Launch of the Open Molecule Foundation

[Terri Attwood]

Dear all,

The 19th of September 1996 sees the official launch of the Open Molecule
Foundation (OMF). The OMF is an open, non-profit making organisation,
which intends to provide reusable, pre-competitive applets and Java
packages to be made freely available over the Internet for the bio- and
chemo- informatics communities.

Membership of the OMF is free to academics and non-profit making
organisations, 
and there is a varying scale of commitment for commercial organisations.
For further details on membership, please visit the OMF WWW site at:

http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/omf/info/membership.html

Sun, amongst others, is a keen supporter of this open organisation, and
as such has kindly agreed to host the launch event at it's City of
London offices (25 Ropemaker Street, London, EC2Y 9AS).

The event will commence at 9am, the agenda is as follows:

9.00  Registration and Coffee

9.30    Welcome                               	David Parry-Smith -
Pfizer
9.40    Demo of CINEMA and                      Terri Attwood - UCL
        Future Directions                       Andrew Payne -
Cyberdynamics

10.20   Coffee Break

10.50   Spectral Browsers and                   Peter Murray-Rust - VSMS
        Java Compound Card                   	Richard Kinder - SunSoft
11.30   Electronic Publishing                   Henry Rzepa - Imperial
College        
11.40   Java, Joe, NEO and the OMF              Paul Bellchambers -
SunSoft
11.55   Q & A Session                  		Adam Precious - MDIS
        Introduction to OMF        		Moni Pangali - Sun Microsystems
		- Membership                
		- Projects
		- Future events

12.15   LUNCH
    
13.30   Optional workshops - opportunity to gain hands-on experience of 
	subjects covered during morning sessions.
                
        		STREAM A            STREAM B        

13.30 - 14.30		BIOINFORMATICS      CHEMOINFORMATICS
                	Workshop Leaders    Workshop Leaders
                	Terri Attwood       Peter Murray-Rust
                	David Parry-Smith   Henry Rzepa
                	Andrew Payne        Richard Kinder

14.30 - 15.30		BIOINFORMATICS	    CHEMOINFORMATICS

                                  REPEAT SESSIONS 


If you wish to attend this event, please complete the form to be found
at the following URL:

http://www.ch.ic.ac.uk/omf/info/launch.html

Regards,
Richard Kinder.
pp. The OMF.