= BioMOBY Workgroup = == Understanding BioMOBY project == Presentation by Mark Wilkinson and others * to make every web service providers understand what does the BioMOBY is * current status of the BioMOBY project and how the sites integrated by BioMOBY works * current status of the [http://sswap.info/ semantic MOBY] and its practical usages or goals Read the following article before the hackathon will be of your help * Interoperability With Moby 1.0 – It’s Better Than Sharing Your Toothbrush! * Preprint at Briefings in Bioinformatics http://bib.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/bbn003v1 * Alternative site http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1486/version/1 * PDF version http://precedings.nature.com/documents/1486/version/1/files/npre20081486-1.pdf == Discussion Items == * What is the best solution for integration of the web services? * Why BioMOBY uses the original XML format (BioMOBY triple) instead of SOAP's complexType? * If only XML is exchanged among services, there is no need for SOAP. Should we start BioREST? * Is there no redundancy in the current ontology of the BioMOBY objects and its inheritance? * How to integrate arising new data structures such as pathways, metabolomics, and proteomics? * Is there any performance bottleneck in the current system of the BioMOBY? * What kind of efforts have been made to popularize BioMOBY * Why all web services are not compatible with BioMOBY yet? * What is the strength of BioMOBY compared with non-BioMOBY web services? * What kind of improvements can be made from now? * Which languages can be used to create BioMOBY clients (only Perl and Java for now?) * [wiki:MOBYRubyClient] * Is there a need for refinemet of the current ontologies for data types and methods? * Is it possible to implement BioMOBY client library in every Open Bio* projects? * Is it a best way to utilize BioMOBY to integrate NCBI, EBI, KEGG, DDBJ etc. (or is it reasonable to create a proxy server which converts these services compatible with BioMOBY)? * What kind of alternative approach have been made? * EMBRACE