Cytoscape Developer Retreat 2006

San Francisco - October 9th - 14th, 2006

The 4th Annual Cytoscape Retreat will be held October 11th - 13th, 2006 (Wed-Fri) at UCSF Mission Bay Campus in San Francisco. The retreat will be preceded by a 2-day Hackathon on the 9th and 10th. And, if you can stay another day, there will be recreational activities organized for Saturday the 14th.

Cytoscape is jointly developed by the groups of Benno Schwikowski (Pasteur Institute, Paris), Trey Ideker (University of California San Diego), Chris Sander (Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center), Lee Hood (Institute of Systems Biology, Seattle), and Annette Adler (Agilent Technologies, Santa Clara, CA). This year the retreat will be co-hosted by two new contributor groups of Tom Ferrin (UCSF Computer Graphics Laboratory) and Bruce Conklin (Gladstone/UCSF, GenMAPP).

The meeting will mainly be informal and technically focused with all major Cytoscape team members gathered together to set new directions for Cytoscape, plan new features and collaboratively work on code. Cytoscape-related presentations by invitees are welcome. Social activities around the meeting are also scheduled. This is a great chance to influence the development direction of Cytoscape.

We've added a public symposium this year to take advantage of the large number of institutions in the Bay Area with a significant interest in systems biology and the network visualization of biological data. Our goal is to invite presentations to provide attendees with an overview of Cytoscape as a tool and (more importantly) some of the areas of science that it is being applied to. We will be forming a "program committee" in the next couple of weeks, so if you have any great ideas, please send e-mail to [mailto:apico@gladstone.ucsf.edu Alex Pico] or [mailto:scooter@cgl.ucsf.edu Scooter Morris].

Preliminary Schedule

Campus & Conference Rooms

University of California San Francisco, UCSF, Mission Bay Campus: http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/ BRJ. David Gladstone Institutes, Mission Bay: http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/missionbay/ BRGenentech Hall - N114: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GEN%20-N114.html BRGenentech Hall Auditorium: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GenentechHallAuditorium.html BRGladstone Auditroium: attachment:Gladstone_Auditorium

Hackathon

October 9 and 10th, 2006, (Mon-Tues) at Mission Bay, UCSF, developers will have the opportunity to play with code pre-meeting. If you are interested in taking part in the Hackathon then be sure to plan accordingly (i.e., 2-days earlier) and indicate your interest in your registration. Find more information on Hackathon topics [:/Hackathon:here].

Registration

This is a free event. Please use our online registration system: [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/surveyCGI.py?../datadocs/Workshops/CytoscapeRetreat/wsReg.xml Register Now!] BRIf you have any problems email [mailto:scooter@cgl.ucsf.edu Scooter Morris] or [mailto:apico@gladstone.ucsf.edu Alex Pico].

Location

Mission Bay Campus University of California San Francisco 600 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94158

http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/

Hotel Suggestions

October is a big conference month in San Francisco. We highly recommend making your reservations ASAP! Try hotels.com or check out these options below:

• $ [http://www.thepowellhotel.com/ The Powell Hotel] --> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=28+Cyril+Magnin+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • "Official" Cytoscape Developer's Pick!

  • Conveniently located at the Powell BART station, 1 block from the UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
  • Decent sized rooms, simply decorated
  • Cafe Powell is located in the lobby
  • Free wireless in all rooms

• $ [http://www.hotelmarktwain.com/ Hotel Mark Twain] --> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=345+Taylor+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • Located 4 blocks from the UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
  • Small but warmly decorated rooms, lobby, bar
  • Popular Sultan Indian Restaurant in the lobby
  • Exercise room
  • Wireless access for $9.95 per 24-hour period

• $ [http://www.hotelastoria-sf.com/ Hotel Astoria] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=510+Bush+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • Located 3 blocks from the UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
  • Located at the famous gates of Chinatown!
  • Decent sized rooms, not really decorated
  • Continental breakfast included
  • No wireless available

• $ [http://www.jdvhospitality.com/hotels/hotel/248 Hotel Carlton] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=1075+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • Not conveniently located in the Tenderloin district (think, sketchy)

  • Transportation: 47 bus on Van Ness to CalTrans Station, then UCSF shuttle service to Mission Bay

  • Beautiful, large rooms and lobby - very nice
  • Internet access in some public areas; pay for room access

• $$ [http://www.cartwrighthotel.com/ Cartwright Hotel] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=524+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • Great neighborhood, just 5 blocks from UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
  • Very nice rooms

• $$$ [http://www.hotelpalomar.com/ Hotel Palomar] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=12+fourth+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map]

  • Located 1 block from UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
  • Very, very nice rooms

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