• Report on XEWA-00: the XML Enabled Wide-Area Searches for Bioinformatics Workshop,
  Terence Critchlow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, United States
• Towards standardisation of microarray gene expression data,
  Alan Robinson, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom
• The BioCorba specification and its implementation in java, perl and python,
  Matthew Pocock, The Sanger Centre, United Kingdom
• AppLab and the development of network applications in biology,
  Martin Senger, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

• Integration of SRS with the Object Management Architecture and biology oriented extensible markup languages,
  Thure Etzold, Lion Biosciences Ltd, United Kingdom
• The TAMBIS project and its integration in the bioinformatics network environment,
  Carole Goble, Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
• The electronical infrastructure for the analysis of metabolic networks,
  Ralf Hofestaedt, School of Computer Science, University of Magdeburg, Germany
• The InterPro database, an integrated documentation resource for protein families, domains and functional sites,
  Rolf Apweiler, European Bioinformatics Institute, United Kingdom

• Prophecy XML: Applications of XML in Bioinformatics Data Production,
  Edward Kiruluta, DoubleTwist Inc., United States
• Distributed framework for gene analysis,
  Luciano Milanesi, Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche Avanzate CNR, Italy
• Application of XML to protein structure data and limitations which have led to development of a new format,
  Andrew C.R. Martin, University of Reading, United Kingdom
• MaXML: Functional Annotation of Mouse cDNA Sequences in XML,
  Takeya Kasukawa, NTT Software Corporation, Japan
• Building a Distributed Annotation System,
  Thomas Down, The Sanger Centre, United Kingdom
• An intelligent agents architecture for DNA-microarray data integration,
  Emanuela Merelli, Mathematics and physics department, University of Camerino, Italy
• An Ontology Driven Architecture for Macromolecular Structure,
  Douglas S. Greer, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, USA

All invited speakers will face this visionary issue during a public debate, open to all interested people.

This session is devoted to the presentation of contributed posters on the Workshop's topics. The list of posters is now available.

This session is devoted to on-line demonstrations of clients/servers applications. A list of softwares under demonstration will soon be available.

This session is devoted to the presentation of proprietary integration softwares from companies. The list of companies that will present their softwares will soon be available.