[Biocorba-l] physical mapping applications and CORBA

[Jason Stajich]

On Fri, 1 Jun 2001, Alan Robinson wrote:

> 
> There is an RHdb CORBA server with clients available at the EBI:
> 
>   http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/RHdb/index.html
> 
>   http://corba.ebi.ac.uk/RHdb/RHdb_CORBA.html
> 
> The IDL was developed in collaboration with Infobiogen.
> 
> Unfortunately, the implementation of the OMG spec (which uses aspects of
> the RHdb IDL), fell between the cracks for a number of reasons.
> 
> I believe Jason Stajich is also interested in mapping being included in
> biocorba/bioperl (at least that's what he said during the biojava
> workshop).
> 

Yes, yes, yes.  Would like to see either some movement on Philip et
al's OMG submission.  Problem is, we (bio{*}) have only begun to
*think* about building the objects in the specific languages.  But this
could be a top down approach since there are at least use cases in Rhdb.

I'd love to see some movement here and have a project that I would like
tie in to a standard Mapping interface.  

> 
> So some groundwork is there, it just needs motivated individuals to pick
> it up again!! ;)
> 
> 
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> 
> On Wed, 30 May 2001, Chris Fjell wrote:
> 
> > We've released a new Java application/applet for viewing physical 
> > mapping data (BAC clones, contigs, fingerprints, etc), accessible at 
> > http://ice.bcgsc.bc.ca.
> > 
> > I'm interested in developing a CORBA server and client extension to this 
> > application but I've not had any experience in CORBA, and I don't want 
> > to duplicate existing work.
> > 
> > Is anyone working on BioCORBA for physical mapping data? I believe that 
> > OMG has a defined interface at some stage of development but I can't 
> > find evidence of anyone using it.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Chris Fjell
> > Programmer/Analyst - Genome Sequence Center, BC Cancer Agency
> > 600 W 10th Avenue, Vancouver BC V5Z 4E6
> > 
> > email: cfjell@bcgsc.bc.ca
> > fax: (604) 877-6085   
> > www: http://www.bcgsc.bc.ca
> > 
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Jason Stajich
jason@chg.mc.duke.edu
Center for Human Genetics
Duke University Medical Center 
http://www.chg.duke.edu/