Introduction of Section: Breakout Session Reports

Breakout Session Report

On Thursday November 19, 2008 a breakout session was held in Room B1 of the Ouaga 2000 Conference Center on the following theme: New developments in cotton ginning. The session began at 2:00 pm and ended at 3:40 pm. The meeting was well attended and the discussions were frank and direct. Four speakers were on the agenda but there were in fact three presentations, as the fourth speaker was unabl...

WaSABi 2014: Breakout Brainstorming Session Summary

A key program point of the 2nd International Workshop on Semantic Web Enterprise Adoption and Best Practice (WaSABi 2014) was the breakout brainstorming session, at which challenges regarding enterprise adoption of Semantic Web technologies were discussed, and potential solutions to some of those challenges described. The requested output of this session was for each group of 5 people to produc...

Information Integration Research: Summary of NSF IDM Workshop Breakout Session

Session Introduction

Precision medicine promises to transform cancer treatment in the next decade through the use of high-throughput sequencing and other technologies to identify telltale molecular aberrations that reveal therapeutic vulnerabilities of each patient’s tumor [1]. This session will address the "panomics" of cancer – the complex combination of patient-specific characteristics that drive the development...

Session Introduction

The field of molecular modeling has long recognized modeling the folding, assembly, and long-time dynamics of large macromolecules as its biggest challenge, since it is precisely at large size and long time scales that computational methods are most taxed. In response, many methods have been developed to reduce the computational cost by coarsening the granularity of the problem. Inevitably accu...