Dear chemwebers, If you develop in Java or use CORBA (and other object-oriented and web technologies), I hope the following conference may be of interest to you. Yours sincerely, Alan Robinson. -- --ooOOoo-- Objects in Bioinformatics '98 Object-Oriented Technology, Reusable Software Components and Distributed Computing for the Life Sciences. ***************************** http://www.ebi.ac.uk/oib98/ ***************************** 3rd and 4th August, 1998. Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, near Cambridge, UK. Following last years successful OiB-97 conference, OiB-98 has been set for August 3rd-4th, 1998. The conference is organised by the European Bioinformatics Institute and will be held in the conference facilities at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, UK. 'Objects in Bioinformatics' focuses upon the role of object-oriented technology, reusable software components, design patterns and distributed computing in bioinformatics and the biological sciences. The conference is aimed at those who are interested in, are developing, or have developed object-oriented software that will be of use to the bioinformatics and biological community in both academia and industry. The conference aims to address the problems now facing our scientific community of: o Heterogeneous computing environments o Effective standards for the representation of data o The distributed nature of applications, resources and data across computer networks (i.e. intranets, extranets and the Internet) o The ever-present data deluge that is hitting biology o The development of tools and resources to aid the biologist and bioinformatician A theme of this year's conference will be the implication and application of distributed object technology (such as CORBA) to biology and bioinformatics, and the work of the Life Sciences Research Task Force of the Object Management Group in promoting standards. The conference will include lectures and poster sessions on the rapidly expanding and developing fields of object-oriented software and distributed computing from both an academic and industrial perspective. Invited talks will cover the application of reusable components, tools, software libraries, distributed object technology and the role of Life Sciences Research Task Force. Speakers will also include specialists from outside the domain of biology that have already experienced our current problems. Poster stands (including a limited number with a dedicated networked computer), are available upon which delegates may showcase their work and projects. Participants are encouraged to submit a brief abstract for a poster relevant to the conference themes to promote and display their work in the field, and fuel dialogue. In the same spirit as OiB-97 , the cost of registration for the conference has been kept as low as possible with a nominal fee of 50 GBP for early registration. The closing date for early registration and submission of abstracts is July 1st, 1998. Late registration will be possible from July 2nd onwards, however the registration fee will increase to 100 GBP. N.B. Following OiB-98, the Life Sciences Research (LSR) group will be holding a technical meeting with work groups where efforts will continue in encouraging the formation of domain standards. Interested OiB participants are encouraged to attend these (and other) meetings of the LSR group, although numbers will be limited for logistic reasons. Registration for this meeting is separate from OiB - details can be found in the group's web pages. Details of registration and accommodation may be found at the conference Web site - http://www.ebi.ac.uk/oib98/ Yours sincerely, Alan Robinson. -- ============================================================ Alan J. Robinson Tel:+44-(0)1223 494625 EMBL Outstation Fax:+44-(0)1223 494468 European Bioinformatics Institute Email: alan@ebi.ac.uk Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/ ============================================================ chemweb: A list for Chemical Applications of the Internet. To post to list: mailto:chemweb@ic.ac.uk Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/chemweb/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@ic.ac.uk the following message; (un)subscribe chemweb List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@ic.ac.uk)