[MOBY-dev] Human Readable Registry on the Web ?

[Michael Gerlich]

Hi,

does this cgi script check for dead services?

I noticed that all of our (ipb-halle.de) services are currently marked 
as dead services (including a whole bunch of other services - too many 
for my understanding...):
http://moby.ucalgary.ca/moby/ValidateService?getDeadServices

Might this be causing empty entries in your registry when tried for our 
services?
http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi?form=more_service&central=mobycentral&service=MassBank_unique_DBLinks&auth_uri=ipb-halle.de

I checked and all our services are working, and both Taverna and 
Dashboard have no problems with them. I guess the lookup if and how a 
service is marked as "dead" should be revised, or perhaps someone could 
point some information to me so I can assure that our services are not 
marked as dead (would this require rdf-editing?).

Regards,
Michael


Sebastien Carrere wrote:
> Hi Steffen,
>
> In Toulouse, we use a cgi that we wrote to browse Moby registries:
> http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi
>
> To directly access to a service description in the public central, you 
> have to provide 2 parameters : service and auth_uri.
>
> Here is an example:
>
> http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi?service=iANTNetBlast&auth_uri=iant.toulouse.inra.fr 
>
>
> As you can see on this example, for simple services (just one input), 
> a direct link to Remora is provided in order to test the service.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Sebastien
>
>
>
> Steffen Neumann wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There is an itch I have since I got to know Moby:
>> I'd like to *quickly* browse available services without fireing up 
>> the Dashboard. Or, maybe I'd like to tell someone "we have written 
>> this super-cool BioMoby service", and point them to a URL with a 
>> nicely formatted Name and Description of the service.
>> * The serviceList is missing the both the description
>>   and some <a name="ipb-halle"> to point to our services
>>   http://biomoby.org/cgi-bin/serviceList, same with   
>> http://moby.ucalgary.ca/moby/ValidateService
>>
>> * The WSDL at e.g.   
>> http://biomoby.org/services/wsdl/ipb-halle.de/MassBank_unique_DBLinks
>>   is not really human readable.
>>
>> * The RDF at http://moby.ucalgary.ca/RESOURCES/MOBY-S/ServiceInstances
>>   is neither human readable, nor can I point to my service
>>
>> * GBwrose can't easily be linked to with any search parameters,
>>   and anyway offers way too much functionality for my purpose
>>
>> Did I miss anything obvious ? I'd expect that a nicely formatted
>> web accessible registry overview (with occasional visits
>> by google et al) could boost public visibility of BioMoby.
>>
>> Yours,
>> Steffen
>>
>>   
>
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Michael Gerlich
Group Bioinformatics & Mass Spectrometry
Leibniz Institute of Plant Biochemistry
06120 Halle, Germany