From chemweb@ic.ac.uk Fri Mar 28 13:28:00 EST 1997 Date: Fri, 28 Mar 1997 18:24:29 GMT Message-Id: <199703281824.SAA12355@venus.ebi.ac.uk> From: Alan Robinson <alan@ebi.ac.uk> To: Multiple recipients of list <chemweb@ic.ac.uk> Subject: 97.06.18 Objects in Bioinformatics - Reusable Software Being a computational chemist by training, and having now moved from the field of molecular modelling to bioinformatics, I thought the following meeting that I'm organising might be of interest to the list since the themes are relevant to chemistry too, e.g. Java is redefining how many people think of software in terms of an object-oriented approach with libraries of reusable components, and distributed object technologies, such as CORBA, are providing new ways to access applications and data over networks and the WWW. Yours, Alan Robinson. ============================================================ Alan J. Robinson, D.Phil. 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 1RQ, UK http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/ ============================================================ -------------------------------------------------------------------- Objects in Bioinformatics- Reusable Software Components and Distributed Computing for the Biological Sciences. 18th and 19th June 1997, European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK. http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/Meeting/OiB.html Announcing a two day meeting on the role of reusable object-oriented software components and distributed objects in bioinformatics and biological sciences. The meeting will include lectures, presentations, poster sessions and discussion groups on the rapidly expanding and developing fields of software components and distributed computing from both an academic and industrial perspective. Invited talks will cover the application of reusable components, software libraries, distributed object technology, data visualisation and the bioWidget Consortium. Poster stands, each 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 meeting themes. We hope to have a prize for the best poster presentation. Full details about the meeting may be accessed at - http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/Meeting/OiB.html The meeting is organised by the European Bioinformatics Institute in association with the bioWidget Consortium. The meeting will be held in the newly completed conference facilities at the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus in the grounds of Hinxton Hall, Cambridge, UK. The cost of registration for the meeting has been kept as low as possible with a nominal fee of 25 GBP. [][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][][]