The purpose of this meeting is to bring researchers together on various aspects of systems biology, including integration of genome-wide microarray, proteomic, and metabolomic data, inference and comparison of biological networks, and model testing through design of experiments. Systems Biology topics include:

• Pathway mapping and evolution in protein interaction networks
• Inference of protein signaling networks for understanding cellular responses and developmental programs
• Model prediction of drug mechanism of action and toxicity
• Multi-scale methods which bridge abstract and detailed models
• Systematic design of genome-scale experiments
• Modeling and recognition of regulatory elements
• Identification and modeling of cis-regulatory regions
• Modeling the structure and function of the regulatory region
• Comparative genomics of regulation.

This meeting continues the tradition of previous RECOMB Satellite workshops, which are focused events on topics of particular interest to the computational biology community.  

The meeting will be held at UC San Diego (CalIt2). It will run for 1.5 days, December 1-2. The program will include 5-6 invited talks from leading researchers and 10-15 contributed talks, which will be selected by a program committee.

The second annual meeting of the RECOMB Satellite on Systems Biology, chaired by Trey Ideker, will be held in conjunction with the biannual RECOMB Satellite on Computational Proteomics, chaired by Vineet Bafna.