SBGN-1

February 11-12, 2006, at AIST in Tokyo, Japan.

Introduction

The first international workshop on the Systems Biology Graphical Notation (SBGN-1) took place February 11-12, 2006, at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), in Tokyo, Japan. This first workshop was aimed at intensive discussions about the formation of a standard for the graphical display for biological network diagrams. Diagrams may cover a wide range of biological processes and express various levels of abstraction. The limitations of current graphical notations has been widely recognized, and several efforts has been made to rectify the situation.

Workshop co-organizers:

• Ken Ichirou Fukuda (AIST)
• Hiroaki Kitano (SBI & Sony CSL)
• Mike Hucka (Caltech)
• Nicolas Le Novère (EBI)
• Yukiko Matsuoka (SBI & JST)
• Akira Funahashi (SBI & JST)

This workshop was made possible by support from the NEDO METI International Grant (Japan), the JST SORST program (Japan), the Genome Network Project (MEXT, Japan), the Swedish-Japanese Strategic Research Program (JST), and AIST CBRC (METI).

Agenda: Presentations, Discussions and Notes

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Day 1 (Saturday, 11 February 2006)

Day 2 (Sunday, 12 February 2006)

Workshop Participants

Workshop Location

The workshop was held at the AIST Tokyo Waterfront Bio-IT Research Building, 11th floor. The venue was made available thanks to Ken Fukuda of AIST.

The page of detailed directions to the AIST building provide a guide for getting from the hotel to the AIST.

For those of you already familiar with the area from past visits, it may help to know that the AIST building is very near the MeSci building (Miraikan), site of past SBML and other meetings. You simply need to walk a little farther out past MeSci.

Accommodations

Reservations for SBGN-1 participants were made at the Hotel Villa Fontaine Shiodome. The hotel is located right outside a major train and subway exchange point. Getting from the hotel to the SBGN-1 venue is a simple matter of taking the Yurikamome line from the station right next to the hotel to the AIST building. Detailed directions are available on a separate page.

Pre-Meeting Background Materials

The development of graphical diagrammatic notations for biological networks is an active area of work. The following papers are valuable readings on topics that figured prominently at SBGN-2.

Kitano process diagram notation

• Kitano/Funahashi/Matsuoka/Oda 2005 paper in Nature Biotech.
• Kitano 2003 on biochemical networks in BIOSILICO.
• The Process Diagram: Rationale and Definition unpublished manuscript

Kohn Molecular Interaction Maps (MIM) notation

• Kohn/Aladjem/Weinstein/Pommier 2006 paper in Mol. Bio. of the Cell
• Kohn/Aladjem commentary in Mol. Sys. Bio. 2006
• Kohn 2001 paper in Chaos

Edinburgh Pathway Notation

• Moodie/Sorokin/Goryanin/Ghazal 2006 paper in J. Integrative Bioinformatics 2006

Patika

• Demir et al. 2004 paper in Bioinformatics
• Dogrusoz et al. paper submitted, in review in ACM Trans. Graphics

INOH

• Fukuda and Takagi 2004 paper in ACM conference on Asia-Pacific bioinformatics
• Yamamoto et al. 2003 paper in Genome Informatics

SBML Layout and Rendering Extensions proposals

• Gauges/Rost/Sahle/Wegner paper submitted, in-review in Bioinformatics
• Gauges/Sahle/Wegner draft render extensions proposal manuscript

Travel Information

Please print and take with you our pre-travel information page. This will help you find your way upon arrival at Narita airport.

Notice about visa requirements: All overseas visitors wishing to enter Japan require a valid Passport. A visa is also required for participants coming from countries without visa exemption agreements with Japan. Please visit http://www.mofa.go.jp/j_info/visit/visa/index.html for more information.