Jill Kaufman

Life-sciences standards are just emerging. At standards meetings, competitors, partners, and customers come together to create interoperability interfaces in areas important to customers. IBM is active in life sciences-related standards focused on informatics and data management, many of which use XML and a Web services approach. IBM Life Sciences currently participates in several standards bodies related to life sciences, including I3C (Interoperable Informatics Infrastruc-ture Consortium), OMG-LSR (Object Management Group-Life Sciences Research), HL7 (Health Level Seven), and CDISC (Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium). The three focus areas of life-sciences standards are research, development, and clinical genomics. The I3C and OMG-LSR are initially focused on interoperability in the research area, while CDISC and HL7 create standards in development, ... (more)