[MOBY-l] Moby in workflows

Mark Wilkinson markw at illuminae.com
Thu Oct 7 11:05:55 UTC 2004


> Another thing which I realized : at the moment you will have to guess 
> from the name of the service to his function. If I want to build a 
> workflow integrating other peoples services as well, I need to know 
> what exactly a service does. In BioMoby this is described on one hand 
> in the human readable description and on the other hand by the 
> input/output objects in Moby Central. Is this what you mean with 
> annotation information? Or are you talking about the service notes?

Phillip, Pinar and I are going to look very closely today at a way to 
more "richly" query for services using a tool that Pinar has been 
developing that (I believe) is a plug-in to Taverna.  If this happens, 
the problem you discuss above will have been solved :-)

M




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