List of Web Service Hackathon attendees

Confirmed

• Organizers
  • Toshiaki Katayama ( Univ of Tokyo, Japan;  BioRuby,  KEGG API,  KEGG DAS)
  • Yasunori Yamamoto ( DBCLS, Japan; Text mining)
  • Atsuko Yamaguchi (DBCLS, Japan)
  • Tamotsu Noguchi (CBRC, Japan)
  • Kiyoshi Asai ( CBRC, Japan)
  • Toshihisa Takagi (DBCLS, Japan)

• Web service providers
  • Hideaki Sugawara ( DDBJ, Japan;  DDBJ XML)
  • Yasumasa Shigemoto (DDBJ, Japan; DDBJ XML)
  • Alberto Labarga (Integromics, Spain; ex-EBI)
  • Matthew Pocock (Newcastle, UK; Taverna, BioJava)
  • Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK; Text mining)
  • Shuichi Kawashima (Univ of Tokyo, Japan; KEGG API)
  • Tatsuya Nishizawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan; PDBj)
  • Hiroyuki Sato (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan)
  • Oto Maekawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan)

• Open Bio* developers
  • BioRuby
    • Mitsuteru Nakao (Kazusa DNA Res, Japan; BioRuby)
    • Naohisa Goto (Osaka Univ, Japan; BioRuby)

• Workflow client developers
  • Tom Oinn (EBI, UK; Taverna/myGrid)
  • Kazuharu Arakawa (Keio Univ, Japan; E-Cell, G-language)

• BioMOBY project
  • Mark Wilkinson ( Univ of British Columbia, Canada; BioMOBY)
  • Martin Senger (BioPerl, BioMOBY - CGIAR Generation Challenge Project)
  • Edward Kawas (the lead BioMOBY developer in Mark's lab)
  • Paul Gordon (the lead BioMOBY developer in the SUN Centre of Excellence for the Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform)
  • Andreas Groscurth (the lead BioMOBY developer at the Max Planck Institute in Germany for the European Tomato Project)
  • Romina Royo (one of the lead BioMOBY developers for the Genome Espania Bioinformatics Platform)
  • Pieter Neerincx (the lead BioMOBY developer in the Netherlands)

To be confirmed

• Web service providers
  • Keiichiro Ohno (UCSD, US; Cytoscape)
  • Masayuki Kawashima (FQS, Japan; KEGG)
  • Osvaldo Trelles (INB, Spain; MOWServ)
  • Richard Cote (EBI, UK; PICR and OLS web services)
  • Teresa Miyar (EBI, UK; EBI web services - Blast, InterproScan?, Dbfetch, EB-Eye, IPRservice, ELM/CS, etc.)
  • Arnaud Kerhornou (EBI, UK; ex-INB, IMIM)
  • Jan Christian Bryne (Computational Biology Unit, Bergen; EMBRACE)
  • Robert D. Finn (Sanger Institute; PFAM)
  • Evangelos Pafilis (European Molecular Biology Laboratory; SRS web services)

• Open Bio* developers
  • BioPerl
    • Lincoln Stein (BioPerl, BioMOBY, BioDAS)
    • Jason Stajich (BioPerl)
    • Heikki Lehvaslaiho (BioPerl)
    • Hilmar Lapp (BioPerl)
    • Aaron J Mackey (BioPerl)
    • Ewan Birney (BioPerl, Ensembl)
    • Chiris Dagdigian (O|B|F)
  • BioPython
    • Jeffrey Chang (BioPython)
    • Brad Chapman (BioPython)
    • Andrew Dalke (BioPython)
    • Michael de Hoon (BioPython)
  • BioRuby
    • Jan Aerts (BioRuby)
    • Christian Zmasek (BioRuby)
    • Alex Gutteridge (BioRuby)
    • Pjotr Prins (BioRuby)
    • Andreas Biegert (Max-Planck-Institute; MPI toolkit)

• BioMOBY developers
  • Nagamura-san? (BioMOBY) www.nias.affrc.go.jp

and more...

If you could recommend any appropriate persons from the following groups, please let me know:

• NCBI web service developers
• BioPerl, BioPython, and BioJava developers