= !BioHackathon 2008 =

Towards integrated web service in life science with Open Bio* libraries.

== Objectives ==

 * Standardizing the objects and methods in bioinformatics web services.


 * [wiki:CallForParticipation]

== Venue ==

 * Tokyo, Japan
 * Candidate dates:
   1. 2008/02/10-02/16
   2. 2008/01/27-02/02
   3. 2008/02/03-02/09

== Attendees ==

 * [wiki:ListOfAttendies]

 * Toshiaki Katayama (Univ of Tokyo, Japan; BioRuby, KEGG API, KEGG DAS)
 * Hideaki Sugawara (DDBJ, Japan; DDBJ XML)
 * Alberto Labarga (Integromics, Spain; ex-EBI)
 * Matthew Pocock (Newcastle, UK; Taverna, BioJava)
 * Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK; Text mining)
 * Kazuharu Arakawa (Keio Univ, Japan; E-Cell, G-language)
 * Mitsuteru Nakao (Kazusa DNA Res, Japan; BioRuby)
 * Naohisa Goto (Osaka Univ, Japan; BioRuby)
 * Shuichi Kawashima (Univ of Tokyo, Japan; KEGG API)
 * Yasunori Yamamoto (DBCLS, Japan; Text mining)
 * Atsuko Yamaguchi (DBCLS, Japan)

Under consideration:

 * Tom Oinn (Taverna/myGrid)
 * Mark Wilkinson (BioMOBY)
 * Lincoln Stein (BioPerl, BioMOBY, BioDAS)
 * Martin Senger (BioPerl, EBI WS)
 * Heikki Lehvaslaiho (BioPerl)
 * Jason Stajich (BioPerl)
 * Chiris Dagdigian (O|B|F)
 * Darin London (O|B|F)
 * Win Hide
 * Suzanna Lewis
 * Ewan Birney (BioPerl, Ensembl)
 * Hilmar Lapp (BioPerl)
 * Aaron J Mackey (BioPerl)
 * Elia Stupka (BioPerl)
 * Jeffrey Chang (BioPython)
 * Brad Chapman (BioPython)
 * Andrew Dalke (BioPython)
 * Christian Zmasek (BioRuby)
 * Jan Aerts (BioRuby)
 * Alex Gutteridge (BioRuby)
 * Pjotr Prins (BioRuby)
 * Keiichiro Ohno (Cytoscape)
 * Funahashi (SBML)
 * Nagamura? (BioMOBY) www.nias.affrc.go.jp
 * Shigemoto (DDBJ XML)
 * Nishizawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC; PDBj)
 * Sato (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC)
 * Maekawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC)

and more...

If you could recommend any appropriate persons from the following groups, please let me know:
 * NCBI web service developers
 * BioMOBY service developers (I found some interesting providers in Spain)
 * BioPerl, BioPython, and BioJava developers

== Starting Points ==

 * TracGuide --  Built-in Documentation
 * [http://trac.edgewall.org/ The Trac project] -- Trac Open Source Project
 * [http://trac.edgewall.org/wiki/TracFaq Trac FAQ] -- Frequently Asked Questions
 * TracSupport --  Trac Support

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