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

[Mark Wilkinson]

see links here:

http://biomoby.open-bio.org/index.php/for-developers/registry_clients


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On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 09:38:49 -0700, Mark Wilkinson <markw at illuminae.com>  
wrote:

> There's also the Moby Encyclopedia, written by Ken many many many years  
> ago:
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> 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:
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>> Hi Steffen,
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>> In Toulouse, we use a cgi that we wrote to browse Moby registries:
>> http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi
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>> To directly access to a service description in the public central, you
>> have to provide 2 parameters : service and auth_uri.
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>> Here is an example:
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>> http://lipm-bioinfo.toulouse.inra.fr/registry/cgi/registry.cgi?service=iANTNetBlast&auth_uri=iant.toulouse.inra.fr
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>> 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.
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>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Sebastien
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>> 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