A CORBA server for the Radiation Hybrid DataBase.

Modern biology depends on a wide range of software interacting with a large number of data sources, varying both in size, complexity and structure. The range of important databases in molecular biology and genetics makes it crucial to overcome the problems which this multiplicity presents. At EMBL-EBI we have started to use CORBA technology to support interoperability between a variety of databases, as well as to facilitate the integration of tools that access these databases. Within the Radiation Hybrid DataBase project we are confronted daily with the interoperation and linking issues. In this paper we present a CORBA infrastructure implemented to access the Radiation Hybrid DataBase.