This year's COMBINE took place in cooperation with the Stuttgart Cluster of Excellence EXC2075 “Data-Integrated Simulation Science (SimTech)”. The COMBINE consortium is an initiative to coordinate the development of community standards and formats for computer models in biology and medicine. The conference is aimed at scientists at all career levels who are interested in the use and development of these standards and provides a platform for exchange and discussion as well as interactive experimentation and learning. We had numerous international keynote speakers on site:
- Irina Balaur, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2. Dirk Drasdo, Director of Research INRIA (French National Institut(ion) for
3. Research in Computer Science and Control), Rocquencourt, France
4. Fabian Fröhlich, Francis Crick Institute, United Kingdom
5. Marc-Thorsten Hütt, Constructor University Bremen, Germany
6. Matthias König, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
7. Heinz Köppl, TU Darmstadt, Germany
8. Göksel Misirli, Keele University, United Kingdom
9. David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, University of Auckland, New Zealand
10. Jürgen Pleiss, Institute for Biochemistry and Technical Biochemistry, University of Stuttgart, Germany
11. Herbert Sauro, University of Washington, USA
12. Lucian Smith, University of Washington, USA
13. Benjamin Uekermann, Institute for Parallel and Distributed Systems, University of Stuttgart, Germany
14. Judith Wodke, University Medicine Greifswald, Germany
The response was great, with around 65 participants engaging in lively discussions about standard formats for data and models and the latest developments in data collection and model analysis after the presentations and during the numerous breakout sessions.
In the SimTech session, we presented exemplary work in our cluster and thus got into conversation with the other participants about EnzymeML, the model coupling software preCICE and reproducibility for stochastic models and statistical methods. All in all, it was a very successful event, for which we would like to thank the German Research Foundation (DFG) via the 'International scientific events' funding line, SimTech and the Stuttgart Center for Systems Biology (SRCSB), whose support made this exchange format possible.
