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PSB 2026 — Workshops

Five workshops ran alongside the peer-reviewed program. They are not peer-reviewed — invited-speaker format — but each publishes a short introduction in the proceedings (pp. 849–868), so the topics and organizers are citable.

The site undercounts these

The PSB post-event page and workshop page both say "four workshops." The preface, the proceedings table of contents, and the schedule all show five, and five introductions are published. Five is correct.

1. Advances of AI Methods in Single Cell Spatial Omics

Organizers: Lana Garmire · Xiuwei Zhang (Georgia Tech) · Joshua Levy Slot: Saturday, January 3, 1:00–4:45 p.m., Salon 2 & 3 Introduction: pp. 849–851 · workshop_advances.pdf · PMID 41758189 Site: https://sites.google.com/view/ai-spatial-omics-psb2026

Spatial transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics. This is where PSB 2026's single-cell and spatial content actually lives — the peer-reviewed sessions contain almost none (see Themes). For this corpus, that makes the workshop introduction and its agenda the highest-value item in this file.

2. AI for Health: Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Revolutionize Healthcare

Organizers: Ruowang Li · Tiffani Bright · Brian D. Davison · Lifang He Introduction: pp. 852–854 · workshop_aiforhealth.pdf · PMID 41758190 Site: https://ruowangli.github.io/psb_workshop_2026

The clinical-AI companion to session S4.

3. Applications of AI & ML in Biomanufacturing of Cell and Gene Therapies

Organizers: Eric Neumann · Karen Weisinger · Tom Londo Introduction: pp. 855–858 · workshop_appaiml.pdf · PMID 41758191

Manufacturing rather than discovery — the part of the cell-and-gene-therapy pipeline the corpus's trial-focused vaults (sitc-2026/trials/) do not cover. Pairs with the AAV2 capsid design paper in S2.

4. The Evolving Cyberinfrastructure at the NIH to Support Data and AI in Biomedical Research

Organizers: Ojas A. Ramwala · Nick Weber · Sean D. Mooney Introduction: pp. 859–864 · workshop_evolving.pdf · PMID 41758192 Site: https://weber-nick.github.io/psb-2026/

Policy and platform infrastructure — worth tracking for anyone whose data access depends on NIH-hosted resources.

5. Trust, Reproducibility, and Progress: The Roles of Independent Blind Prediction and Assessment and Benchmarking in Computational Biology

Organizers: Gaia Andreoletti · Serghei Mangul · Mark Robinson · Predrag Radivojac · Steven E. Brenner Introduction: pp. 865–868 · workshop_trust.pdf · PMID 41758193

The intellectual counterweight to the rest of the meeting. Blind assessment (the CASP/CAFA tradition) as the answer to benchmark inflation. Read alongside the negative-result and benchmark papers in S4, and against the corpus's own evaluation material in Reading an FM paper critically.

Materials

Only two workshops posted agenda PDFs (Workshop-AI_ML_in_Biomanufacturing_agenda.pdf, Workshop5_Agenda_v2.pdf). No slide repository exists for any of the five. Speaker lists are not published on the workshop page — the introductions in the proceedings are the best available record.

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