From owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Wed Oct 31 02:08:18 2001 Return-Path: Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5098E17CAB for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:08:16 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEF1617B32 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:08:12 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 6022) id A885017A74; Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:08:06 +0000 (GMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA29417AC0 for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:50:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix, from userid 60001) id 751D717B0C; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:50:51 +0000 (GMT) To: bionet-announce@net.bio.net From: W.David.Benton@gsk.com Newsgroups: bionet.announce Subject: Life Sciences Standards for the 21st Century Organization: BIOSCI/MRC Human Genome Mapping Project Resource Centre Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 0072618A85256AF5_=" X-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12E6917C5C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:50:48 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: from ns02.sbphrd.com (ns02.sbphrd.com [208.198.64.2]) by mercury.hgmp.mrc.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFE7917B0C for ; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 20:50:40 +0000 (GMT) X-Received: by ns02.sbphrd.com; id PAA19395; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:50:38 -0500 (EST) X-Received: from unknown(139.136.64.5) by ns02.sbphrd.com via smap (V5.0) id xma019251; Tue, 30 Oct 01 15:50:17 -0500 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 PAA23044; Tue, 30 Oct 2001 15:50:22 -0500 (EST) X-To: bionews@net.bio.net, corba-announce@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, xml-dev@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk, microarray@alpha1.ebi.ac.uk 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 30/10/2001 20:50:16, Serialize complete at 30/10/2001 20:50:16 Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2001 02:08:06 +0000 (GMT) Sender: owner-bionews@hgmp.mrc.ac.uk Precedence: bulk This is a multipart message in MIME format. --=_alternative 0072618A85256AF5_= Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [with apologies to everyone who receives more copies of this invitation than desired] Colleagues: Five minutes to change the world (of life science software)! The OMG Life Sciences Research (LSR) Domain Task Force (see: http://lsr.omg.org) provides an open forum for the collaborative development of standards and specifications to support software and information interoperation. To date, the LSR has developed standards for (and LSR members and others have developed implementations of) sequence analysis, genomic maps, macromolecular structures, bibliographic search, and laboratory instrument control. Additional work is underway in the areas of chemical structures, gene expression, and laboratory workflow. We are interested in addressing the areas of greatest interest and need for interoperability in the life sciences research community. We have, therefore, developed a brief "Industry Survey" to seek your advice in identifying and prioritizing topics for future standards development work. This survey is intended for everyone interested in improved life sciences research software: commercial and academic; developers, vendors, and software users; OMG members and non-members. Survey answers will be kept confidential and only presented in statistical summary. So, here's how you can help create better software for life science research: please take a few minutes to go to http://lsr.ebi.ac.uk/survey/survey_form.html and give your answers to the questions there. And please share this invitation with your interested colleagues. Thank you very much, David Benton, GlaxoSmithKline, LSR Co-Chair James Fry, Pfizer, LSR Cheminformatics Working Group Co-Chair Doug Greer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, LSR Macromolecular Structure Working Group Chair Karl Konnerth, Incyte Genomics, LSR Co-Chair Scott Markel, NetGenics, LSR Co-Chair Tony Parsons, Pfizer, LSR LECIS Working Goup, Co-Chair Thorsten Richter, Creon-Lab-Control, LSR LECIS Working Goup, Co-Chair Richard Scott, De Novo Pharmaceuticals, LSR Cheminformatics Working Group Co-Chair Martin Senger, European Bioinformatics Institute, LSR Workflow Working Group Chair Torsten Staab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LSR LECIS Working Group Co-Chair Charles Troup, Agilent, LSR Gene Expression Working Group Chair --=_alternative 0072618A85256AF5_= Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
[with apologies to everyone who receives more copies of this invitation than desired]
Colleagues:

Five minutes to change the world (of life science software)!

The OMG Life Sciences Research (LSR) Domain Task Force (see: http://lsr.omg.org) provides an open forum for the collaborative development of standards and specifications to support software and information interoperation. To date, the LSR has developed standards for (and LSR members and others have developed implementations of) sequence analysis, genomic maps, macromolecular structures, bibliographic search, and laboratory instrument control. Additional work is underway in the areas of chemical structures, gene expression, and laboratory workflow.

We are interested in addressing the areas of greatest interest and need for interoperability in the life sciences research community.  We have, therefore, developed a brief "Industry Survey" to seek your advice in identifying and prioritizing topics for future standards development work.  This survey is intended for everyone interested in improved life sciences research software: commercial and academic; developers, vendors, and software users; OMG members and non-members.  Survey answers will be kept confidential and only presented in statistical summary.

So, here's how you can help create better software for life science research:  please take a few minutes to go to http://lsr.ebi.ac.uk/survey/survey_form.html and give your answers to the questions there.  And please share this invitation with your interested colleagues.



Thank you very much,

David Benton, GlaxoSmithKline, LSR Co-Chair
James Fry, Pfizer, LSR Cheminformatics Working Group Co-Chair
Doug Greer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, LSR Macromolecular Structure Working Group Chair
Karl Konnerth, Incyte Genomics, LSR Co-Chair
Scott Markel, NetGenics, LSR Co-Chair
Tony Parsons, Pfizer,  LSR LECIS Working Goup, Co-Chair
Thorsten Richter, Creon-Lab-Control, LSR LECIS Working Goup, Co-Chair
Richard Scott, De Novo Pharmaceuticals, LSR Cheminformatics Working Group Co-Chair
Martin Senger, European Bioinformatics Institute, LSR Workflow Working Group Chair
Torsten Staab, Los Alamos National Laboratory, LSR LECIS Working Group Co-Chair
Charles Troup, Agilent, LSR Gene Expression Working Group Chair --=_alternative 0072618A85256AF5_=-- --- .