Objective Databases in the biosciences describe a wide spectrum of complex biological information distributed throughout Europe, and the world. The diversity of these databases makes efforts towards integrating and accessing these data difficult. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture is an international standard developed by the world's largest software consortium. It specifies a coherent framework in which distributed applications can interoperate. Such a standard is crucial in the linking of biological databases. This project will provide a critical appraisal of this standard and an empirical validation through implementation experience. The project will cover a diverse set of data. These data include several of the larger established databases (EMBL, SwissProt, PIR, MSD, GDB) and several new and emerging databases (TRANSFAC, P53, RHdb). Services and client applications will be developed that exploit these data. These applications will contain new client programs that allow access to integrated views of these underlying data. This project is a vital step towards providing the infrastructure required to realise the wealth of information held in the ever increasing number of databases with which the biologist must contend. Fields of science natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftwarenatural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases Programme(s) FP4-BIOTECH 2 - Specific research, technological development and demonstration programme in the field of biotechnology, 1994-1998 Topic(s) 080101 - Information resources on molecular sequences and structures Call for proposal Data not available Funding Scheme CSC - Cost-sharing contracts Coordinator EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EU contribution No data Address Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton Hall CB10 1SD SAFFRON WALDEN United Kingdom See on map Total cost No data Participants (5) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Centre International de Recherche sur le Cancer France EU contribution No data Address 150 cours Albert Thomas 69372 Lyon See on map Total cost No data Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique France EU contribution No data Address 7,Rue Guy Moquet 94801 Villejuif See on map Total cost No data GBF - NATIONAL CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY Germany EU contribution No data Address Mascheroder Weg 1 38124 BRAUNSCHWEIG See on map Total cost No data LUND UNIVERSITY Sweden EU contribution No data Address 39,Soelvegatan 19 , BMC:l11 221 84 LUND See on map Total cost No data MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E.V. Germany EU contribution No data Address Am Klopferspitz 18 A 82152 MARTINSRIED See on map Total cost No data
