- Dublin, Ireland, OMG meeting, 12 - 15 November 2001:
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 10-13 September 2001:
- Adoption of the LECIS
revised submission was recommended by vote of the OMG Domain Technology Committee and the OMG Business
Committee. The final step to adoption of this important specification is the vote by the OMG Board of
Directors.
- The Gene Expression
interim revised submission was presented. The Gene Expression submitters (under difficult circumstances)
held a "Coding Jamboree" in Toronto (and, by teleconference, elsewhere) following the LSR meeting and worked
on open-source implementations of the Gene Expression specification in Java, C++, and Perl.
- The Chemical
Structure Access and Representation (CSAR)
interim revised submission was presented.
- The
LSR Workflow Working group continued to analyze the problem space and began drafting an RFP for
Laboratory Workflow.
- Dr. A. Jamie Cuticchia (Bioinformatics Supercomputing Centre, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto) gave a
special scientific presentation "Genome Data Base: Status and Development"
- Boston, MA, 9 - 13 July 2001:
- Very successful
OBJECTS IN BIO- & CHEM-INFORMATICS 2001 conference took place
- The LECIS
revised submission was presented and approved by the LSR
plenary and by the Architecture Board. Now the DTC is voting on it.
It is very likely that soon the LSR will have another adopted specification.
- The Gene Expression
revised submission was presented.
- The logo contest successfully selected a winner from the 11 proposals.
All proposals are available.
- The
LSR Workflow Working group re-started its activities.
- Chemical Sample Management RFI
was issued
- Discussion of Informatics Interoperable Infrastructure Consortium (I3C)
started.
- Paris, France, 24 - 26 April 2001
-
- Presentations
- The plenary agreed on a (small) modification of the
LSR mission statement.
The new text better reflects new trends in the OMG, particulary the new
MDA (Model Driven architecture) approach.
- A new Request for Information (RFI) in the life sciences research was issued!
The primary reason for issuing a new
RFI is to take advantage of the
OMG's new Model Driven Architecture (MDA). By leveraging its modeling
specifications, such as UML, the OMG has significantly broadened its
architectural approach. New technology submissions will be required to
have a middleware-independent model, with one or more corresponding
models for specific middleware platforms such as CORBA, Enterprise Java
Beans, XML, or SOAP.
RFI submissions are due by 20 August 2001. There's also an early
consideration deadline of 18 June 2001.
- Irvine, California, 26 February - 2 March 2001
-
- Presentations
- Bibliographic Query Service and Macromolecular Structure, both
became the adopted specifications. The corresponding FTFs
(BQS,
MMS)
were created.
- Don't miss new trends: OMG is moving to the
Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
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