title: Wrapping and interoperating bioinformatics resources using CORBA.
abstract: Bioinformaticians seeking to provide services to working biologists are faced with the twin problems of distribution and diversity of resources. Bioinformatics databases are distributed around the world and exist in many kinds of storage forms, platforms and access paradigms. To provide adequate services to biologists, these distributed and diverse resources have to interoperate seamlessly within single applications. The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) offers one technical solution to these problems. The key component of CORBA is its use of object orientation as an intermediate form to translate between different representations. This paper concentrates on an explanation of object orientation and how it can be used to overcome the problems of distribution and diversity by describing the interfaces between objects.
authors.affiliation: Bioinformatics and Information Management Groups, University of Manchester, Department of Computer Science, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PI. robert.stevens@cs.man.ac.uk
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stevens
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001483:Base Sequence; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D004247:DNA / Q000737:chemistry; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D017421:Sequence Analysis; D012984:Software; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D004247:DNA