Locians, I came across some ORBit (C-based CORBA used in Gnome and soon to be used in Loci) documentation. It might be a good place to start for all of us on the list who are new to CORBA: http://www.sanger.ac.uk/Users/birney/orbit-html/book1.htm But what really struck me about this documentation is that it was written by Ewan Birney, a fellow bioinformaticist at the Sanger Center. Perhaps he might like to get involved in Loci. Well, I just sent him a letter. Peter, if you're reading this, maybe Ewan can help interface Loci and EMBOSS :-) It's worth a shot. We need more help with CORBA. Right now Justin (ahem) is working on a Python interface to ORBit. Ta ta, Jeff -- +------------------------------------+ | | | J.W. Bizzaro | | jeff at bioinformatics.org | | | | THE OPEN COLLABORATORY | | FOR MOLECULAR BIOINFORMATICS | | | | http://bioinformatics.org/ | | | +------------------------------------+