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~+'''San Francisco - October 9th - 14th, 2006''' [http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/surveyCGI.py?../datadocs/Workshops/CytoscapeRetreat/wsReg.xml Register Now!] +~ | ~+'''San Francisco - October 9th - 14th, 2006''' [[http://www.cgl.ucsf.edu/cgi-bin/surveyCGI.py?../datadocs/Workshops/CytoscapeRetreat/wsReg.xml|Register Now!]] +~ |
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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]. | 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]]. |
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||10:00AM-10:15AM ||Perspective by Guy Warner (Unilever, UK) || ||10:15AM-11:00AM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Patricia Babbitt] (QB3/UCSF, San Francisco) [[BR]]''"Network Analysis Reveals New Relationships among Divergent Proteins Missed by Tree-Based Approaches"'' || ||11:00AM-11:45PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Gary Bader] (University of Toronto)[[BR]]''"BioPAX, cPath, and PDZ-based Protein Interaction Prediction"'' || |
||10:00AM-10:15AM ||Perspective by Guy Warner (Unilever, UK) <<BR>>[[attachment:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium/GuyWarner_CytoscapeSymposium2006.ppt]]|| ||10:15AM-11:00AM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Patricia Babbitt]] (QB3/UCSF, San Francisco) <<BR>>''"Network Analysis Reveals New Relationships among Divergent Proteins Missed by Tree-Based Approaches"'' || ||11:00AM-11:45PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Gary Bader]] (University of Toronto)<<BR>>''"BioPAX, cPath, and PDZ-based Protein Interaction Prediction"'' <<BR>>[[attachment:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium/GaryBader_CytoscapeSymposium2006.ppt]] || |
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||12:45PM-1:30PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Mirit Aladjem] (National Cancer Inst, NIH)[[BR]] ''"Molecular Interaction Maps of Biological Signalling Networks"'' || ||1:30PM-2:15PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Ilya Shmulevich] (ISB, Seattle)[[BR]]''"Data Integration and Genetic Network Modeling"'' || |
||12:45PM-1:30PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Mirit Aladjem]] (National Cancer Inst, NIH)<<BR>> ''"Molecular Interaction Maps of Biological Signalling Networks"'' <<BR>>[[attachment:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium/MiritAladjem_CytoscapeSymposium2006.ppt]]|| ||1:30PM-2:15PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Ilya Shmulevich]] (ISB, Seattle)<<BR>>''"Data Integration and Genetic Network Modeling"'' <<BR>>[[attachment:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium/IlyaShmulevich_CytoscapeSymposium2006.pdf]]|| |
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||2:30PM-3:15PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Benno Schwikowski] (Institut Pasteur, Paris)[[BR]]''"Mass Spec Informatics: Towards Dense Protein Expression Networks"'' || ||3:15PM-4:00PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium:Trey Ideker] (UCSD, San Diego)[[BR]]''"Protein Network Comparative Genomics"'' || |
||2:30PM-3:15PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Benno Schwikowski]] (Institut Pasteur, Paris)<<BR>>''"Mass Spec Informatics: Towards Dense Protein Expression Networks"'' || ||3:15PM-4:00PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Symposium|Trey Ideker]] (UCSD, San Diego)<<BR>>''"Protein Network Comparative Genomics"'' || |
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||<rowbgcolor="#ffeeaa">'''THU October 12th''' ||Genentech Hall Auditorium ([:/UserMeetingNotes:Meeting Notes])|| | ||<rowbgcolor="#ffeeaa">'''THU October 12th''' ||Genentech Hall Auditorium ([[/UserMeetingNotes|Meeting Notes]])|| |
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||11:00AM ||BIrds of Feather Sessions || | ||11:00AM ||Birds of Feather Sessions || |
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||2:30PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Plugins:Plugin & Usage Expo] (part I) || | ||2:30PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Plugins|Plugin & Usage Expo]] (part I) || |
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||3:45PM ||[:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Plugins:Plugin & Usage Expo] (part II) || | ||3:45PM ||[[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Plugins|Plugin & Usage Expo]] (part II) || |
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||12:30PM || Working Lunch - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burritos Burritos]|| | ||12:30PM || Working Lunch - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burritos|Burritos]]|| |
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||2:00PM ||Work on Road Map / Match Core Developers to Action Items|| ||4:00PM ||Wrap-up: SAB Input, Board Issues & Future Vision || ||5:30PM ||Dinner on own || |
||1:00PM || Parallel session of Board of Directors and SAB to discuss vision (Gladstone rm 403) || ||3:00PM ||Work on RoadMap2006 / Match Core Developers to Action Items|| ||5:00PM ||Wrap-up: SAB Input, Board Issues & Future Vision || ||5:45PM ||Dinner on own || |
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||Nature Tour ||AM Hiking SF Coastal Trail to Land's End Beach with Bruce Conklin [attachment:LandsEndHike3.jpg trail map] http://www.josephstubbscreations.com/Home2/sf/sfparks/lincoln/lincoln.html || ||Urban Tour ||AM Touring the historic Mission District murals with Allan Kuchinsky: http://www.precitaeyes.org/tours.html || ||Aqua Tour ||AM Swimming in the Bay with Scooter Morris || |
