[Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA Spec

[Martin Senger]

> 
> I was rading the BSANE pages and noticed that it has now been merged
> with the bioCORBA spec.
> 
> Can any one tell me the current status of this?
>
   I can explain what is the history and what are the plans. The BSANE
specification was submitted joinly by EBI and NetGenics (now part of
Lion). Later was a succesful "merging" discussion between biocorba and
this spec - and Juha Muilu (from EBI) updated BSANE pages to reflect the
agreement. The plan was to present the changed BSANE to LSR (Life Sciences
Research task force where the request for BSANE started) this June and let
LSR (OMG) "blessed" the spec. However, because of new project at EBI,
because Juha is moving somewhere else, and because the agreement was only
about sequence objects (and BSANE originally asked for more), the EBI
decided *not* to present it - which in reality means that the BSANE will
be forgotten (unless something dramatically happens).

 
> The reason I ask is I'm looking around for existing standards for
> Bioinformatics types.
> 
   Look, for example, into bioMobby (but I am not familiar with it, so
forgive me if I am giving a wrong direction).

   Martin

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