BioSharing at COMBINE meeting - Community Standards for Systems Biology

The 2nd COMBINE meeting was held on 2-7 September in gorgeous Heidelberg.

"The 'COmputational Modeling in BIology' NEtwork (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats for computational models, initially in Systems Biology and related fields. By doing so, it is expected that the federated projects will develop a set of interoperable and non-overlapping standards covering all the aspects of modeling in biology."

During the live streamed meeting, the core COMBINE community gave overview talks on the latest updates on the popular standards, SBML, SED-ML, BioPAX, SBGN and CellML. Brilliant keynote talks by Peer Bork (EMBL Heidelberg) and Michael White (University of Manchester) on their 20+ years of research in systems biology added to the memorability of the meeting.

A lecture on BioSharing was also given by Prof. Dawn Field, titled as "BioSharing: standards, policies and communication in bioscience".

All slides and posters are published in a Nature Precedings collection for COMBINE 2011.