[Nexus] MEDSBIO

[Herbert J. Bernstein]

Dear Colleagues,

    I would like to draw your attention to a new consortium:  MEDSBIO --
the Consortium for Management of Experimental Data in Structural Biology.

The goals of the MEDSBIO consortium are to collaboratively resolve
the interface issues among multiple structural biology data
management protocols, including imgCIF, NeXuS, vendor data formats,
instrument control and signaling protocols, local and remote
experiment control protocols, etc. with the objective of making the
collection, transfer and archiving of data for experiments in
structural biology as efficient as practicable; maintain an archive
of documentation on standards and proposals for ontologies, software,
hardware specifications, web templates and other documentation
related to  such protocols; maintain an archive of open source
software related to such protocols; maintain a archive of samples and
test cases related to such protocols; run annual workshops on issues
relating to such protocols; contribute open source software to fill
gaps in the infrastructure related to such protocol; gather and where
necessary create curricular material to assist in training
experimenters in issues related to such protocols.

If you are interested in more details, please send email to:

   Herbert J. Bernstein
   yaya at dowling.edu



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