Hi Matthias,
Interesting remarks. You'll be interested to know that 'webifying'
workflows (in various ways) is one of the prime interests of people at
myGrid and myExperiment. My personal opinion, a bit from a biologist's
perspective, is that we should be careful not to loose some aspects of
workflows in our enthusiasm about Web 2.0 and wiki approaches. One of my
main reasons for liking workflows is that they represent a publishable
and reproducible 'protocol' similar to a wet laboratory protocol. This
should not be volatile in any way, which Web2.0 or wiki approaches
easily can be.
NB Soon, also web services can be published via 'BioCatalogue', which is
closely associated with myExperiment and with a semantic annotation
model behind.
Regards,
Marco.
Matthias Samwald wrote:
Kei Cheung wrote:
Also, it's interesting to see scientific workflows can be published
via Wiki (e.g., myExperiment).
But as far as I know, myExperiment does not allow editing the actual
workflows online, you can only upload and visualize workflow files
that have been created on the client-side. I guess that still poses a
significant hindrance to realizing the 'anyone can edit' philosophy of
classic wikis. In this regard, fully server-sided systems such as the
well known Yahoo Pipes or the quickly maturing Semantic Web Pipes [1]
might be the way to go.
Regarding the article, it will probably seem a bit puzzling to many
people on this mailing list that Lincoln Stein writes
"To my knowledge, there is currently only one project that aims to
bring the pure semantic web to biomedical research. That project is
the Simple Semantic Web Architecture and Protocol (SSWAP30)"
It's nice that Nature allows the community to add descriptions about
our various projects on the wiki page associated with the article [2];
unfortunately, though, most readers of the original article will
probably not have a look at that wiki.
[1] http://pipes.deri.org/
[2] http://nrgwiki.nature.com/cyberinfrastructureforbiology/show/HomePage
Cheers,
Matthias Samwald
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