[MOBY-l] Services inputs and outputs

[Pieter Neerincx]

Hi Victor,

On 18•Jul•2008, at 3:52 PM, Victor Manuel wrote:

> Is there an ontology describing biomoby inputs and outputs?

Yes, that is what BioMoby was designed for in the first place :)

> does biomoby provide any web service discovery mechanism?

Yes, that is what the BioMoby ontologies mentioned above were designed  
for in the first place :)

>  does biomoby standardizes the description of web services in bionfo?

Partially, that is what BioMoby was designed for in the first place :)  
The inputs and outputs are standardised as well as service types, but  
there is also a "free text form" description field to describe a  
service. The latter is just meant to be a human readable string and is  
not standardised (not even on language, so you might find some non- 
english stuff in there...)

Both the inputs & outputs as well as service types and the services  
themselves are stored in ontologies. These are available from  
repositories called BioMoby Central. There is one official public one  
and several institutes host their own BioMoby Centrals either for  
development or for services which are not publicly available.

Looks like you could use a BioMoby primer; the BioMoby 1.0 paper would  
be good start:

http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/9/3/220

Cheers,

Pi


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