[Biocorba-l] BSANE and bioCORBA Spec

[Juha Muilu]

I think the BSANE/bioCORBA is still a good starting point for cross 
platform standards in bioinformatics. However, it only can evolve if 
people participate on discussions.

Perhaps discussions should moved away from the corba list, because same 
design issues applies to all implementation platforms. Did somebody 
already allocated biostandards.org or something for that purpose? 
Anybody interested? Cross platform compatibility is still important issue.

Juha




Martin Senger wrote:

>>I was rading the BSANE pages and noticed that it has now been merged
>>with the bioCORBA spec.
>>
>>Can any one tell me the current status of this?
>>
>>
>    I can explain what is the history and what are the plans. The BSANE
> specification was submitted joinly by EBI and NetGenics (now part of
> Lion). Later was a succesful "merging" discussion between biocorba and
> this spec - and Juha Muilu (from EBI) updated BSANE pages to reflect the
> agreement. The plan was to present the changed BSANE to LSR (Life Sciences
> Research task force where the request for BSANE started) this June and let
> LSR (OMG) "blessed" the spec. However, because of new project at EBI,
> because Juha is moving somewhere else, and because the agreement was only
> about sequence objects (and BSANE originally asked for more), the EBI
> decided *not* to present it - which in reality means that the BSANE will
> be forgotten (unless something dramatically happens).
> 
>  
> 
>>The reason I ask is I'm looking around for existing standards for
>>Bioinformatics types.
>>
>>
>    Look, for example, into bioMobby (but I am not familiar with it, so
> forgive me if I am giving a wrong direction).
> 
>    Martin
> 
> 


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