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

[Mark Wilkinson]

There's also the Moby Encyclopedia, written by Ken many many many years  
ago:

http://moby.ucalgary.ca/cgi-bin/list.services.cgi

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On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 05:44:30 -0700, Sebastien Carrere  
<Sebastien.Carrere at toulouse.inra.fr> 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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Mark D Wilkinson, PI Bioinformatics
Assistant Professor, Medical Genetics
The James Hogg iCAPTURE Centre for Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Research
Providence Heart + Lung Institute
University of British Columbia - St. Paul's Hospital
Vancouver, BC, Canada