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Niall Beard and Aleksandra Nenadic University of Manchester

myGrid Team

BioCatalogue

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• Live Website

– http://www.biocatalogue.org/

• Sandbox Website

– http://test.biocatalogue.org

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BioCatalogue URL

• What is a Web service?

• Web services discovery problem

• BioCatalogue – Motivation

– Benefits

• Some BioCatalogue statistics

• Demo

• Summary

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Overview

location Sample id

Sample name

Sample data 1

Sample data 2

What is a Web Service?

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BioSTIF

send

receive

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Problem: Web Services Discovery

How can I advertise my Web services? What information do

people need about them?

What can this Web service do? How do I

use it? How do I know the

Web service is working?

How can I find the right Web service?

Web Service Provider

User

What is BioCatalogue?

register

find

use

invoke/call

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Scientist

Web Service

Non-registered user

Registered user Curator

Search ✔ ✔ ✔

Register a service ✖ ✔ ✔

Add annotations ✖ ✔ ✔

Manage all services ✖ ✖ ✔

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BioCatalogue Users

• Easy to REGISTER services

• Great exposure

– The right demographic

– Searchable

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Benefits – Service Providers

• Community-aided ANNOTATION

• Notifications

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Benefits – Service Providers

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Benefits – Community Members

• EXPLORE Web services

– Full text search

– Filtering

• Comprehensive service descriptions

– Annotated and verified by the community

• Web service MONITORING

– On a daily basis

– Services change and get outdated

– Long term reliability

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Benefits – Community Members

• BioCatalogue REST API

– Not just UI to find web services.

• E.g. search for every resource that contains the text ‘ebi’

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Programmatic Access

• 2356 Biology Web services

• 757 registered community members

– 184 are service providers

BioCatalogue Statistics

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• Invoke it from your own script or application – Hard and techy

• Use a workflow system (such as Taverna) – Automatic invocation

from a workflow

– Example: data refinement workflow

What to do with a Web service once you find it?

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DEMO

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Summary