Kjell Petersen wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> We are following the development of a Web Service interface of BASE2
> with great interest in Bergen, Norway. We will later integrate our BASE2
> installation with a larger set of resources, with the Web Service
> interface as the most natural choice of intersection since a Service
> Oriented Architecture will be implemented for the system as a whole.
>
> Tony, how large are the differences/needed implementations when
> comparing todays Web Service interface of BASE2 and a BioMOBY compliant
> Web Service interface ?
Hello, Kjell.
We did this work with a CS student before the base2 team announced plans
for web services and decided not to go any further until the Lund base2
developer's plans for web services stabilised. The main problem appeared
to be the absence of a 'coarse-graided' Java API to expose as base2 web
services. Micha Bayer at SCRI in Dundee, and my former PhD student Rob
Glasgow planned to work on developing a 'coarse-grained' API, but this
project has been put on ice for the moment because My PhD student left!
For the proof of concept projects, prior to announcement of base2 web
services by the Lund base2 developers, we used jMoby and the base2
sources to move single data objects between two base2 instances. This
was very preliminary work that I was interested in because I want to
experiement with p2p database. However, it also fit in well with our
plans for a BioMOBY-based NuGO data sharing infrastructure.
> There are also other "standardized" Web Service interfaces /
> recommandations for bioinformatics services, with probably EBI being the
> authority in Europe on implementations of such. How does BioMOBY relate
> to these efforts/approaches ?
My computer science colleagues denigrate BioMOBY, but it has proved very
popular with biologists. Martin Senger at EBI, has developed the BioMOBY
capabilities of taverna a lot in response to this popularity:
http://lib.bioinfo.pl/auth:Senger,M
I'm not an expert on BioMBY - Please contact my colleague Ulrich Hartigg
at DIfE for more information about planned NuGO's use of BioMOBY.
Tony.
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