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ISMB/ECCB Stockholm 2009:
ISMB/ECCB
TT40: Franck Tanoh - BioCatalogue: A Curated Web Service Registry for the Life Science Community
June 30, 2009
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Cass Johnston, Jiten Bhagat, Cameron Neylon and 2 other people liked this
A catalogue where to register web services. REST API, open source codebase.
- Gabriele Sales
Estimate of public web services in Life Science: 3000+
- Gabriele Sales
People who have an interest in such services: users, developers, service providers, and tool developers
- Allyson Lister
What BioCatalog adds: free text searches, tags (controlled vocabulary), automatic monitoring and testing.
- Gabriele Sales
Demo: http://www.biocatalogue.org
- Gabriele Sales
You can bookmark lots of services, even without signing up
- Allyson Lister
Each web service is associated to categories.
- Gabriele Sales
An icon captures the state of the service (online, not responding).
- Gabriele Sales
Can refine searches (aka "search within results")
- Gabriele Sales
lists licensing / costs as well
- Allyson Lister
The input and output of the services have their own description.
- Allyson Lister
Demo of service description submission.
- Gabriele Sales
Supported service types: SOAP, SOAPLAB Server, REST.
- Gabriele Sales
Blog post: http://themindwobbles.wordpress.com/2009... (This one isn't as long as usual - a lot of the talk was a demo where I didn't take as many notes)
- Allyson Lister