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

[Guzman Llambias - INCO]

Hi Mark!!! Thank you very much for your quick answer! You were very helpfull!

Best luck with your new project!

regards
Guzmán

Mark <markw at illuminae.com> escribió:

> 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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