DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A CORBA-BASED GENOME MAPPING SYSTEM PROTOTYPE

Motivation: CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Ar chitecture), as an open standard, is considered to be a good solution for the development and deployment of applications in distributed heterogeneous environme nts. This technology can be applied in the bioinformatics area to enha nce utilization, management and interoperation between biological reso urces. Results: This paper investigates issues in developing CORBA app lications for genome mapping information systems in the Internet envir onment with emphasis on database connectivity and graphical user inter faces. The design and implementation of a CORBA prototype for an anima l genome mapping database are described. Availability: The prototype d emonstration is available via. http://www.ri.bbsrc.ac.uk/ark_corba/. C ontact: jian.hu@bbsrc.ac.uk.