BioCatalogue - Announcements

ELIXIR Tools registry 'community paper' published in NAR

By Niall BeardAdmin (about 4 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 4 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...

Scheduled Maintenance

By Niall BeardAdmin (almost 6 years ago)

Biocatalogue must briefly go down for essential maintenance at 15:30pm GMT Friday 11th April 2014

BioCatalogue Rails 3 Upgrade

By Aleksandra NenadicAdmin (about 6 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 (about 7 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 (about 7 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 7 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 (over 7 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 (about 8 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 8 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 (over 8 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. -- The BioCatalogue team

Sandbox downtime between 19th - 21st April 2011