http://www.biocatalogue.org
ISMB Demo, 01 July 2009
Franck Tanoh University of Manchester, UK
• Public, Curated Catalogue of Life Science Web Services
• Register, Find, Curate Web Services• Community-sourced annotation, expert oversee• Open content• Open platform with open REST interfaces• Web 2.0 site and development. • Open source code base.
• Started June 2008.
Bottom Line
Why?
Scientific Workflow Management System
Socially share, discover and reuse workflows
Service provider
Why?
Guessimate 3000+ Web Services in Life Science publicly available
Where…can I find them? advertise?
What…do they do? Can I use them?
How…do they work? operational profile?
up to date?Who…
provides them? recommends them?
Content
• Community contributed
– Service providers
– Third Parties
• Automated crawling
• Sourced from partners and registries
• Chiefly public services
Curation
• Mixed: Free text, Tags, controlled vocabs, community ontologies• Community sourced tags, comments, recommendations• Expert curation ontology-based annotation. myGrid OWL Ontology• Automated WSDL ripping and analytics• Automated monitoring & testing• Partner feeds (e.g. myExperiment)
• Update feeds to users
Let’s see
Demo
Next?• Public APIs - RESTful APIs to BioCatalogue• Full EMBRACE registry import. • Subscribe to a service - RSS/ATOM feeds for services• Integration with myExperiment • “Try it now” service functionality - Ability to test and play with a service
within the BioCatalogue interface before using it.• Integration with Taverna - Ability to import Web Services and
annotations to and from BioCatalogue and Taverna.• myBioCatalogue - Ability to set up your own local BioCatalogue registry.
BioMoby services support - Register and search for BioMoby services. • Support for DAS services • Curation workbench/tools - New curation tools designed for expert
curators.• ---
Roadmap: http://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki/doku.php?id=public:roadmap
Who?
Credits
Thomas LaurentHamish McWilliams
Franck Tanoh Jiten BhagatCarole Goble
Rodrigo LopezEric Nzuobontane
Steve Pettifer
Katy Wolstencroft
Robert Stevens
David De Roure