An important aspect of SBML development is face-to-face meetings, where developers, researchers and other interested persons meet each other and discuss their experiences and ongoing work.
COMBINE and HARMONY (from 2010 onward)
The COmputational Modeling in BIology NEtwork (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of standards and formats for computational models in biology. It was established in 2010, and since that time, almost all SBML face-to-face meetings have occurred in the context of COMBINE. There are two flavors of COMBINE events: Forum meetings focus on general presentations and discussions about methods and software relevant to systems biology, while Hackathons are codefest-type events bringing software developers together to work on interoperability of software and standards.
| Date(s) | Event | Event type | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr. 26–30, 2022 | HARMONY 2022 | Hackathon | Hybrid: Washington, DC, USA and Virtual |
| Oct. 11–15, 2021 | COMBINE 2021 | Forum | Virtual |
| Mar. 22–26, 2021 | HARMONY 2021 | Hackathon | Virtual |
| Oct. 5–9, 2020 | COMBINE 2020 | Forum | Virtual |
| Mar. 9–13, 2020 | HARMONY 2020 | Hackathon | EMBL-EBI, Cambridgeshire, UK |
| Jul. 15–19, 2019 | COMBINE 2019 | Forum | Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, DE |
| Mar. 25–29, 2019 | HARMONY 2019 | Hackathon | Caltech, Pasadena, CA, US |
| Oct. 8–12, 2018 | COMBINE 2018 | Forum | Boston University, Boston, MA, US |
| Jun. 18–22, 2018 | HARMONY 2018 | Hackathon | Oxford University, UK |
| Oct. 9–13, 2017 | COMBINE 2017 | Forum | UNIMIB International, Milan, IT |
| Jun. 26–30, 2017 | HARMONY 2017 | Hackathon | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US |
| Sep. 19–24, 2016 | COMBINE 2016 | Forum | Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK |
| Jun. 7–11, 2016 | HARMONY 2016 | Hackathon | University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ |
| Oct. 12–16, 2015 | COMBINE 2015 | Forum | University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, US |
| Apr. 20–24, 2015 | HARMONY 2015 | Hackathon | Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Wittenberg, DE |
| Aug. 18–22, 2014 | COMBINE 2014 | Forum | University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, US |
| Apr. 22–25, 2014 | HARMONY 2014 | Hackathon | University of Manchester, Manchester, UK |
| Sep. 16–20, 2013 | COMBINE 2013 | Forum | Institut Curie, Paris, FR |
| May 20–23, 2013 | HARMONY 2013 | Hackathon | University of Connecticut Health Center, CT, US |
| Aug. 15–19, 2012 | COMBINE 2012 | Forum | University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, CA |
| May 21–25, 2012 | HARMONY 2012 | Hackathon | Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL |
| Sep. 3–7, 2011 | COMBINE 2011 | Forum | Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies, Heidelberg, DE |
| Apr. 18–22, 2011 | HARMONY 2011 | Hackathon | Computational Biology Center at MSKCC, NYC, NY, US |
| Oct. 6–9, 2010 | COMBINE 2010 | Forum | Informatics Forum, University of Edinburgh, UK |
Previous meetings and special events (2000–2011)
Prior to the establishment of COMBINE, the SBML community had its own series of biannual events: SBML Forum Meetings were the annual working meetings of the SBML community and provided an opportunity to discuss SBML, its continued evolution, and software efforts to support SBML, while SBML Hackathons brought together developers to discuss software interoperability of SBML-aware software. The community also organized occasional special workshops aimed at pushing forward the development of specific SBML features, as well as a 2008 “super-hackathon” that was a precursor of COMBINE. And going back even further in time, the ERATO Kitano Symbotic Systems Project that produced SBML organized a series of workshops known as the Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology, before this series was split and renamed into the SBML Forum and SBML Hackathon meetings.
| Date(s) | Event | Location |
|---|---|---|
| Jun. 20–22, 2011 | Statistical models workshop | Special |
| Oct. 9, 2010 | SBML 10th Anniversary Symposium | U. Edinburgh School of Informatics, Edinburgh, UK |
| May 19–21, 2010 | Annotations package workshop 2010 | Videoconference with locations at EBI, U. Rostock, and others |
| May 17–18, 2010 | SBML-NeuroML interfacing mini-workshop | EBI, Hinxton, UK |
| May. 1–4, 2010 | 2010 SBML-BioModels.net Hackathon | University of Washington, Seattle, WA, US |
| Sep. 3–4, 2009 | 14th SBML Forum Meeting | Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US |
| Mar. 26–28, 2009 | Seventh SBML Hackathon | European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK |
| Aug. 27–28, 2008 | 13th SBML Forum Meeting | Wallenberg Conference Center, Göteborg, SE |
| Aug. 12–13, 2008 | Alternative modeling frameworks 2008 | Videoconference with locations at EBI, U. Rostock, and SIB |
| Apr. 6–8, 2008 | Sixth SBML Hackathon | Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, ZA |
| Jan. 28–Feb. 2, 2008 | Super-hackathon on standards and ontologies for systems biology | Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, JP |
| Dec. 6–7, 2007 | SBML Multicomponent & Multistate Workshop 2007 | Videoconference with locations at EBI, UCHC, U. Pittsburgh, and Virginia Tech |
| Oct. 5–6, 2007 | 12th SBML Forum Meeting | Long Beach Convention Center, Long Beach, CA, US |
| Sep. 9–10, 2007 | SBML Composition Workshop 2007 | Videoconference with locations at UCHC, EBI, and Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics |
| Jun. 7–8, 2007 | Fifth SBML Hackathon | University of Newcastle, Newcastle, UK |
| Oct. 12–13, 2006 | 11th SBML Forum Meeting | National Museum of Emerging Science and Technology, Tokyo, JP |
| Apr. 7–8, 2006 | Fourth SBML Hackathon | The Chateau at Nové Hrady, Nové Hrady, CZ |
| Oct. 23–24, 2005 | 10th SBML Forum Meeting | Conference Center at Harvard Medical, Boston, MA, US |
| May 9–10, 2005 | Third SBML Hackathon | National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation, Tokyo, JP |
| Oct. 14–15, 2004 | 9th SBML Forum Meeting | NH Heidelberg Hotel, Heidelberg, DE |
| Apr. 30–May 1, 2004 | Second SBML Hackathon | European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK |
| Nov. 10, 2003 | 8th SBML Forum Meeting | Chase Park Plaza Hotel, St. Louis, Missouri, US |
| Jul. 29–30, 2003 | First SBML Hackathon | Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Blacksburg, VA, US |
| May 11–12, 2003 | 7th SBML Forum Meeting | Sheraton Ft. Lauderdale Airport, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, US |
| Dec. 12, 2002 | 6th SBML Forum Meeting | Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, SE |
| Jul. 8–9, 2002 | 5th Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology | University of Hertfordshire, Hertfordshire, UK |
| Dec. 9, 2001 | 4th Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, US |
| Jun. 1–2, 2001 | 3rd Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, US |
| Nov. 14, 2000 | 2nd Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology | Royal Park Hotel, Tokyo, JP |
| Apr. 28–29, 2000 | 1st Workshop on Software Platforms for Systems Biology | California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, US |