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Mark Wilkinson, University of British Columbia Title: Web Service Interoperability - It's better than sharing your toothbrush! Abstract: In 2001 a "grassroots" group of biological data and analytical service providers came together to discuss how they might work towards interoperability. From this meeting, the BioMoby consortium was founded, and recently published the 1.0 version of their API and accompanying codebases. BioMoby uses a set of ontologies to describe bioinformatics data-types, data syntaxes, and analytical operations, and participating service providers design their Web Services to utilize these to create machine-readable interfaces. An ontology-aware Web Service registry allows semi or fully-automated discovery and execution of these services. The Moby platform is currently used to support >1400 interoperable Web Services in 13 countries spanning morethan 50 independent service providers. I will discuss the details of BioMoby that make it distinct from other interoperability projects, the features that allowed it to become so successful, and the errors we made along the way. I will then describe the next generation of BioMoby and how we intend to exploit the newly emergent Semantic Web technologies to simplify the process of data discovery and analysis for our biologist-end-users. Tags: BioMoby, Interoperability, Web Services, Semantic Web |
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