Object Management Group

OMG specifications Official OMG Website

BQS Specification
The Bibliographics Query Service (BQS) specification

BSA Specification
Biomolecular Sequence Analysis (BSA) specifcation

OpenBQS
EBI's implementation of the BQS specification

OpenBSA
EBI's implementation of the BSA specification.

RFP for Laboratory Activity Broker This RFP solicits proposals that define a management system which would describe and control a flow of data between software components that may include manual intervention between steps.

Workflow Managament Facility Specification
"This specification is based on standards defined by the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Founded in 1993, the WfMC is a non-profit, international organization of workflow vendors, customers and users whose mission is to promote the use of workflow through the establishment of standards for software terminology, interoperability and connectivity between workflow products. With more than 200 members in 25 countries, the Coalition has quickly become established as the primary standards body for this rapidly expanding software market.

-- RichCawley - 01 May 2003