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

[Edward Kawas]

Hi Michael,

What the service checker does is that it tries to ping the service by
sending an empty moby message. If the service responds (basically echoes)
then it is considered alive.

What service are you trying?

Eddie 

-----Original Message-----
From: moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org
[mailto:moby-dev-bounces at lists.open-bio.org] On Behalf Of Michael Gerlich
Sent: June-11-09 6:44 AM
To: Core developer announcements
Subject: Re: [MOBY-dev] Human Readable Registry on the Web ?

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_ser
vice&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=iANTN
etBlast&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

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