I've been playing around with google wave for the last month or so. I have to say I like it and am impressed by the potential. I'm interested in hearing from others interested in hooking up a Distributed Annotation System server to googlewave. I've seen some stuff about hosting a DAS server on the google app engine. I reckon this might be an interesting way to solve the writeback problem.

I've written a small robot based on buglinky to handle creating links to the ?QuickGo service from the EBI. I'd like to extend this to offer searches against the ontology lookup service and provide links to that. The robot is available at bioontorobot@appspot.com. There is also a GWT front-end to the service but this doesn't really capture the potential of the service.

Anyway - I'd be interested in collaborating on this with others interested in biological ontologies and data integration.

It seems that UCD have an office that manages open source development. We will be shortly approaching them to see if they will help develop the wave robots.