| | 4 | |
| | 5 | == Objectives |
| | 6 | |
| | 7 | Main objective of the meeting is to continue global efforts to standardize |
| | 8 | biological database resources and to improve usability and interoperability |
| | 9 | of bioinformatics services, which were proposed in the previous meeting. |
| | 10 | |
| | 11 | The agenda of the previous meeting, BioHackathon 2008, is available at |
| | 12 | |
| | 13 | http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/ |
| | 14 | |
| | 15 | Additionally, we also hope to collaborate with |
| | 16 | |
| | 17 | * Organizations which have similar mission with us (e.g. ELIXIR) for the complemental efforts. |
| | 18 | |
| | 19 | * Developers of integrated platforms like BioMart, GMOD, Galaxy etc. |
| | 20 | |
| | 21 | so that we can cover various aspects of the current problems in |
| | 22 | infrastructure, middleware, and end-user applications. |
| | 23 | |
| | 24 | == Goals == |
| | 25 | |
| | 26 | * Improve Open Bio* libraries and other tools to apply real world issues. |
| | 27 | |
| | 28 | * Discuss about the guidelines (manifesto) towards standardization of |
| | 29 | data types and protocols for the integration of databases and services. |
| | 30 | |
| | 31 | * Publicaition of a meeting report. |
| | 32 | |
| | 33 | == Free of charge == |
| | 34 | |
| | 35 | The meeting is sponsored by the DBCLS (database center for life science; |
| | 36 | http://dbcls.rois.ac.jp/en/) and your flights and accommodation fees will be |
| | 37 | covered by our budget. |
| | 38 | |