||NatureTour ||AM Hiking SF Coastal Trail to Land's End Beach with Bruce Conklin [[attachment:LandsEndHike3.jpg|trail map]] http://www.josephstubbscreations.com/Home2/sf/sfparks/lincoln/lincoln.html || ||UrbanTour ||AM Touring the historic Mission District murals with Allan Kuchinsky: http://www.precitaeyes.org/tours.html || ||AquaTour ||AM Swimming in the Bay with Scooter Morris || |
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University of California San Francisco, UCSF, Mission Bay Campus: http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/ [[BR]]J. David Gladstone Institutes, Mission Bay: http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/missionbay/ [[BR]]Genentech Hall - N114: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GEN%20-N114.html [[BR]]Genentech Hall Auditorium: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GenentechHallAuditorium.html [[BR]]Gladstone Auditorium: attachment:Gladstone_Auditorium | University of California San Francisco, UCSF, Mission Bay Campus: http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/ <<BR>>J. David Gladstone Institutes, Mission Bay: http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/missionbay/ <<BR>>Genentech Hall - N114: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GEN%20-N114.html <<BR>>Genentech Hall Auditorium: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GenentechHallAuditorium.html <<BR>>Gladstone Auditorium: [[attachment:Gladstone_Auditorium]] |
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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 [:CytoscapeRetreat2006/Hackathon:here]. | 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 [[CytoscapeRetreat2006/Hackathon|here]]. |
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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!] [[BR]]If you have any problems email [mailto:scooter@cgl.ucsf.edu Scooter Morris] or [mailto:apico@gladstone.ucsf.edu Alex Pico]. | 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!]] <<BR>>If you have any problems email [[mailto:scooter@cgl.ucsf.edu|Scooter Morris]] or [[mailto:apico@gladstone.ucsf.edu|Alex Pico]]. |
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* attachment:MissionBayCampus.pdf * attachment:MissionBayParking.pdf |
* [[attachment:MissionBayCampus.pdf]] * [[attachment:MissionBayParking.pdf]] |
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* $ [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] | * $ [[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]] |
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* $ [http://www.hotelmarktwain.com/ Hotel Mark Twain] --> [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=345+Taylor+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map] | * $ [[http://www.hotelmarktwain.com/|Hotel Mark Twain]] --> [[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=345+Taylor+St,+San+Francisco,+CA|map]] |
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* $ [http://www.hotelastoria-sf.com/ Hotel Astoria] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=510+Bush+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map] | * $ [[http://www.hotelastoria-sf.com/|Hotel Astoria]] - [[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=510+Bush+St,+San+Francisco,+CA|map]] |
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* $$ [http://www.cartwrighthotel.com/ Cartwright Hotel] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=524+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map] | * $$ [[http://www.cartwrighthotel.com/|Cartwright Hotel]] - [[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=524+Sutter+St,+San+Francisco,+CA|map]] |
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* $$$ [http://www.hotelpalomar.com/ Hotel Palomar] - [http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=12+fourth+St,+San+Francisco,+CA map] | * $$$ [[http://www.hotelpalomar.com/|Hotel Palomar]] - [[http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=12+fourth+St,+San+Francisco,+CA|map]] |
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* SFO airport -to- Hotel: Take the public BART train running every 15 minutes from SFO to the Powell Street station. ~30 minute ride. [http://www.bart.gov/stations/schedules/lineSchedules_ROUTE12_WD.asp BART Schedule] | * SFO airport -to- Hotel: Take the public BART train running every 15 minutes from SFO to the Powell Street station. ~30 minute ride. [[http://www.bart.gov/stations/schedules/lineSchedules_ROUTE12_WD.asp|BART Schedule]] |
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* Hotel -to- Conference: It's a 12 minute ride to the Mission Bay campus via the free UCSF shuttle (Forest Line). The shuttle picks up near the Powell St BART station in front of Old Navy. It runs every 30 minutes in two shifts: AM = 7:00-10:05, and PM = 3:45-midnight. [http://www.campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles/timetables/schedules_0706/forrest_mblocal.pdf Shuttle Schedule] | * Hotel -to- Conference: It's a 12 minute ride to the Mission Bay campus via the free UCSF shuttle (Forest Line). The shuttle picks up near the Powell St BART station in front of Old Navy. It runs every 30 minutes in two shifts: AM = 7:00-10:05, and PM = 3:45-midnight. [[http://www.campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles/timetables/schedules_0706/forrest_mblocal.pdf|Shuttle Schedule]] |
Cytoscape Developer Retreat 2006
San Francisco - October 9th - 14th, 2006 Register Now!
