 All reviewed by PC and partner journals - Very fast turn around time: 6 weeks - Appear during meeting or soon thereafter  17 accepted for talks and in partner journals: - 8 in PLoS Comp Bio, 9 in PLoS ONE 50 paper submissions  Reviewed by 16 session chairs + 4 conference chairs  50 oral presentations / 200 poster presentations 250 abstract submissions  3 challenges, 53 teams, 7 best-performer talks 432 DREAM challenge predictions  Selected by conference chairs, pioneers combining biology & computation 17 invited speakers Scientific program

Truly international  27 countries 144 students 109 postdocs 113 faculty 25 volunteers 22 invited 15 industry 5 press United States314 Germany16 Finland14 Canada13 Italy11 Belgium9 Israel8 Switzerland7 United Kingdom6 Taiwan5 Netherlands4 China3 Poland3 Singapore3 Sweden3 Austria2 Denmark2 Egypt2 Estonia2 Ireland2 Korea, Republic of2 New Zealand2 Australia1 France1 Greece1 Japan1 Luxembourg1 Russian Federation1 Balance between PIs, postdocs, students. Press/industry presence

Scientific content Local organization Most attend all 3 Meeting survey -236 responders - hundreds of comments/suggestions - Strong positive feedback - Need more coffee Outstanding Good Average Poor

Meeting size and composition Merge completely Keep joint but distinct Okay to split Strongly smaller Smaller Bigger Strongly bigger Fine as is Meeting size appropriate Joint meeting preferred Good CS/Bio balance Very strong computation Average-Strong biology

Keynotes Papers Oral Q&A Posters Breaks Outstanding GoodAverage Poor Time management: Need more time on everything

Manolis Kellis, MIT Andrea Califano, Columbia Ziv Bar-Joseph, CMUGustavo Stolovitsky, IBM Regulatory Genomics Systems Biology DREAM Regulatory Genomics