= !BioHackathon 2008 meeting schedule = == 2008/Feb/11 == Venue - [http://www.academyhills.com/english/ Roppongi Academy Hills] * 9:00-9:20 Meet in the lobby of Hotel Villa Fontaine Shiodome * 9:20-10:00 Take the Oedo subway line (Shiodome -> Roppongi Sta.) * 10:00-10:30 Registration (40th floor) * 10:30-10:35 Opening remarks * 10:35-10:45 Announcements from organizers * 10:45-12:30 Presentations * 12:30-14:00 Lunch * 14:00-17:00 Open Space On Feb 11th, we will meet in the lobby of Hotel Villa Fontaine Shiodome at 9:00AM. Then, we will take the Oedo subway line to transfer from the Shiodome station to the Roppongi station. The venue on the first day is at the 40th floor of the Roppongi Hills building and we will start the conference at 10:30AM after the registration. === Presentations (morning session) === Organizers will select some general (global) presentations for the morning session. If any of you have a proposal for presentation, please let me know as soon as possible. List of proposed agenda: * Objectives of this hackathon and current status of Japanese web services - Toshiaki Katayama * From Web API for Biology (WABI) to Semantic Web API for Biology (SABI) - Hideaki Sugawara * Current status of the BioMOBY project and vision for the future directions - Mark Wilkinson * EMBRACE project and WS-I standard compared with the BioMOBY approach - Jan Christian Bryne * Soaplab2 project to wrap up command line packages - Martin Senger * Proxying legacy applications and CGIs into BioMOBY - Paul Gordon === Open Space (evening session) === In the evening session, as we have relatively large number of participants, I'd like to use Open Space method for discussing in sub groups. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Space_Technology So, after lunch, we will discuss to select several topics proposed by participants, and all of you will join one of the topic specific groups. You can switch your group at any time if your interest shifts, but please find some goals that you will tackle with during this !BioHackathon by the end of the day. == 2008/Feb/12 == Venue - [http://www.cbrc.jp/index.eng.html CBRC] (Computational Biology Research Center) * 9:00-9:20 Meet in the hotel lobby * 9:20-10:00 Take the Yurikamome line (Shiodome -> Telecom Center Sta.) * 10:00-18:00 Hack, hack, hack (8th floor) * 18:30-20:30 Banquet (11th floor) You can go out for lunch at any time but please back by 17:00. == 2008/Feb/13 == Venue - [http://www.cbrc.jp/index.eng.html CBRC] (Computational Biology Research Center) * 10:00-18:00 Hack, hack, hack (8th floor) You can go out for lunch at any time but please back by 17:00. == 2008/Feb/14 == Venue - [http://www.cbrc.jp/index.eng.html CBRC] (Computational Biology Research Center) * 10:00-18:00 Hack, hack, hack (8th floor) You can go out for lunch at any time but please back by 17:00. == 2008/Feb/15 == Venue - [http://www.cbrc.jp/index.eng.html CBRC] (Computational Biology Research Center) * 10:00-15:00 Hack, hack, hack * 15:00-17:55 Summary discussion * 17:55-18:00 Closing remarks You can go out for lunch at any time but please back by 14:00.