[MOBY-dev] BioMoby Taverna plug-in status?

[Mark]

The answer is "yes" :-)  We're not *abandoning* biomoby, but there's  
really not much left to do... the project pretty much runs itself,and  
there are many people around the world writing support packages for it.   
So, we will certainly respond to bug reports and will pursue (or at least,  
help you help yourself) if you have new feature requests.  There are many  
people out there using it, so it will continue to live for a long time!!   
We still teach biomoby/taverna in our national bioinformatics courses, so  
we will NOT be walking away from it!  However, the technology is almost 10  
years old now, so we (my lab) are quite anxious to move forward with more  
powerful and standards-compliant technologies (like SADI!).

regarding the biomoby plugin limitations:  You can search based on input  
type or output type (not both), but you are correct that you cannot  
restrict your search by type.  keyword searches are not available inside  
of the plugin, but keyword searches can be done in taverna's service tree  
window.

Mark



On Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:43:56 -0700, Guzman Llambias - INCO  
<gllambi at fing.edu.uy> wrote:

> Hi!!
>
> I've been using Taverna with biomoby plug-in and saw that it was a bit
> limited compared to the full power of biomoby. You can't search
> services looking at the output type, type of service or keywords.
> Please, correct me if I'm wrong :) Also, I read some posts that said
> that the biomoby founders would put more work on SADI and leave their
> work on biomoby. So, my questions are:
>
> - what's going to happen to Taverna's biomoby plug-in?
> - is there going to be support and updates?
>
> Thanks!
> Guzmán
>
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