[MOBY-l] Services inputs and outputs

[Mark Wilkinson]

Thanks Pieter!

I'm sitting in the BOSC meeting at ISMB and didn't have the opportunity  
for a full response :-)

M



On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:30:10 -0700, Pieter Neerincx  
<pieter.neerincx at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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