至23日主办的联合2016(http://co.mbine.org/events/COMBINE_2016).这次工作坊不仅将为学员提供宝贵的教育经验，也将为他们提供与国际研究人员互动的宝贵机会。由于这次会议将在英国举行，并将汇集来自世界各地的研究人员(上一次在德克萨斯州盐湖城举行的会议有来自六大洲的代表)，因此这次会议将加强和促进生物学数据表示和交换标准领域的新的国际合作。英国在系统和合成生物学研究和标准开发方面一直处于领先地位。特别是，英国政府已将合成生物学确定为国家战略研究领域(迄今已为其提供超过5000万GB的资金，https://www.gov.uk/government/groups/synthetic-biology-leadership-council))，并为英国(http://www.rcuk.ac.uk/publications/reports/syntheticbiologyroadmap/).制定了合成生物学路线图事实上，可以说美国和英国在这些领域拥有最大的研究项目。这两个国家在这一领域的合作对成功至关重要。英国生物技术和生物科学研究理事会和国家科学基金会最近发起了一项联合资助努力，其中特别包括合成生物学(http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/funding/filter/nsfbio-lead-agency-pilot/).事实上，制定的标准不是美国或英国的标准，而是真正的世界数据表示标准，这一点至关重要。NSF的支持(感谢计算机信息科学与工程总局和国际科学与工程办公室提供的资金)确保了一批技术和多样化的本科生、研究生和博士后可以参加会议，介绍研究，了解该领域的更多知识，并扩大他们的网络机会。