[BBF Standards] SB4 workshops on standards

[Deepak Chandran]

Drew and rest,

When I was naming the workshops, I was just listing general examples 
that came to mind. A third workshop can be related to the registry, 
although that could be integrated in the computational standards 
workshop depending on what perspective people want to take.

At the standards workshop in Seattle, several languages were presented 
that can potentially be used to represent synthetic biology devices 
(from the functional perspective). It would be nice to have a few test 
cases (past iGEM project, perhaps?) that each language can try to 
represent. Then the community can assess what features they like and 
don't like. Since there is already a computational tools page on OWW, 
this can just expand upon that.

As for another workshop before October, I think it is a good idea to 
have these topics being discussed frequently, especially for those who 
are active in the field. Travel would probably be the limiting factor.

--Deepak

Drew Endy wrote:
> Deepak,
>
> I think that this is a great idea.  You wrote "two of three" 
> workshops, but then only list experimental and computational.  Did you 
> have a third topic in mind already?
>
> Or, more generally for everybody, what standards topics should we hope 
> to discuss at SB4?
>
> On a related note, we should also consider if folks would like to have 
> a standards workshop somewhere (Europe?) before SB4, which is not 
> until October?
>
> Cheers,
> Drew
>
>
> On May 2, 2008, at 8:31 PM, Deepak Chandran wrote:
>
>> We (Sauro group at Seattle) had been thinking about having two of three
>> workshops at the SB4 that would address different aspects of the
>> standardization process, such as experimental standards, computational
>> standards, etc. Ideally, these workshops should not be held in parallel,
>> so that people can partake in all of them. If there are enough people
>> interested, we can plan this together. I can organize a computational
>> standards workshop -- would anyone like to present at this one?
>>
>> --Deepak
>>
>>
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