The OMG Life Sciences Research Domain Task Force
Mission: Adopt CORBA interface specifications to enable interoperable software components in the life sciences research “vertical domain”
Scope: Genomics, bioinformatics, clinical trials, cheminformatics, genetics, structural biology, …
Open participation: mission defined by participants
Academic, biotech, pharmaceutical, software and hardware vendors (~40 OMG member companies)
http://www.omg.org/homepages/lsr/