This workshop is organized by Prof. Upinder Bhalla at the National Centre for Biological Sciences (NCBS), Bangalore, India. It is designed to serve two primary roles: 1. To introduce basic issues and concepts in neuroinformatics and multi-scale interactions in biology to Indian students and researchers. 2. To promote the definition of model exchange standards for multi-scale systems in biology.

To achieve these goals, the workshop is structured with open sessions where students and other scientists are welcome to attend and participate; and brief closed sessions for each theme where the invited scientists will collate user requirements for each level of multi-scale modeling. In addition, the first two days will have public lectures. Finally, the third day of the workshop will be entirely devoted to model exchange definition work among the invitees.