FORMAT:
Discussion Panel with short talks (10 minutes each, just to introduce a theme) and a general discussion with the audience (30-50 minutes)

ELEMENTS:

	Ignacio Medina Centro de Investigacion Principe Felipe Valencia Spain
	Jose Maria Carazo Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia Madrid Spain
	Josep Lluis Gelpí Barcelona Supercomputing Center Barcelona Spain
	Modesto Orozco Barcelona Supercomputing Center Barcelona Spain
	Paolo Ribeca Centro Nacional de Anàlisis Genómico Barcelona Spain
	Justin Paschall European Genome Archive EBI Hinxton U.K.

The distribution of sub-themes to each of the above speakers is being arranged by the chairs. A more detailed session program will be made available in the BIOSTEC 2013 website. A single page A4 document with this information will be made available to the special session participants, in the meeting room.

ADMISSION: the special session will be open to participants in the BIOSTEC 2013 at no additional fee. It will also be open to additional participants for a special fee of Euro 210,00 (Euro 230 if it includes the lunch of Feb 13th). For further questions regarding registration, please contact the conference secretariat at bioinformatics.secretariat@insticc.org