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 Alex Pico or Scooter Morris.
Preliminary Schedule
MON October 9th |
Gladstone Conference Rooms A & B |
12:00PM-5:00PM |
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5:30 PM |
tour of local campus, then dinner on own |
TUE October 10th |
Gladstone Conference Rooms C & D (excluding 11:30-1:30) |
9:00AM-5:00PM |
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11:30PM or 1:30PM |
box lunch, then optional visit to Mission Bay Visitor Center |
WED October 11th |
Gladstone Auditorium |
Public Symposium |
Network-Based Approaches to Biological Data Integration and Analysis |
10:00AM-10:15AM |
Perspective by Guy Warner (Unilever, UK) |
10:15AM-11:00AM |
Patricia Babbitt (QB3/UCSF, San Francisco) |
11:00AM-11:45PM |
Gary Bader (University of Toronto) |
11:45PM-12:45PM |
Lunch Break - catered by Moffitt |
12:45PM-1:30PM |
Mirit Aladjem (National Cancer Inst, NIH) |
1:30PM-2:15PM |
Ilya Shmulevich (ISB, Seattle) |
2:15PM-2:30PM |
Break - coffee and light snacks |
2:30PM-3:15PM |
Benno Schwikowski (Institut Pasteur, Paris) |
3:15PM-4:00PM |
Trey Ideker (UCSD, San Diego) |
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Dinner |
6:00PM SAB & Board of Directors Meeting at Gladstone conference Room 403, takeout Thai food |
THU October 12th |
Genentech Hall Auditorium (Meeting Notes) |
9:00AM |
Introductory Remarks and Summary of Hackathon |
9:45AM |
MIMs Discussion |
11:00AM |
Birds of Feather Sessions |
12:00PM |
BBQ Lunch on the Quad, plus recess |
2:00PM |
The Tao of Cytoscape: Overview and Context for Expo |
2:30PM |
Plugin & Usage Expo (part I) |
3:30PM |
Coffee Break |
3:45PM |
Plugin & Usage Expo (part II) |
6:00PM |
Conference Dinner - Goat Hill Pizza, 300 Connecticut at 18th Street all you can eat and drink |
FRI October 13th |
Genentech Hall - Room N114 |
9:30AM |
Cytoscape 2.4 rundown |
10:30AM |
Organize Major Development Tasks and BreakoutGroups |
12:30PM |
Working Lunch - Burritos |
1:00PM |
BreakoutGroups Report |
1:00PM |
Parallel session of Board of Directors and SAB to discuss vision (Gladstone rm 403) |
3:00PM |
Work on RoadMap2006 / Match Core Developers to Action Items |
5:00PM |
Wrap-up: SAB Input, Board Issues & Future Vision |
5:45PM |
Dinner on own |
>5:30PM |
Option for de Young Museum Event http://www.thinker.org/deyoung/calendar/day.asp?day=10/13/2006 |
SAT October 14th |
In and Around San Francisco |
AM Hiking SF Coastal Trail to Land's End Beach with Bruce Conklin trail map http://www.josephstubbscreations.com/Home2/sf/sfparks/lincoln/lincoln.html |
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AM Touring the historic Mission District murals with Allan Kuchinsky: http://www.precitaeyes.org/tours.html |
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AM Swimming in the Bay with Scooter Morris |
Campus & Conference Rooms
University of California San Francisco, UCSF, Mission Bay Campus: http://pub.ucsf.edu/missionbay/
J. David Gladstone Institutes, Mission Bay: http://www.gladstone.ucsf.edu/gladstone/site/missionbay/
Genentech Hall - N114: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GEN%20-N114.html
Genentech Hall Auditorium: http://student.ucsf.edu/classrooms/classrooms/GenentechHallAuditorium.html
Gladstone Auditorium: 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 here.
