[MOBY-l] TAIR service

[Lukas Mueller]

Hi all,

just want to let the list know that TAIR has a service up and running 
now. It returns VirtualSequences for GO_Terms. It is available from the 
MOBY_client.cgi at:
http://bioinfo.pbi.nrc.ca:8099/cgi-bin/MOBY-Client.cgi
Setting up the service was quite straightforward, but there also were 
some minor problems. If you are working on a service and experience 
problems, let me know, I may be able to help you!

Cheers
Lukas


On Monday, July 22, 2002, at 09:56 , mwilkinson at gene.pbi.nrc.ca wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Now that there are a handful of services up and running, the issues
> around dealing with our wonderful Object/Service ontologies are becoming
> clearer to me.  I'm wondering if anyone has opinions about whether
> ontologies should be a Client/Service issue, or if they should be dealt
> with at MOBY-Central?
>
> e.g. I query MOBY central with an input Object-type.  Does it respond
> only with the services that deal with that object type, or does it track
> down the parentage of that Object and tell me the services that deal
> with that object type and its parents?  Similarly, does a Service accept
> *any* type of object, and skim-off the information that it understands
> based on the ontology, or does it restrict itself to only dealing with
> *exactly* the type of object that it is registererd to deal with, and
> reject everything else?
>
> I think these questions arise whether or not we have a separate
> ontology-server (i.e. rip ontology-awareness out of the MOBY-Central
> itself - which seems like a good idea in any case), as it remains
> ambiguous who has the responsibility for dealing with the ontologies -
> server, client, or Central?
>
> How does myGrid deal with this?  other opinions?  I'd like to keep
> things as far away from the Server end as possible, since one of the
> "founding principles" was that service-creation should be mindless... At
> the same time, I worry that there is going to be too much pounding on
> MOBY-Central...
>
> These seem like important questions which we need to address *soon*,
> since we are already building both clients and services, and the pace at
> which Services are appearing is increasing daily!!  Making a decision
> now, even if it is viewed as an experiment, would be a good thing.
>
> M
>
>
>
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