BioCatalogue, the Life Science Web Services Registry

BioCatalogue: providing a curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services.

BioCatalogue will provide a single registration point for Web Service providers and a single search site for scientists and developers.

BioCatalogue will also act as a place where the community can find contacts and meet the experts and maintainers of these services.

The BioCatalogue team is currently working with the Embrace team to merge their registries. In the meantime, if you are keen to register your web services, please use the EMBRACE Registry, the contents of which will be merged with BioCatalogue in due course.

The BioCatalogue team is currently working on its first release, the pilot BioCatalogue, which will soon be released for testing to our biocatalogue-friends mailing list.

More information about the pilot and current BioCatalogue activities can be found on the BioCatalogue public wiki.

"Web Services are hard to find..."

Scientist, tool developers, bioinformaticians will be able to find the right Web Service they were looking for, thanks to an easy and powerful search interface harvesting the information made available by the Web Services providers and the BioCatalogue community.

"My Web Services are not visible..."

Service providers will be able to easily register their Web Services in the BioCatalogue, making them instantly available to the scientific community as well as the tool developers.

"Web Services are poorly described..."

ANNOTATE

Expert curators will provide oversight, monitor the catalogue and provide high quality annotations for services. The wider community will also participate to this effort using social networking for recommending, tagging, commenting and rating the services.

"Web Services are volatile..."

MONITOR

Web Services are volatile. They change their location, capability and interaction or become outdated. BioCatalogue will allow agents to monitor the Web Services and automatically add information to the catalogue.