Objects in Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2001 Call for Participation.

Business/Technology Editors

NEEDHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 22, 2001

Objects In Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2001 (OiBC-2001), hosted by the Object Management Group's Life Science Research Domain Task Force (OMG LSR DTF) will be held at the Sheraton Ferncroft Hotel, Danvers, Massachusetts, USA on July 9 and 10, 2001.

This two-day conference will focus on the role of object-oriented technology, reusable software components, design patterns, and distributed computing in life sciences research. The overall theme of the conference is sharing best practices for implementing object-based systems for bioinformatics, cheminformatics, and related disciplines. Conference scope includes object modeling and implementation, independent of platform or language.

The OiBC Program Committee is currently seeking papers and posters reporting original research and development of object-oriented software and systems, the role of object-oriented technology, reusable software components, design patterns, and distributed computing in life sciences research.

Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include:

- Bioinformatics and Genomics

- Cheminformatics

- Combinatorial libraries and drug design

- Computational chemistry

- Functional genomics

- Information and data management for high-throughput experimental biology

- Macromolecular structure

- Molecular sequence analysis

- Pharmacogenomics

- Proteomics

- Object-Oriented Modeling, Design, and Ontologies for these disciplines

-Efficient object and data stores for any of the disciplines listed above

- Advantages and return on investment of object-oriented technologies

- Development and application of open standards for information representation and software interoperability

Demonstrations of interoperability in systems using components from two or more sources are particularly encouraged, either as posters or as platform talks.

For more information about the Call for Participation and how to submit a presentation or poster proposal by May 7, 2001, see the OiBC web site at http://www.omg.org/lsr/oibc/.

About The OMG

With the support of its membership of software vendors, software developers and end users, the OMG's CORBA is "The Middleware That's Everywhere(TM)." Since 1989, the OMG has been "Setting The Standards For Distributed Computing(TM)" through its mission to promote the theory and practice of object technology for the development of distributed computing systems. The goal is to provide a common architectural framework for object-oriented applications based on widely available interface specifications. The OMG is headquartered in Needham, MA, USA, with an office in Tokyo, Japan as well as international marketing offices in Bahrain, Germany, India, and the UK, along with a U.S. government representative in Washington, DC, USA. The OMG is also a major sponsor of the Integrate 2001 trade show and conference, which will be held September 19-21, 2001 in New York City.

For information on joining the OMG or additional information, please contact OMG headquarters by phone at [phone], by fax at [phone], or by email at [e-mail]. The OMG provides current information and services for Distributed Object Computing through The Information Brokerage(R) on the World Wide Web at www.omg.org and at www.corba.org. Information about OMG Japan can be found at www.omgj.org.

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