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
  • DDBJ
    • Hideaki Sugawara ( DDBJ, Japan;  DDBJ XML)
    • Yasumasa Shigemoto (DDBJ, Japan; DDBJ XML)
  • KEGG
    • Shuichi Kawashima (Univ of Tokyo, Japan; KEGG API)
    • Satoshi Miyazaki (Japan; KEGG)
  • PDBj
    • Akira Kinjo (Osaka Univ, Japan; PDBj)
  • CBRC
    • Tatsuya Nishizawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan; PDBj)
    • Hiroyuki Sato (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan)
    • Oto Maekawa (IMS/DBCLS/CBRC, Japan)
  • EBI
    • Richard Cote (EBI, UK; PICR and OLS web services)
    • Florian Reisinger (EBI, UK; ENVISION/ECORE, WS-I compliant services for Ensembl, UniProt-DAS, ArrayExpress, PRIDE , IntAct, and Reactome)
    • Arnaud Kerhornou (EBI, UK; ex-INB, IMIM)
  • Other web service providers and standard exchange format developers
    • Alberto Labarga (Integromics, Spain; ex-EBI)
    • Matthew Pocock (Newcastle, UK; Taverna, BioJava)
    • Osvaldo Trelles (INB, Spain; MOWServ)
    • Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester, UK; Text mining)
    • Jan Christian Bryne (Computational Biology Unit, Bergen; EMBRACE)
    • Evangelos Pafilis (European Molecular Biology Laboratory; SRS web services)
    • Bruno Aranda (EBI, UK;  IntAct)
    • Lukasz Salwinski (US;  DIP)
    • Michael Kuhn (Germany; STRING)
    • Rene Ranzinger (Germany; Glycoinformatics)
    • Kiyoko Kinoshita (Soka Univ, Japan; Glycoinformatics)
    • Ken Fukuda (CBRC, Japan; BioPAX, INOH)

• Open Bio* developers
  • BioRuby
    • Mitsuteru Nakao (Kazusa DNA Res, Japan; BioRuby)
    • Naohisa Goto (Osaka Univ, Japan; BioRuby)
    • Jan Aerts ( BBSRC, UK; BioRuby)
    • Pjotr Prins (BioRuby)
    • Alex Gutteridge (BioRuby)
    • Christian Zmasek (BioRuby)
    • Raoul Jean Pierre Bonnal (BioRuby, BioSQL)
  • BioJava
    • Mark Schreiber (BioJava)
    • Richard Holland (BioJava, BioMart)
  • BioPerl
    • Heikki Lehvaslaiho (BioPerl)
    • Hilmar Lapp (BioPerl)
    • Rutger Vos (BioPerl)

• Workflow client developers
  • Tom Oinn (EBI, UK; Taverna/myGrid)
  • Stuart Owen (EBI, UK; Taverna)
  • Kazuharu Arakawa (Keio Univ, Japan; E-Cell, G-language)
  • Hiroyuki Nakamura (Keio Univ, Japan; eXpanda)
  • Keiichiro Ohno (UCSD, US; Cytoscape)
  • Akira Funahashi (Keio Univ, Japan; SBML)

• BioMOBY project
  • Mark Wilkinson ( Univ of British Columbia, Canada; BioMOBY)
  • Martin Senger (BioPerl, BioMOBY - CGIAR Generation Challenge Project)
  • Andreas Groscurth (the lead BioMOBY developer at the Max Planck Institute in Germany for the European Tomato Project)
  • Paul Gordon (the lead BioMOBY developer in the SUN Centre of Excellence for the Genome Canada Bioinformatics Platform)
  • Masaru Takeya (AFFRC, Japan; BioMOBY)
  • Lord Hendrix Barboza (IRRI; BioMOBY)
  • Richard Bruskiewich (IRRI; BioMOBY)

To be confirmed

• Web service providers
  • Interaction network/Pathway data standardization
    • Emek Demir (SBML)
    • Gary Bader ( http://www.baderlab.org/) -> NG
    • cPath/PathwayCommons ( http://cbio.mskcc.org/cpath/home.do  http://www.pathwaycommons.org/pc/) -> NG
    • BioGRID -> NG?
  • BioMart
    • Arek Kasprzyk -> NG
  • Textmining
    • Yoshinobu Kano (Japan)
  • Masayuki Kawashima (FQS, Japan; KEGG)
  • Teresa Miyar (EBI, UK; EBI web services - Blast, InterproScan, Dbfetch, EB-Eye, IPRservice, ELM/CS, etc.)
  • Robert D. Finn (Sanger Institute; PFAM)

• Open Bio* developers
  • BioPerl
    • Lincoln Stein (BioPerl, BioMOBY, BioDAS)
    • Jason Stajich (BioPerl)
    • Aaron J Mackey (BioPerl) -> NG
    • Ewan Birney (BioPerl, Ensembl)
    • Chiris Dagdigian (O|B|F)
  • BioPython
    • Andrew Dalke (BioPython)
    • Michael de Hoon (BioPython)
  • BioRuby
    • Andreas Biegert (Max-Planck-Institute; MPI toolkit)
  • BioJava
    • Andreas Prlic
    • Andy Yates

• Workflow client development
  • June Finch (Taverna)

• BioMOBY project
  • Edward Kawas (the lead BioMOBY developer in Mark's lab)
  • Romina Royo (one of the lead BioMOBY developers for the Genome Espania Bioinformatics Platform)
  • Pieter Neerincx (the lead BioMOBY developer in the Netherlands)
  • Takeshi Itoh (AFFRC, Japan)
  • Akane Takezaki (AFFRC, Japan)

and more...

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

• NCBI web service developers
• BioPython developers