International Workshop on BioDesign Automation (IWBDA)

生物设计自动化国际研讨会（IWBDA）汇集了来自电子设计自动化和合成生物学的研究人员。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，其他场地没有积极地包括EDA社区，这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已于2009年、2010年、2011年和2012年与最大的EDA（设计自动化会议；DAC）同地成功举办。DAC将IWBDA的观众与EDA社区的10,000多名学术和工业参与者联系起来。今年，IWBDA将与BioBricks基金会合成生物学系列会议SB6.0共同举办，并将汇集来自合成生物学，系统生物学和设计自动化社区的研究人员。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。本次研讨会将提供12至15场技术讲座，4场邀请讲座，10至20张海报，并包括一个行业/学术小组会议。主题将包括：零件和标准化，生物电路模拟器，生物电路设计，合成生物学的CAD工具和基因网络重建。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，IWBDA将创建一个用户调查，用于更多地了解这样的研讨会如何更好地为社区服务。最后，本次会议还将有众多本科生、研究生和研究生研究人员出席。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。

The International Workshop on Bio-Design Automation (IWBDA) brings together researchers from electronic design automation and synthetic biology. 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 EDA community, which can bring a wide range of experiences, expertise, and perspectives to the design of novel biological systems. IWBDA has been held successfully in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012 when it was co-located with the largest conference for EDA (the Design Automation Conference; DAC). DAC connected the IWBDA audience to the EDA community of over 10,000 academic and industrial participants. This year, IWBDA will be co-located with the BioBricks Foundation Synthetic Biology Conference Series, SB6.0, and will bring together researchers from the synthetic biology, systems biology, and design automation communities. 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, four invited lectures, ten to twenty posters, and include an industry/academic panel session. 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, IWBDA will create a user survey which is used to learn more about how workshops like this can better serve the community. Finally, this conference will also have 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.