Announcements
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ELIXIR Tools registry 'community paper' published in NAR
By Niall BeardAdmin (over 2 years ago)
The BioCatalogue is pleased to announce the publication of 'Tools and data services registry: a community effort to document bioinformatics resources.'
The BioCatalogue have worked hard to integrate BioCatalogue web services with the ELIXIR Tools registry - https://bio.tools/ - and as a result have been included in a community paper describing our efforts.
The paper can be found here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26538599
With this integration, services registered in the BioC...
BiodiversityCatalogue presents development of Web Map Service support at TDWG
By Niall BeardAdmin (over 2 years ago)
The sister site to the BioCatalogue - the BiodiversityCatalogue - presented new features at TDWG this year. The annual Biodiversity conference was held in Kenya where a video presentation showing prototype work in supporting WMS Services was unveiled.
The video presentation is available to view here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lBrW7fS-E
And the slide deck is available to view here: http://www.slideshare.net/NiallBeard/the-biodiversity-catalogue-and-support-for-web-map-services-t...
By Niall BeardAdmin (about 4 years ago)
Biocatalogue must briefly go down for essential maintenance at 15:30pm GMT Friday 11th April 2014
By
Aleksandra Nenadic
Admin
(over 4 years ago)
BioCatalogue has undergone a major upgrade to Rails 3 and Ruby 1.9, in addition to a number of bug fixes. Some of the new features include: a new and faster search engine, exporting services as a spreadsheet for curation and UI tweaks.
Soaplab EMBOSS services end of life: 31st January 2013
By
Robert HainesAdmin
(over 5 years ago)
The soaplab emboss service-set from the EBI will be decommissioned from Feb 1st 2013 (see here for more details:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/soaplab/overview).
Some of these services have been reimplemented as part of the main EBI web services collection (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/about/webservices).
If you use other soaplab emboss services, you may want to consider hosting your own set.
KEGG WSDL/SOAP services end of life: 31st December 2012
By
Robert HainesAdmin
(over 5 years ago)
KEGG will be moving from a WSDL/SOAP interface to REST.
The WSDL services will be decommissioned on the 31st December 2012.
Details of the new REST services can be found here: http://www.genome.jp/kegg/rest/keggapi.html
BioCatalogue Scheduled Downtime 14th August 2012
By
Robert HainesAdmin
(over 5 years ago)
The BioCatalogue will be unavailable from 0830 BST on August 14th 2012.
This downtime is required so that we can install a major upgrade to the BioCatalogue software. We will endeavour to keep the disruption to an absolute minimum but the upgrade is likely to take several hours. Please consider the service to be at risk until at least 1500 BST on that day.
We apologise for any inconvenience caused and thank you for your understanding.
The BioCatalogue Team.
Many DDBJ web services unavailable until further notice
By
Robert HainesAdmin
(almost 6 years ago)
We have been advised that many of the WSDL web services hosted by the DNA Databank of Japan (DDBJ) will be unavailable until further notice. Details can be found on the DDBJ website.
Seven Web Services Specifications are Proposed Recommendations (Call for Review)
By
Robert HainesAdmin
(over 6 years ago)
The W3C has recently announced the advancement of seven Web Services specifications to Proposed Recommendation status:
* Web Services Enumeration (WS-Enumeration)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-enumeration-20110927
* Web Services Event Descriptions (WS-EventDescriptions)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-event-descriptions-20110927
* Web Services Eventing (WS-Eventing)
http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/PR-ws-eventing-20110927
* Web Services Fragment (WS-Fragment)
http://www.w3....
The BioCatalogue iPhone and iPad apps are now available
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(over 6 years ago)
From Mannie Tagarira:
Hello everyone,
It is my pleasure to inform you that the official BioCatalogue iPhone and iPad app is now available on the app store for free download. Accessing and sharing the BioCatalogue's web service just got easier!
This app allows you to browse the catalogue for services, service providers, other BioCatalogue members. In addition to this, you can log into your BioCatalogue account through the app to view:
- your favou...
BioCatalogue.org unavailable for 1 hour on Wed 20th April 2011 from 09:30 (BST)
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
Due to maintenance, the BioCatalogue.org website will not be available for an hour on Wednesday 20th April 2011 from 09:30 (BST).
We apologise in advance for any inconveniences this may cause.
