The Virtual Physiological Human Workshop
2-3 February 2009
Dear Associates,
The EBI will host The Virtual Physiological Human Project Workshop on the 2nd to 3rd February 2009.
The venue will be the Francis Crick Auditorium at the Wellcome Trust Conference Centre on the 2nd February and the EBI IT Training room on the 3rd February.
This meeting will present efforts by the Virtual Physiological Human (VPH) community, as well as other specialities, to model human structures and their function across different scales. This event also aims to advance the computational unification of anatomy in biological and pharmacological databases, physiological models, radiological images and clinical records.
Updates on key research in academia and industry will discuss the modelling of concepts (e.g. disease ontologies), structures (e.g. protein structure, volumetric data) and processes (e.g. viral mechanisms, blood pressure regulation). Ways to foster the interoperability of such modelling methods will also be explored, together with approaches to improve access to clinical phenotypic data for basic research.
This event sets the stage to establish a community toolkit to achieve model interoperability across the VPH community. In particular, design solutions will be sought for the rigorous representation of human anatomy and the close study of its dynamic change in physiology, its orchestrated alteration in development, and its distortion in disease.
Organisers and contacts:
This meeting is organized by the Virtual Physiological Human Network of Excellence, in collaboration with the coordinator of the EBI Industry Programme, Dr. Dominic Clark (EMBL-EBI).
The scientific programme for this meeting was co-ordinated by Prof. Peter Hunter (University of Auckland), Prof. Alex Frangi (University Pompeu Fabra), and Dr Bernard de Bono (EMBL-EBI).
We would like to invite you to attend this workshop - please find here below a preliminary agenda.
The 2nd February will be an open day to all and the 3rd February a closed workshop.
Agenda:
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