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 Bottom Line

Why? Scientific Workflow Management System Socially share, discover and reuse workflows Service provider

Why? Guessimate 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 curators. --- Roadmap:

Who?

Credits Thomas Laurent Hamish McWilliams Franck Tanoh Jiten Bhagat Carole Goble Rodrigo Lopez Eric Nzuobontane Steve Pettifer Katy Wolstencroft Robert Stevens David De Roure