- 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
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- 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
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- 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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