The Computational Modeling in Biology Network (COMBINE) is an initiative to coordinate the development of the various community standards and formats in systems biology, synthetic biology, and related fields.

HARMONY is a codefest-type meeting, with a focus on the development of standards, interoperability, and infrastructure. There are generally not many general discussions or oral presentations during HARMONY; instead, the time is devoted to allowing hands-on hacking and interaction between people focused on the practical development of software and standards.

HARMONY 2023 was hosted by Herbert Sauro and the Center for Reproducible Biomedical Modeling at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA. It was organized primarily as an in-person meeting but included individual breakout sessions responsible for enabling remote participation as needed.

Most of each day was scheduled by the communities as breakouts, with lightning talks scheduled on the first day. Posters were displayed for the duration of the meeting. In addition, each day included time for community discussion and wrap-ups of breakouts and advertisements for following breakouts

Please see the full event schedule and videos below.

Monday – April 24

Monday
(PDT // UTC-7) Track A: Room 130 Track B: Room 230 Track C: Room 303
08:30 – 9:00
Welcome
Invited presentation & lightning talks
9:00 – 9:30
9:30 – 10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30
SBOL Ontology Terms
* FROG based curation of constraint-based models and manuscript preparation
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-1:00 (13:00)
Lunch
1:00-1:30 (13:00-13:30)
1:30-2:00 (13:30-14:00)
2:00-2:30 (14:00-14:30)
2:30-3:00 (14:30-15:00)
Layout and render breakout
SEED Tutorial Prepation
libOmexMeta support for CellML 2.0
3:00-3:30 (15:00-15:30)
3:30-4:00 (15:30-16:00)
4:00-4:30 (16:00-16:30) Afternoon tea
4:30-5:00 (16:30-17:00) Wrapups (Room 130)
SBOL Hackathons
5:00-5:30 (17:00-17:30)
5:30-6:00 (17:30-18:00)
6:00-6:30 (18:00-18:30)

Tuesday – April 25

Tuesday
(PDT // UTC-7) Track A: Room 130 Track B: Room 230 Track C: Room 403
08:30 – 9:00
Welcome and Breakout Introductions (Room 130)
9:00 – 9:30
Human-friendly JSON for RDF Objects
* FAIRSPACE – a community infrastructure for validation, execution and FAIR sharing of multiscale multicellular virtual tissue simulation
9:30 – 10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30
Choosing annotation resources: Kegg, CheBI, UniProt, BioCyc… ?
SBOL tools and best practices
Rule-based modeling and SBML Multi Package
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-1:00 (13:00)
Lunch
1:00-1:30 (13:00-13:30)
1:30-2:00 (13:30-14:00)
2:00-2:30 (14:00-14:30)
2:30-3:00 (14:30-15:00)
SED-ML Workshop
Identity aliases for SBOL
3:00-3:30 (15:00-15:30)
3:30-4:00 (15:30-16:00)
4:00-4:30 (16:00-16:30) Afternoon tea
4:30-5:00 (16:30-17:00) Wrapups (Room 130)
5:00-5:30 (17:00-17:30)
SED-ML Workshop
SBOL Hackathons
5:30-6:00 (17:30-18:00)
6:00-6:30 (18:00-18:30)

Wednesday – April 26

Wednesday
(PDT // UTC-7) Track A: Room 130 Track B: Room 230 Track C: Room 403
08:30 – 9:00
Welcome and Breakout Introductions (Room 130)
9:00 – 9:30
FAIR indicators and evaluation tool of COMBINE archives
Community outreach & SBOL industrial engagement
* FAIRSPACE – a community infrastructure for validation, execution and FAIR sharing of multiscale multicellular virtual tissue simulation
9:30 – 10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30
FAIR indicators and evaluation tool of COMBINE archives
SBOL Community Media and Developer Documentation
Rule-based modeling and SBML Multi Package
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-1:00 (13:00)
1:00-1:30 (13:00-13:30)
Lunch
1:30-2:00 (13:30-14:00)
2:00-2:30 (14:00-14:30)
2:30-3:00 (14:30-15:00)
Biosimulations Workshop
SBOL Hackathons
Updating / fixing the biomodels.net qualifiers web pages
3:00-3:30 (15:00-15:30)
3:30-4:00 (15:30-16:00)
4:00-4:30 (16:00-16:30) Afternoon tea
4:30-5:00 (16:30-17:00) Wrapups (Room 1)
5:00-5:30 (17:00-17:30)
Spatial Visualization Workshop
SBOL Hackathons
libCellML 1.0
5:30-6:00 (17:30-18:00)
6:00-6:30 (18:00-18:30)

Thursday – April 27

Thursday
(PDT // UTC-7) Track A: Room 130/303 Track B: Room 230 Track C: 403
08:30 – 9:00
Welcome and Breakout Introductions (Room 130)
9:00 – 9:30
Python Tools for the COMBINE community
Integration of experimental data and data management with SBOL
* FAIRSPACE – a community infrastructure for validation, execution and FAIR sharing of multiscale multicellular virtual tissue simulation
9:30 – 10:00
10:00-10:30
10:30-11:00 Morning tea
11:00-11:30
Python Tools for the COMBINE community
Migration issues from SBOL2 to SBOL3
11:30-12:00
12:00-12:30
12:30-1:00 (13:00)
Lunch
1:00-1:30 (13:00-13:30)
1:30-2:00 (13:30-14:00)
2:00-2:30 (14:00-14:30)
2:30-3:00 (14:30-15:00)
SBOL Hackathons
3:00-3:30 (15:00-15:30)
3:30-4:00 (15:30-16:00)
4:00-4:30 (16:00-16:30) Afternoon tea
4:30-5:00 (16:30-17:00) Wrapups (Room 1)
5:00-5:30 (17:00-17:30)
SBOL Hackathons
5:30-6:00 (17:30-18:00)
6:00-6:30 (18:00-18:30)

Harmony 2023 Videos

Harmony 2023: Lightning Talks
Moderated by Lucian Smith

April 24, 2023

Harmony 2023: Annotation Resources Discussion
John Gennari

April 25, 2023

Harmony 2023: Biosimulations Workshop
Eran Agmon and Ion Moraru

April 25, 2023

Harmony 2023: SED-ML Workshop
Lucian Smith

April 25, 2023

Harmony 2023: FAIR Indicators and Evaluation Tool
Dagmar Waltemath,Francois Ancien, and Irinia Balaur

April 26, 2023

Harmony 2023: Python Tools for The COMBINE Community
Frank Bergman

April 26, 2023

FAIRSPACE – Part I
Group Discussion
April 26, 2023

FAIRSPACE – Part II
Group Discussion
April 27, 2023

FAIRSPACE – Part III
Group Discussion
April 27, 2023