From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Mon Jul 1 09:32:21 2002 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with SMTP id 4196F17B62 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:32:14 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id F212017B72 for ; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:32:03 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id D679617B69; Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:31:20 +0100 (BST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7752C17B8B for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:24:47 +0100 (BST) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id EDD4B17ACC; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:24:43 +0100 (BST) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: W.David.Benton@gsk.com Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Call for Participation: Objects in Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2002, November 18-19, Washington, DC Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9A24F17B95 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:24:39 +0100 (BST) X-Received: from ns02.sbphrd.com (ns02.sbphrd.com [208.198.64.2]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D58617B94 for ; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 19:24:31 +0100 (BST) X-Received: by ns02.sbphrd.com; id OAA17087; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:24:29 -0400 (EDT) X-Received: from unknown(139.136.64.5) by ns02.sbphrd.com via smap (V5.0) id xma017081; Fri, 28 Jun 02 14:24:28 -0400 X-Received: from uksmtp01.ha.uk.sbphrd.com (uksmtp01.ha.uk.sbphrd.com [139.136.216.185]) by phinet.sbphrd.com (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA03039; Fri, 28 Jun 2002 14:24:25 -0400 (EDT) X-To: bionews@net.bio.net, corba-announce@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, xml-dev@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, microarray@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, developers@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, bioperl-announce-l@bioperl.org, biocorba-announce-l@biocorba.org, biojava-l@biojava.org, bioxml-announce-l@bioxml.org, biopython-announce-l@biopython.org, chemweb@ic.ac.uk, bioinformatics@sdsc.edu, lifesciences@omg.org, chemistry@ccl.net X-Cc: oibc-abstracts@omg.org X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.3 (Intl) 21 March 2000 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router on UKSMTP01/SERVERS/PHRD/SB_PLC(Release 5.0.5 |September 22, 2000) at 28/06/2002 19:24:25, Serialize complete at 28/06/2002 19:24:25 Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:31:20 +0100 (BST) X-Razor-id: 4988c768a4c8816c8e3ad94c979664e45213d126 Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk We apologize to anyone who receives more than one copy of this message. Please pass this call along to all your interested colleagues. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION OBJECTS IN BIO- & CHEM-INFORMATICS 2002 (OiBC-2002) Theme: "Best Practices & Lessons Learned" 18-19 November 2002 Washington, DC, USA Organized by the Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force (LSR DTF) Sponsored by the Object Management Group (OMG) and IONA Technologies Following in the tradition of the successful 'Objects in Bioinformatics' conferences in 1997, '98, and '99, and OiBC-2001, Objects in Bio- & Chem-Informatics 2002 will be held at the Crystal Gateway Marriott Hotel in Arlington, VA (across the Potomac from Washington, DC) on November 18 and 19, 2002. The overall theme of the conference is sharing best practices for implementing object-based systems for life sciences research. Conference scope includes object modeling and implementation, independent of platform or language. The audience will be interested in reports detailing "real life" examples where current object technologies and languages have been applied to significant life sciences research problems. Papers and posters reporting on 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 are sought. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Typical but not exclusive topics of interest include: * Bioinformatics and Genomics * Cheminformatics * Combinatorial libraries and drug design * Computational chemistry * Functional genomics * Macromolecular structure * Molecular sequence analysis * Pharmacogenomics and Clinical genomics * Proteomics and Transcriptomics, including Gene Expression * Systems biology * Biological pathways and networks * Laboratory information management * Electronic laboratory notebooks * Information and data management for high-throughput experimental biology * Algorithms and Object-Oriented Modeling, Design, and Ontologies for these disciplines * Efficient object and data respositories for any of the disciplines listed above * Grid technology and distributed computing in the life sciences * Open source efforts in bio- and chem-informatics * Development and application of open standards for data and software interoperability * Advantages and return on investment of object-oriented technologies Demonstrations of interoperability in systems using components from two or more sources are particularly encouraged, either as posters or as platform talks. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION: Authors should submit their extended abstracts electronically to: oibc-abstracts@omg.org Questions regarding submissions may also be sent to this address. In your covering email, please clearly state the name, email address, and phone number of the corresponding author; the presentation title; and your preference for presentation (platform talk, poster, or demonstration). Abstracts must be received by September 16, 2002, 23:59 local time. This is a firm deadline. Early submissions are encouraged. ABSTRACT PREPARATION: The submitted abstract should include a title and the authors' names, institutional affiliations, and email addresses. Additional address, telephone, and web site information may be included, but is not required. The abstract text should begin with a succinct (one-paragraph) statement of the problem, the results achieved, their significance and a comparison with previous work. This material should be understandable to non-specialists. A technical exposition directed to the specialist should follow. The length, including tables and bibliography, if any, should not exceed 5 pages. The manuscript should be easy to read, using at least 11 point font size, single spaced, and formatted for U.S. standard 8 1/2 by 11 inch paper with no less than one inch margin all around. Figures, if required, should be in the native format supported by the abstract file format (see below) or GIF, JPEG, or PNG. Figures are not included in the five-page length limit and should be numbered consecutively according to their order of reference in the main text. The abstract should be submitted in one of the following file formats: Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word, Plain ASCII text, or HTML. Abstracts that deviate significantly from these guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. NOTIFICATION: The conference submissions will be refereed by the program committee and each appropriate presentation will be accepted as either a platform presentation or as a poster presentation. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection and of presentation type (platform or poster) by electronic mail on or before October 8, 2002. Any revisions to an accepted abstract must be received by October 22, 2002. An author of each accepted paper is expected to register for and attend the Conference and present the paper or poster; otherwise alternative arrangements should be made to have the paper or poster presented. CALENDAR: Deadline for abstract submission: September 16, 2002 Author notification: October 8, 2002 Deadline for revised abstract submission: October 22, 2002 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: Extended abstracts and presentation slides will be available on the OiBC-2002 web site (http://lsr.omg.org/oibc2002/) following the conference. MORE INFORMATION: For more information about this event, check the OiBC web site: http://lsr.omg.org/oibc2002/. To learn about the mission and initiatives of the OMG's LSR DTF see: http://lsr.omg.org --- .