Implementing Mobile Agents in Genome Information Processing

Today, for biologists of genome analysis, actions to access web servers occupy an important part of their researches. But, the actions usually spend a lot of time, because the biologist must visit many web servers in order to perform his aim. Furthermore, biologists are sometimes embarrassed by very slow response of Internet. Kanehisa had implied the possibilities of \mobile agent" in a eld of genome information analysis in [3]. We are interested in applying mobile agent technology to the genome information analysis, and then trying to construct the system gathering gene relations distributed in databases all over the world for a software agent for a gene regulation network of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in [4]. With the release of Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1, a number of companies have developed Java class libraries for mobile agents [1, 6]. On the other hand, Telescript by General Magic [5] had been the most widely used mobile agent technology before the release of JDK 1.1. Thus we naturally decide to use Odyssey by General Magic as our developing environment.