[The full schedule for OiB-97 is now on-line at
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/~alan/Meeting/speakers.html ].
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Objects in Bioinformatics-
Reusable Software Components and Distributed Computing
for the Biological Sciences.
18th and 19th June 1997,
European Bioinformatics Institute, Cambridge, UK.
http://www.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 the
biological sciences. The widget and object-oriented approach is a
powerful paradigm in which new applications are developed by utilising
pre-existing components interacting in concert, and offers the
possibility of a new generation of bioinformatic tools. In this way
development time is reduced and greater time is spent on data analysis
and knowledge discovery.
The meeting is aimed at those who are interested in, are developing, or
have developed reusable software components that will be of use to the
bioinformatics and biological community. It will also address the
implication and application of distributed object technology to biology
and bioinformatics.
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. There will be prizes for the best poster presentations.
Full details about the meeting may be accessed at -
http://www.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 thanks to generous financial support from Astra,
SmithKline Beecham and Zeneca.
The closing date for early registration is the 18th of May, 1997.
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Programme for OiB-97
Wednesday 18th June
8:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Registration Opens
10:00"Old Bioinformatics meets Graham Head of Services, European
the New" Cameron Bioinformatics Institute
10:40[Title TBC] David Benton SmithKline Beecham
11:20 "The bioWidget Consortium" Stan Letovsky The Genome Database, Johns
Hopkins University
12:00 Lunch Break Posters and Demonstrations in the Cloisters
3:00 "The bioWidget API- Design Steve Fischer CBIL, University of
Issues and Architecture" Pennsylvania
"Building the bioWidget
3:35 Repository - QA, QC and Nathan The Jackson Laboratory
Documentation" Goodman
4:10 Oral presentation of a [To be announced - 20th May]
selected poster
4:30 Coffee served in the Poster viewing in the Cloisters
Cloisters
5:00 "Integrating graphical School of Computing and
components in a visual John Boyle Mathematical Sciences, The
programming environment" Robert Gordon University
5:35 "3-D Graphics and Hank Shiffman Silicon Graphics
Visualisation using Java" Incorporated
6:10 Oral presentation of a [To be announced - 20th May]
selected poster
7:00 Conference Dinner Hinxton Hall
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Thursday 19th June
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:30 "Using Distributed
Interoperable Components Alan J. Industry Support,
with Biological Databases Robinson European Bioinformatics
and Java" Institute
10:05 "Object-Oriented Perl
Modules for Steve Chervitz Dept of Genetics,
Bioinformatics" Stanford University
10:40 Oral presentation of a [To be announced - 20th May]
selected poster
11:00 Tea served in the Poster viewing in the Cloisters
Cloisters
11:30 "New ways of developing
software for the Andrew Lyall Glaxo Wellcome
pharmaceutical industry"
12:05 "Implementing
interoperable objects for David Bioinformatics Group,
industrial bioinformatics" Parry-Smith Pfizer Central Research
bioinformatics"
12:40 Oral presentation of a [To be announced - 20th May]
selected poster
1:00 Lunch Break Posters & Demonstrations in the Cloisters
3:00 "Object-Oriented Graham Kemp Department of Computing
Databases for Science, University of
Bioinformatics" Aberdeen
3:30 "Jade: A simple way to Jean CNRS, Montpellier
connect existing servers Thierry-Mieg
to Java displays"
4:00 "Collaborative Components Jeroen Services Research and
in Bioinformatics" Coppieters Development, European
Bioinformatics Institute
4:30 Tea served in the Poster viewing in the Cloisters
Cloisters
5:00 "EMBOSS: The European Peter Rice Informatics Division,
Molecular Biology Open The Sanger Centre
Software Suite"
5:30 "An Object-oriented David Moss Dept. of Crystallography,
Approach to Software Birkbeck College
Reuse in Biomolecular
Science"
6:00 "BioBeans and the Java Luca Toldo Preclinical Research,
Molecular Biology MERCK KGaA
Workbench"
7:00 Dinner Hinxton Hall
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