PURPOSE
The 1st workgroup meeting will take place the 21st,22nd,23rd of July at the European Center for Living Technology (ECLT), Venice, Italy.
 
The workgroup meeting should seek to deliver:
•    Roadmap for the implementation of CRAACC, including identifying international advisory board (in addition to the founding board), extra sources of funding and plan of action for the following twelve months (including a follow up meeting of the executive committee for CRAACC, to be formed by Krasnogor, Cronin, Davis, Bedau and other participants to this first meeting).
•    Draft protocol for the implementation of the artificial chemical cell imitation game.
•    A brief co-authored paper describing CRAACC, to be submitted to Nature/Science within 1 month of the end of the meeting. The CHELLnet partners have already sent a “commentary” paper to Nature Biotech that is under revision. We intend to extend that commentary into a full blown paper with technical details and rules for participating in the first CRAACC and the date of its implementation.

PROGRAM

Thursday, July 20, 2006

10:00 - 11:00    Introductory meeting:
N. Krasnogor: General Introduction
M. Bedau:  “CRAACC concept, goals overview, admin matters”
11:00 - 11:30    Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30 Split up sessions: 10 minutes “teaser” presentation by Bedau/Krasnogor
and Subgroup discussions addressing “functional definitions of container, metabolism, information & computation in the context of cellularity”.
12:30 - 13:00 Subgroups input collection & general discussions
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 - 16:00 Split up sessions Addressing : “Container-Metabolism Interface”, “Container-Information & Computation”, “Metabolism-Information & Computation Interface”
16:00 - 16:20    Short break
16:20 - 17:50 Subgroups input collection & general discussions: “Addressing the Interface Container-Metabolism-Information & Computation”
17:50 Any other business, agenda changes for 2nd day & break for the day

Friday, July 21, 2006

09:00 – 10:00 D. Harel, “Comprehensive and Realistic Modeling: A Challenge and a Test for Systems Biology”
10:00 - 11:00    1st Brainstorm Session: “Milestones towards Artificial Chemical Cells”
11:00 - 11:30    Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00    2nd Brainstorm Session: “Measurable Milestones towards Artificial Chemical Cell”
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:45 A. Valencia, “Organization, observations, complications, and outcome of the protein structure prediction (CASP & EVA) and text mining (BioCreative) experiences”
15:45 – 16:00    Short break
16:00 - 17:00 General Session: “Roadmap to CRAACC”
17:00 - 18:00 General Session: “CRAACC Protocol”
18:00 Any other business, agenda changes for 3rd day & break for the day

Saturday, July 22, 2006

10:00 – 11:00 General Session: “Pratical Matters”
•    Funding opportunities
•    Task allocation to funding board
•    Outreach activities
•    Other administrative, managerial issues arising from roadmap and protocol
•    Follow up meeting
11:00 - 11:30    Coffee break
11:30 - 12:30    Continuation of “Pratical Matters”
12:30 - 13:00 Round up and end of 1st CRAACC workgroup meeting
13:00 - 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Workgroup chairs Bedau and Krasnogor to initiate drafting of Science / Nature paper reporting outcomes for 1st workgroup meeting.