[Biojava-l] Biotechnology group?

[Wiepert, Mathieu]

I recently read an article in the Washington Post, a blurb follows. 

"The new coalition, led by the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO), a
Washington trade group, plans to spend the next year or so creating a
detailed specification for biological data. This specification would be
available without fee to any company or scientist that wanted to use it to
help organize and mine information."

I am somewhat naïve in all the larger groups organizations, but is there any
relation between this and the LSR at OMG?  There was talk last week in the
group on ontologies, this looks like yet another group looking at this...?