[Bioperl-pipeline] RE: BOSC Wrapup

[Shawn]

Lets use the pipeline mailing list from now.

> Basically the whole thing is in Perl, and I haven't discovered a java client
> (all client libraries are in Perl). So basically for us to use it, we would
> first have to write our own java client libraries. They're making use of
> SOAP, so it should be fairly straight forward. I'm sure they would love it
> if we'd develop it though...


Actually the java aspect comes with OmniGene, and they are gonna
integrate the 2. You might want to check that one out.

> 
> Juguang, you are together with Allison the most experienced in SOAP. Maybe
> you could take a look of what it takes to write a java client library for
> Moby (http://biomoby.org/).
> 
> And just as a general side note... I have taken a look at the demo client
> (http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca:8099/cgi-bin/MOBY-Client.cgi), and I have no idea
> what it does. Maybe someone who does understand the biological side of it
> can walk me through it :)

The client is basically a way for the biologist to avoid having to think
about what kind of services to use. Thus its kinda like a wizard. 
1)He requests for genbank sequences, then with that genbank sequence
2)he is presented with a bunch of things he can do with it.
So at each stage he is given choices of what to do..and he doesn't need
to find out where to get the resources. Transparent to him. Services are
discovered dynamically as more services registered which is really neat.


shawn

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