Registration
This is a free event. Please use our online registration system: Register Now!
If you have any problems email Scooter Morris or Alex Pico.
Location
Mission Bay Campus University of California San Francisco 600 16th St. San Francisco, CA 94158
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:
$ The Powell Hotel --> 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
$ Hotel Mark Twain --> 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
$ Hotel Astoria - 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
$$ Cartwright Hotel - map
- Great neighborhood, just 5 blocks from UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
- Very nice rooms
$$$ Hotel Palomar - map
- Located 1 block from UCSF shuttle stop servicing Mission Bay
- Very, very nice rooms
Travel
We recommend San Francisco International Airport (SFO), as it is easily accessible to the city, and has numerous shuttles, taxis, car services and public transportation that serve all of its terminals. Your San Francisco hotel may be able to provide complimentary shuttle service to and from the airport. Car rentals are also available at the airport, with complimentary shuttle service to their rental facilities.
For more information regarding San Francisco International Airport, including maps of its terminals, visit their website: http://www.flysfo.com/
Transportation A number of shuttle services provide transportation to and from the airport. Any of the following agencies provide shuttle service that is easily accessible from any airport terminal, or hotel in San Francisco.
Public transportation, (Muni and BART), is easily accessible from the airport to anywhere within the city.
Airport Shuttles:
Super Shuttle Service: http://www.supershuttle.com/htm/cities/sfo.htm
Additional links to other available private and public transportation and shuttles : http://www.sftravel.com/shutl.html
Taxi Services- From the airport, and within San Francisco: http://www.zpub.com/sf/zsf-taxi.html *Fare from SFO to the city will range from $35-50
Public transportation services in San Francisco, including fares, routes, and schedules: Transit 511 Weblink: http://transit.511.org/index.asp
UCSF Mission Bay Shuttle Service - Free Service! UCSF provides free shuttle service from to and from all of its campuses throughout San Francisco, and public transportation. For more information and schedules, vist the weblink to the UCSF transportation website: http://www.campuslifeservices.ucsf.edu/transportation/shuttles/timetables/default.php
Example Trip Planner
SFO airport -to- Hotel: Take the public BART train running every 15 minutes from SFO to the Powell Street station. ~30 minute ride. BART Schedule
The Powell Hotel is literally on top of the Powell St. BART station, so you won't have to drag your bags far The other recommended hotels above are within a few blocks of this stop.
Hotel -to- Conference: It's a 12 minute ride to the Mission Bay campus via the free UCSF shuttle (Forest Line). The shuttle picks up near the Powell St BART station in front of Old Navy. It runs every 30 minutes in two shifts: AM = 7:00-10:05, and PM = 3:45-midnight. Shuttle Schedule
San Francisco Tourism
San Francisco boasts a rich multi-cultural history, and is a beautiful city with many local and area attractions that appeal to just about any type of traveler. While you are here, be sure to take in a few sights, and experience this unique city, or perhaps some of the beautiful attractions nearby, including Sausalito, Muir Woods, California wine country, or Alcatraz. Included below are some useful links to help you plan your visit to many of the local attractions. We hope you enjoy your visit to our great city!
http://onlyinsanfrancisco.com/ A full service guide and a good starting point for any visitor to San Francisco; includes restaurant listings, local events and links to tours and points of interest throughout the city.
http://www.buysanfranciscotours.com/ A useful link for checking into sightseeing and adventure tours available within the city of San Francisco, including cable car and trolley tours, as well as tours to Alcatraz, Muir Woods, and beautiful California wine country.
http://www.sfcablecar.com/ Your guide for planning a ride on one of San Francisco's famed historic cable cars. Includes routes and rates.
http://www.sfzoo.org/ A link to our zoo, located within the San Francisco city limits.
http://www.sfmission.com/entertain/webguide.htm A useful link for information and links to museums in San Francisco, including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the DeYoung Museum.
http://www.pier39.com/Media/MediaKit/profile.htm - official website for San Francisco's famous Pier 39 and Fisherman's Wharf - Famed Ghiradelli square is just steps away.
http://www.ghiradellisq.com - Official website to this historic landmark, including its famous chocolate shop and specialty stores and restaurants.
http://www.strictlybluegrass.com/ - Free music festival in Golden Gate Park the weekend before the Cytoscape Retreat. Fri-Sunday, with 3-4 stages going non-stop. Headliners include Emmylou Harris, Earl Scruggs, Gillian Welch, Elvis Costello and many more.