SBOL Developers meet for 6th SBOL Workshop

January 5-6, 2012 University of Washington Seattle, WA Outcomes of the 6th SBOL Workshop, Seattle 2012 - Demonstrated successful exchange of SBOL v1.0.0 data using libSBOLxml - Received feedback on use of SBOL visual - Needed is a statement of values of SBOL community - Recommended a single serialization - Nominated 2 additional SBOL editors, for 5 editors total - Elected Herbert Sauro as chair of SBOL - Recommended to establish extension working groups - Established centralized test case management Deadlines agreed to: - Specification revisions due Friday 1/27/2012 - Java library and XSD due in 1 month - Call for SBOL v1.1.0 ratification vote - Mon 1/30/2012 following release of final pdf on 1/27/12 Thirty-three SBOL developers met at the University of Washington, Seattle to discuss the development of SBOL extensions. The workshop was attended by U.S. and U.K. academic researchers as well as industry representatives. Allan Kuchinsky (Agilent Technologies) Cesar Rodriguez (Genome Compiler) Chris Myers (University of Utah) Darren Platt (Amyris Biotechnologies) Jackie Quinn (Harvard University) Nicholas Roehner (University of Utah) Carlos Olguin (Autodesk) Guy-Bart Stan (Imperial College London) Daniel Cook (University of Washington) Jake Beal (BBN Technologies) Richard Kitney (Imperial College London) Deepak Chandran (University of Washington) Marc Juul Christoffersen (BIOFAB) Raik Grünberg (University of Montreal) Jeff Johnson (University of Washington) Cassie Huang (Boston University) Yizhi (Patrick) Cai (Johns Hopkins) John Gennari (University of Washington) Doug Densmore (Boston University) Sridhar Ranganathan (Life Technologies) Kyung Kim (University of Washington) Ernst Oberortner (Boston University) Anil Wipat (Newcastle University) Wilbert Copeland (University of Washington) Swapnil Bhatia (Boston University) Goksel Misirli (Newcastle University) Michal Galdzicki (University of Washington) Evren Sirin (Clark & Parsia) Matthew Pocock (Newcastle University) Herbert Sauro (University of Washington) Alan Villalobos (DNA2.0) Drew Endy (Stanford University & BIOFAB) Mandy Wilson (Virginia Bioinformatics Institute)