Date: April 8th to April 11th, 2024
Place: Centre For Medical Image Computing, University College London, 90 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6LJ.

HARMONY 2024 will be an in-person meeting.

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 2024 will be hosted by Sarah Keating and Padraig Gleeson , at the University College London. It is going to be organized primarily as an in-person meeting, with individual breakout sessions responsible for enabling remote participation as needed.

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

Topics of Interest

  • Data exchange, pipelines, and model standards for systems and synthetic biology
  • Visualization and graphical notation standards for systems and synthetic biology
  • Standards for sharing and analyzing biological pathway data
  • Standards for computational biological models and modeling support
  • Metadata description and model annotation in COMBINE standard formats
  • Implementation of COMBINE standards in tools, databases, and other resources
  • Integrated model and data management for systems and synthetic biology
  • Standardization of Artificial Intelligence approaches in biological modeling
  • Emerging standardization needs and multicellular modeling
  • Community aspects of COMBINE

Important Dates
March 11, 2024: Breakout submission deadline (for initial scheduling, and then ongoing)
March 11, 2024: Lightning talk and poster submission deadline
March 18, 2024: Notification of acceptance for breakout and tutorials
March 18, 2024: Notification of acceptance for lightning talks and posters

For more information and submissions, visit https://co.mbine.org/events/.

Registration for the meeting is open and free.

For more information please visit Harmony 2024.