12 - 14 December 2012

Milan, Italy

All the participants (43) from all over Europe gathered for lunch in time in the hotel lounge.

Shortly after 14:00 Andreas Gisel, the local organiser, opened the event with a welcome to all participants and the information that the chair Erik Boncgam-Rudloff because of illness was not able to join. However, via Skpe he was able to greet all and wished the workshop community a successful event.

After this virtual greeting of the chair, Andreas Gisel was introducing in a few words the concept, idea and goal of the AllBio Project.

Laurent Falquet then guided the presentations of the 15 selected test cases which already stimulated the participants for interesting discussions. Tomorrow the community will be ready for the 'work' to thoroughly analyse and disect the presented test cases to discuss the further processes for the solution of some of these test cases.

The big discussion day started with the splitting of the participants into 4 moderated groups analysing the selected test cases according to the following brought topics:

• data formats / standardization and workflows - (Jacques)
• scalability of tools (multi genome comparison/data compression) - (Laurent)
• non model organisms and multiploidy - (Paul)
• visualization and training – (Andreas)