The BioCatalogue Functional Unit paper presented at IEEE 2010 Fourth International Workshop on Scientific Workflows
By
Franck Tanoh
(almost 9 years ago)
Functional Units: Abstractions for Web Service Annotations
"The work presented in this paper stems from the observation that current annotation models force users to think in terms of service interfaces, rather than of high-level functionality, thus reducing their effectiveness. To alleviate this problem, we introduce the Functional Units (FU) as the elementary units of information used to describe a service. Using popular examples of services for the Life Sciences, we define FUs as config...
BioCatalogue and Taverna featured on the OpenHelix Blog
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(about 9 years ago)
The BioCatalogue and Taverna projects were featured today on the OpenHelix Blog in a post by Mary Mangan.
Mary does a nice job of explaining the purpose of the BioCatalogue, and has also put together a very cool introductory video (available on the blog post).
More about the OpenHelix Blog (from their ab...
New BioCatalogue Release on Wednesday May 26, 2010 between 15:00-17:00 (GMT+1)
By
Eric E. NzuobontaneAdmin
(over 9 years ago)
We will be deploying a new release of the BioCatalogue on Wednesday May 26, 2010 between 15:00 and 17:00 (GMT+1). Downtime during this upgrade is expected to be less than 10 minutes. Some of the main features included in this release are:
The ability to check for updates of WSDL services and automatically refresh BioCatalogue content
Allowing users to request for permission to manage service entries in BioCatalogue
Ability to mark services as archived...
myExperiment and BioCatalogue
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(over 9 years ago)
myExperiment is a sister project of the BioCatalogue - it provides a web 2.0 repository for sharing scientific workflows and other research objects, with social networking elements. If you've not used it, check out
http://www.myexperiment.org/ and
http://wiki.myexperiment.org.
We're just commencing the first part of an integration between myExperiment and Biocatalogue - this will make it easy for myExperiment users to access service information, navigating to BioCatalogue for further detai...
BioCatalogue plugin for Taverna 2.1.2
By
Alan WIlliams
(over 9 years ago)
An alpha version of the BioCatalogue plugin for Taverna 2.1.2 -
http://www.taverna.org.uk - is now available to try out. The plugin allows users to browse services on
http://www.biocatalogue.org and add them to their workflows. The plugin has been written by Sergejs Aleksejevs who was also the main developer of the myExperiment perspective for Taverna.
To install the plugin, go to Advanced -> Updates and plugins in the Workbench, and click
BioCatalogue Maintenance - Tuesday March 9, 2010
By
Eric E. NzuobontaneAdmin
(over 9 years ago)
We are planning some maintenance work on BioCatalogue on Tuesday March 9, 2010 between 16:00-19:00 GMT.
We expect this maintenance work to take at about 2-3 hours. We are making every effort to reduce downtime to as little as possible. We expect this downtime to be less than half an hour.
In the unlikely event that you experience any difficulties after this maintenance exercise, we would be most pleased if you could contact us as soon as p...
Please, complete the BioCatalogue uses and gratifications surveys
By
Franck Tanoh
(over 9 years ago)
We are conducting a survey to evaluate the uses and gratifications of
the BioCatalogue. The purpose of this study is to investigate how
BioCatalogue is being used and to gain an understanding of what users
like about using BioCatalogue.
Your responses to the study will provide us with valuable feedback and
aid in ongoing improvement of the BioCatalogue and its services.
It should take you less than 10 min to complete the survey.
Find the survey here:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/FR...
Latest Update - Dec 09 - Happy Holidays!
By
Jiten BhagatAdmin
(over 9 years ago)
Hello All,
As part of the last release, which includes the Search by Data feature mentioned in a previous email, we have updated
http://www.biocatalogue.org with the following:
- A brand new homepage that tells you what is currently happening in the BioCatalogue and gives more information about the project in general.
- Revamped header with a smaller footprint and clearer navigation options.
- Ability to annotate Service Provider profiles with preferred display name, alternative names...
Search the BioCatalogue with your data
By
Franck Tanoh
(over 9 years ago)
We have released a brand new "Search by data" feature. It allows
you to query for services that might analyze or process a given real
data. For example, given a Fasta file, it returns a list of services
that possibly consume sequences in Fasta format.
To access the feature go to:
www.biocatalogue.org/search/by_data
or click on a drop-down button just on the right site of "Providers" link.
We would appreciate any suggestions or comments which will help us to
improve this feature.
...
BioCatalogue Annotation Jamboree - today
By
Franck Tanoh
(over 9 years ago)
There is a BioCatalogue annotation jamboree in Manchester today.
The goals are to annotate web services in a group effort and to discuss how bio web services could and should be annotated.
Join in with the annotation!!!!
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