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The BioCatalogue team
Sandbox downtime between 19th - 21st April 2011
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
Due to network upgrades, the BioCatalogue sandbox (http://sandbox.biocatalogue.org) will be down from 07:00 (BST) on Tuesday 19th April 2011 until 09:00 (BST) on Thursday 21st April 2011.
Please note, this will NOT affect the live site (http://www.biocatalogue.org).
We apologise in advance for any inconveniences this may cause.
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The BioCatalogue team
Sandbox not available over the weekend
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
Due to network upgrades, the BioCatalogue sandbox (http://sandbox.biocatalogue.org) will be down from 18:00 (GMT) on Friday 25th March 2011 until 09:00 (GMT) on Monday 28th March 2011.
Please note, this will NOT affect the live site (http://www.biocatalogue.org).
We apologise in advance for any inconveniences this may cause.
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The BioCatalogue team
Webinar on Social Computing for Scientists: Building collaborative e-Laboratories, by Carole Goble
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
Carole Goble presented a Webinar on Social Computing for Scientists: Building collaborative e-Laboratories for the NCBO, on March 16th 2011. (Slides)
This featured MyExperiment, BioCatalogue, SEEK, and MethodBox.
"Over the past five years we ha...
BioCatalogue published in MIRIAM Resources
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
The BioCatalogue has been published in MIRIAM Resources.
The Minimal Information Requested In the Annotation of biochemical
Models (MIRIAM) Standard is an effort to standardise upon the essential,
minimal set of information that is sufficient to annotate a model in
such a way as to enable its reuse. MIRIAM is part of the BioModels.Net
initiative.
BioCatalogue in MIRIAM Resources :
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/miriam/main/datatypes/MIR:00000140
MIRIAM Resources homepage: http://www.ebi.ac...
Webinar on Taverna, myExperiment and BioCatalogue on March 8th 2011
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 7 years ago)
A live webinar on Taverna, myExperiment and BioCatalogue will be held by Paul Fisher on March 8th, 2011 at 16:00 GMT on BitesizeBio.
For details see http://bitesizebio.com/webinars/the-taverna-project/.
BioCatalogue Downtime - 7-10 January 2011
By
tlaurentAdmin
(over 7 years ago)
Due to urgent maintenance needed in the data centre hosting the BioCatalogue, the website and services provided by the BioCatalogue will not be available from Friday, January 7th 16:30 GMT and until Monday, January
10th 12:00 GMT.
We apologise for the late notice and inconvenience.
By
Eric E. NzuobontaneAdmin
(over 7 years ago)
Please be informed that there will be NO downtime of BioCatalogue on the 7th of December 2010 as previously announced. BioCatalogue is now expected to be live all day on the 7th, meaning you do not need to make any special arrangements with respect to using BioCatalogue on that date. Our systems maintenance will still go ahead but this will not affect BioCatalogue.
Thanks for your understanding.
The BioCatalogue Team
Have your say about BioCatalogue by taking part in the BioCatalogue users's survey
By
Franck Tanoh
(over 7 years ago)
The BioCatalogue team would like to invite you to take part in a survey, https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FN5RXLC, which we are conducting for the BioCatalogue project (http://www.biocatalogue.org/).
Its aim is to gather feedback about your views of the BioCatalogue. The purpose is to investigate how the BioCatalogue is being used, who uses it and how we can improve it. Your responses will provide us with valuable feedback and aid in ongoing improvement of the BioCatalogue and its content.
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BioCatalogue Maintenance - 7 December 2010 @ 9:30 am (GMT)
By
Eric E. NzuobontaneAdmin
(over 7 years ago)
There is a scheduled maintenance of systems at EMBL-EBI on the 7th of December 2010 which will affect the BioCatalogue (http://www.biocatalogue.org ). The maintenance work will start at 9:30 am ( GMT) and could last up to 3hrs. During this period, some services will be down including BioCatalogue.
Once the maintenance work is done and the services are back up again, we will send an email to confirm. If you need to contact us during the maintenance period, you can still send an email ...
BioCatalogue iPhone and iPad app now available to download for free
By
Franck Tanoh
(over 7 years ago)
The BioCatalogue app helps you search and browse the BioCatalogue from your iPhone or iPad.
It is available for download for free:
http://itunes.apple.com/app/biocatalogue-mobile/id389920173?mt=8
The app was developed by the Emory University team with the support of the BioCatalogue team.
More info about the app: https://wiki.service.emory.edu/display/cita/Emory+University+Releases+iPhone+app+for+BioCatalogue+registry
