http://www.biocatalogue.org

ISMB Demo, 01 July 2009

Franck Tanoh University of Manchester, UK

• Public, Curated Catalogue of Life Science Web Services

• Register, Find, Curate Web Services• Community-sourced annotation, expert oversee• Open content• Open platform with open REST interfaces• Web 2.0 site and development. • Open source code base.

• Started June 2008.

Bottom Line

Why?

Scientific Workflow Management System

Socially share, discover and reuse workflows

Service provider

Why?

Guessimate 3000+ Web Services in Life Science publicly available

Where…can I find them? advertise?

What…do they do? Can I use them?

How…do they work? operational profile?

up to date?Who…

provides them? recommends them?

Content

• Community contributed

– Service providers

– Third Parties

• Automated crawling

• Sourced from partners and registries

• Chiefly public services

Curation

• Mixed: Free text, Tags, controlled vocabs, community ontologies• Community sourced tags, comments, recommendations• Expert curation ontology-based annotation. myGrid OWL Ontology• Automated WSDL ripping and analytics• Automated monitoring & testing• Partner feeds (e.g. myExperiment)

• Update feeds to users

Let’s see

Demo

Next?• Public APIs - RESTful APIs to BioCatalogue• Full EMBRACE registry import. • Subscribe to a service - RSS/ATOM feeds for services• Integration with myExperiment • “Try it now” service functionality - Ability to test and play with a service

within the BioCatalogue interface before using it.• Integration with Taverna - Ability to import Web Services and

annotations to and from BioCatalogue and Taverna.• myBioCatalogue - Ability to set up your own local BioCatalogue registry.

BioMoby services support - Register and search for BioMoby services. • Support for DAS services • Curation workbench/tools - New curation tools designed for expert

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Roadmap: http://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki/doku.php?id=public:roadmap

Who?

Credits

Thomas LaurentHamish McWilliams

Franck Tanoh Jiten BhagatCarole Goble

Rodrigo LopezEric Nzuobontane

Steve Pettifer

Katy Wolstencroft

Robert Stevens

David De Roure