HARMONY 2013

描述（由申请人提供）：此资助申请旨在帮助那些正在开发计算系统生物学新兴社区标准的研究人员前往R。D.位于CT法明顿的柏林细胞分析和建模中心，该中心将主办2013年生物学建模资源黑客会议（HARMONY）。重点是生物建模和数据分析中使用的四种核心社区接受的语言，标准和本体（SBML，BioPAX，SBGN和SED-ML），其用户和开发人员社区已加入生物学计算建模网络（联合收割机）的一部分。会议的主要目的是提高格式之间的互操作性，并启动努力，以解决新确定的未满足的需求或覆盖面的关键差距。和谐会议已成为一个宝贵的场所，通过面对面的会议和实地领导人的亲身参与，讨论了具体的高度优先问题，并为明显的绊脚石制定了新的解决办法。会议将汇集领先的科学家和软件开发人员，生物建模，生物信息学和计算机科学专家，他们积极参与标准和/或软件工具和使用它们的存储库的开发。会议的很大一部分将由工作组的编程马拉松式平行轨道组成，其任务是 解决具体问题，并产生可交付成果，如规范草案和/或原型实施。我们希望强调，联合收割机网络不同团体的大多数领导成员都是志愿者，没有专门用于这项活动的资金，但这项活动对科学界至关重要。重要的是，尽可能多的这些研究人员出席和谐会议。我们正在努力将出席会议的费用保持在最低限度，我们将能够在不收取任何登记费的情况下组织会议。然而，没有提供支助来直接支付与会者的旅费，而旅费往往弥补了出席有全球听众的会议的大部分财政负担。因此，我们请求提供资金，以部分支付一些主要与会者的旅费。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): This grant application is designed to help the researchers who have been developing emerging community standards in computational systems biology to travel to the R. D. Berlin Center for Cell Analysis and Modeling in Farmington, CT, which will host the Hackathon on Resources in Modeling in Biology (HARMONY) 2013 meeting. The focus is on four core community-accepted languages, standards and ontologies used in biological modeling and data analysis (SBML, BioPAX, SBGN, and SED-ML), whose communities of users and developers have joined forces as part of the Computational Modeling in Biology network (COMBINE). The main purpose of the conference is to improve interoperability between formats and to jump-start efforts to address newly identified unmet needs or critical gaps in coverage. The HARMONY meetings have emerged as an invaluable venue for hashing out concrete high priority issues and devise new solutions for apparent stumbling blocks, with face-to-face meetings and hands-on participation of leaders in the field. The conference will bring together leading scientists and software developers, experts in biological modeling, bioinformatics and computer science, who are actively involved in the development of standards and/or the software tools and repositories that use them. A large part of the meeting will consist of hackathon-style parallel tracks of working groups that are tasked to address concrete problems and to produce deliverables such as draft specifications and/or prototype implementations. We wish to emphasize that most of the leading members of the different groups of the COMBINE network serve as volunteers and do not have dedicated funding for this activity, which is nonetheless crucial to the scientific community. It is importan that as many as possible of these researchers are present at the HARMONY conference. We are striving to maintain the cost of attending to a minimum and we will be able to organize the meeting without charging any registration fee. However, no support is available to directly defray the costs of travel for participants, which often does make up for most of the financial burden to attend meetings that have a global audience. We are therefore requesting funds to partially defray the travel costs for some of the key participants to the conference.