[MOBY-l] Services inputs and outputs

[Victor Manuel]

thanks Peter. I would like to use the moby in a different context, but as far as I understand the moby does not offer any service discovery capability unless u follow moby standards;  so it works as a kind of yellow pages where u can only be found if you publish according to pre-defined standards, am I right? is there any experience of using biomoby in a non bio setting? 

Also, from where could I download the bio moby ontology of data types? how are the ontologies being aligned, Mark mentioned that my grid ontologies were being aligned with biomoby ontologies, where can I get the mapped ontology? or for that matter the file in which this alignment is specified. Where can I get the doc describing all the moby standards? Cheers. 

sorry bout my newbe questions but I am trying to figure out which service discovery mechanism could I use in a non bio setting. Cheers. 



----- Original Message ----
From: Pieter Neerincx <pieter.neerincx at gmail.com>
To: Victor Manuel <vmgcastellanos at yahoo.com>
Cc: moby-l at lists.open-bio.org
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 9:30:10 AM
Subject: Re: [MOBY-l] Services inputs and outputs

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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