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

[Michael Gerlich]

Thanks for that.

Michael


Sebastien Carrere wrote:
>
> This cgi does not check for dead services. It browses the whole registry.
>
> The problem with your service was related to Collection Input (we 
> don't have a lot of services dealing with collections in our lab, 
> that's why I had never seen this bug ...).
> I fixed it.
>
> Now, the following url is ok:
> http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi?form=more_service&central=mobycentral&service=MassBank_unique_DBLinks&auth_uri=ipb-halle.de 
>
>
>
> Sebastien.
>
>
>
>
> Michael Gerlich wrote:
>> 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