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[Scott Markel]

"ZHOU, YIHUA [FND/1000]" wrote:
> 
> BioJava is doing a great job in representing and processing sequence data.
> How about microarray expression data? Is there anyone actively involved in
> this area? Who should I talk to for potential contribution in this
> sub-project?

There's an ongoing effort at the Object Management Group to develop
standard interfaces and XML DTDs/schemas for microarray expression data.
The participants are EBI (representing MGED: http://www.mged.org),
NetGenics, and Rosetta (representing GEML: http://www.geml.org).
Agilent is a supporter.  Charles Troup (Agilent) has done a great job of
leading the evaluation effort.  The evaluation document is

  http://cgi.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?lifesci/00-12-12

You can get copies of the initial submissions and the RFP at

  http://www.omg.org/techprocess/meetings/schedule/Gene_Expression_RFP.html

There are a few more related links at

  http://www.omg.org/homepages/lsr/rfs.html

The good news is that the GEML, MGED, and OMG communities are working
together to solve this problem.

Scott

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