Thursday, May 3, 2007

Welcome and Introductions

• Fred Heineken, NSF
• Martha Steinbock, USDA
• Søren Brunak, for the European Commission

Experimental Tools (Chair: Michael Ashburner)

• Mathias Uhlen: “A human protein atlas”
• Stefan Hohmann: “Measurements for dynamic modeling”
• Michael Ashburner: “Ontologies for data integration”

Databases (Chair: Rolf Apweiler)

• Rolf Apweiler: “Enabling systems biology: development and implementation of proteomics standards and services”
• Janet Thorton: “Towards a European bioinformatics infrastructure in the international context”
• Alfonso Valencia: “The Biosapiens NoE experience in high-throughput genome annotation and the ENCODE pilot project case story”

Modeling Applications (Chair: Pamela Silver)

• Pamela Silver: “Can we design biological systems in a predictable manner?”
• Frank Doyle: “Modeling and analysis challenges in biology: from genes to cells to systems”
• Marcus Covert: “Model-driven discovery” 

Software Infrastructure (Chair: Mike Hucka)

• Mike Hucka: “Standardization efforts for computational modeling in biology”
• Gary Bader: “Pathway Commons: a public library of biological pathways”
• Douglas Kell: “Loosely coupled bioinformatics workflows for systems biology”

Friday, May 4, 2007