[MOBY-l] Moby in workflows

Michael Jensen michael at acutrans.net
Mon Oct 11 14:15:59 UTC 2004


Mark:

Not sure if I am just out of the loop or not, but you mentioned 
myGrid/MOBY-S merging. Can you expound on that or point me somewhere? 
Latest news on Biomoby.org is November 2003.

-Michael


On Oct 7, 2004, at 3:25 AM, Mark Wilkinson wrote:

> Hi Tom,
>
> I know I'm going to see you next week anyway, but since I am sitting 
> here in the myGrid lab and mapping out the next 12 months of 
> myGrid/MOBY-S merging, I'd like to jump on this and express my 
> pleasure that you have built MOBY-S support into Taverna.  In 
> addition, there has been considerable discussion that we (the Genome 
> Canada bioinformatics platform grant) should spotlight Taverna as the 
> "recommended" tool for interacting with web services for all genome 
> centres nationwide - the advantage to us, of course, is that we then 
> have a uniform landscape through which we can provide bioinformatics 
> end-user service.  An upcoming edition of our GC bioinformatics 
> newsletter will do exactly that :-)
>
> Phil has indicated that additional MOBY-S support is being added to 
> Taverna, so hopefully next week we can sit down over a pint and 
> resolve the issues that remain foggy.
>
> Cheers!
>
> Mark
>
>
>
> Tom Oinn wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I run the Taverna project (http://taverna.sf.net), a workflow design 
>> and enactment system which supports BioMoby and I figured it was time 
>> I de-lurked and started to pester you with questions, I hope you'll 
>> forgive me!
>>
>> I'd really just like to get a feel for whether people are using 
>> Taverna; if so for what and how could we improve it, and if not then 
>> why and how can we persuade you. I'm aware of a couple of 
>> shortcomings in our Moby support, there's an issue with empty results 
>> and we don't pick up annotations at all at the moment - it's the 
>> second of those that I'm curious about (we can sort the first out, 
>> it's mostly a technical issue). If you were chaining multiple service 
>> together how would the annotation information manifest in this flow?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Tom Oinn (EMBL-EBI)
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