[Biojava-l] Biotechnology group?

[Eric Neumann]

Mathieu,

As I am an advisor to the group, I can help shed some light on this new
initiative. I3C has recently been formed to help investigate and utilize current
infortmatics standards (including LSR specifications, ebXML, Bio-Ontologies, and
W3C semantic web recommendations, etc.), as well as propose and implement life
science distributed architectures that will address the community's needs in a
timely and effective fashion. Through these application-focused implementations,
the group intends to recommend "guided de facto standards" in life science areas
of highest activity. I3C did begin at Sun, but more recently has grown to
include IBM, Oracle, BIO, and some other major technology groups and life
science vendors.

Tim Clark (MPI), Arkesh Mehta (BIO), Norm Walsh (Sun), myself, and a few others
are working together to develop  a roadmap defining our goals and activities
over the near to long term. Much of this should become public in the near
future. I see this initiative as a means to help utilize and coordinate the
ideas/specifications/tools advanced by other life science informatics groups. We
hope to have a presentation during the combined BOSC/BioPathways satellite
workshop at ISMB in Copenhagen this July, but details still need to be worked
out.

Eric

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Eric Neumann, PhD
VP Bioinformatics
Beyond Genomics
www.beyondgenomics.com

tel: 617-497-2233
fax: 617-497-2244
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"Wiepert, Mathieu" wrote:

> 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...?
>