[BBF Standards] SB4 workshops on standards

[Drew Endy]

Mac,

SB4.0 will have multiple sessions running for most of the conference,  
is my current understanding.

Drew


On May 11, 2008, at 10:51 PM, Mackenzie Cowell wrote:

> Howdy Everyone,
>
> Over the last week and a half there has been a discussion of  
> interesting workshop topics off-list.  I am going to summarize the  
> topics people explicitly expressed interest in organizing with the  
> hope that it will help everyone collaborate before the deadline this  
> Wednesday.  This is definitely not an official list of any kind.
>
> * PoBoL, a Provisional BioBrick Language (http://pobol.org) - Mac  
> Cowell, Jason Morrision, Raik Gruenburg, ?
>
> * Experimental Measurement Standards - Kim de Mora, Ingrid Swanson,  
> Jason Kelly, ?
>
> * Software Tools for Genetic Network Construction - Deepak Chandran,  
> Sean Sleight, Herbert Sauro
>
>
> Additionally, here are the other workshop topics the thread thought  
> were interesting but that did not become explicitly attached to an  
> organizer.  I think it would be just great if all of these were  
> explored at SB4.0.   If you are an expert in any of these areas and  
> not already presenting, I encourage you to organize a workshop.
>
> * General overview of Synthetic Biology standards (construction &  
> sharing) / Standards 101
>
> * Physical construction standards - BBa, BB++, BB extreme, BB etc.
>
> * Sharing BioBrick data (i.e. PoBoL, MIT Registry XML ouptut / DAS,  
> BioJade architecture, Registry of Models)
>
> * Promoter Standardization
>
> * Vector Standardization
>
> * The current (and upcoming) ecology of Registries
>
> * How to build an effective physical repository (i.e. storing &  
> shipping hundreds of thousands of biobricks)
>
> * SB CAD tools
>
> * SB publishing - IET SB, JBE, and Synthetic Biology
>
> * DIYbio / "gargista" synthetic biology (diybio.org)
>
>
> Mac Cowell
> Bricklet.org
>
> p.s. Based on my reading of the SB4.0 website, there are going to be  
> three rooms per day hosting four workshops each for three days, or  
> *36 workshop sessions total* - is this correct?  Or is there only  
> one day for workshops?
>
> p.p.s CCed to the original contributors to the thread
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:49 PM, Deepak Chandran <deepakc at u.washington.edu 
> > wrote:
> 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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