NSF Student Travel Grant for 2018 Hackathons on Resources for Modeling in Biology (HARMONY); Workshop-June 18-22, 2018; Oxford UK

该奖项的目的是支持学生参加由牛津大学于6月18日至22日在英国牛津举办的HARMONY 2018的旅费。这次讲习班有助于在制定合成生物学标准方面取得进展。目前，大多数标准化工作要么没有资金支持，要么只有非常有限的支持。这些标准的成功取决于许多人贡献时间参与讨论、编写规范、担任标准编辑和参加研讨会。许多从事标准开发的人都是美国的学生，他们会发现很难找到参加这次会议的资金。因此，该奖项有助于支持在美国从事系统和合成生物学标准工作的学生的旅行、住宿和注册费。这不仅对这些参与者来说是一个宝贵的经验，而且还将极大地增强COMBINE的目标，即把合成生物学的研究人员与系统生物学的研究人员聚集在一起，从而形成集成的标准和共享的软件和基础设施。数据交换标准对任何领域的发展都至关重要，因为它们使研究人员和从业人员能够可靠地交换信息，应用各种工具解决问题，并重现科学结果。生物学计算建模网络（COMBINE）创建于2010年，旨在组织系统生物学的标准化工作。HARMONY研讨会由COMBINE组织，将于2018年6月18日至22日在英国牛津大学举行。这次讲习班的主要目标是：(a)发展系统和合成生物学研究人员之间的协同关系。(b)将系统和合成生物学的标准发展更紧密地结合起来。(c)与建模人员和实验人员进行接触。(d)作出协调一致的努力，提倡在出版物和档案数据库中使用标准。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The purpose of this award is to support travel expenses for students to attend HARMONY 2018 to be hosted by University of Oxford in Oxford, UK from June 18th to 22nd. This workshop is instrumental in making progress in the development of standards in synthetic biology. Currently, most standardization efforts are either unfunded or only have very limited support. The success of these standards hinges on the donation of time from many individuals to participate in discussions, write specifications, serve as standards editors, and attend workshops. Many of these individuals working on the development of standards are students based in the US who would find it difficult to find the funds to attend this meeting. Therefore, this award helps support travel, lodging, and registration expenses for US based students working on systems and synthetic biology standards. Not only would this be a valuable experience for these participants, but it would also greatly enhance the COMBINE goal of bringing together researchers in synthetic biology with those working in systems biology leading to integrated standards and shared software and infrastructure.Standards for data exchange are critical to the development of any field since 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. The HARMONY workshop is organized by COMBINE and will be held at the University of Oxford in the UK, from June 18th to 22nd 2018. The major goals of this workshop will be: (a) Develop synergistic relationships between systems and synthetic biology researchers. (b) Produce a tighter integration of standard development for systems and synthetic biology. (c) Engage in outreach to modelers and experimentalists. (d) Develop a coordinated effort to advocate the use of standards in publications and archival databases.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.