Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of CallForParticipation200711

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2007/12/10 23:47:53 (16 years ago)

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anonymous

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CallForParticipation200711

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+= Call for participation for Web Service Hackathon =
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+ * The contents in this page is obsoleted - see  [wiki:CallForParticipation] for the latest version
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+Dear all,
+
+Database Center for Life Science (DBCLS) is planning to have a !BioHackathon
+for the Web Service in next January or February and hope to invite all of you to Japan
+(currently considering upto 20 developers from abroad and other 20 developers
+from Japan in total). We can offer your travel fare and accommodation fee
+by the DBCLS budget.
+
+DBCLS (http://dbcls.jp/en/) is a non-profit research institution funded by
+MEXT (http://www.mext.go.jp/english/), established on the April 2007 and
+will continue for the 4 years. One of our goals is to integrate bioinformatics
+web services in a unified and convenient manner.
+
+For this purpose, I'm planning to develop a proxy server which translate
+user's query for appropriate web service provider (e.g. EBI, KEGG, BioMOBY etc.)
+and formalize the returned data structures, so that user can easily build
+their own workflow without bothered by the data format conversion.
+
+This view is partly based on the comment by Tom Oinn in BOSC2007 - even a sequence
+object in BioPerl is not compatible with other Bio* libraries - I strongly agree
+with it. We should define "50 basic bioinformatics data types" and implement them
+by refactoring current Bio* libraries, then use them in every web services.
+
+BioMOBY has been served as a initial repository for various web services, however,
+there are hundreds of data types are listed and many of them are very similar.
+I think they need to be re-organized as the naming convention of the methods and
+data types currently used are extremely diverged. I suppose this situation restrict
+the interoperability of the services, and to develop any bioinformatics workflow,
+user needs to consult with (poor, in some cases) documentations.
+
+So, I hope to gather as many developers as we can, from major web service providers,
+from Bio* developers, and other integrated service providers like BioMOBY and Taverna,
+to discuss and develop a new Open Bio* standard for the web-service-centric
+bioinformatics-nation (TM).
+
+I'm preferentially writing you to hear any input to finalize our objectives of
+the web service hackathon, as my current knowledge on BioMOBY, myGrid, Taverna
+and other web services are very limited.
+
+From my experience as a developer of the BioRuby library and the KEGG API service,
+I'm still stick with the SOAP/WSDL services even though the REST is the current trend.
+Because,
+ * every SOAP server speaks the same language
+  * cost to develop a client code can be minimal
+  * user doesn't need any parser (cf. DAS spec etc.)
+  * user can easily pass any complex data structure (including <ComplexType>)
+ * we can also provide REST service if appropriate
+
+On behalf of the DBCLS,
+
+Toshiaki Katayama
+
+--
+
+Human Genome Center, Institute of Medical Science, University of Tokyo
+
+4-6-1 Shirokanedai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0071, Japan
+
+tel://+81-3-5449-5614
+
+fax://+81-3-5449-5434
+
+http://www.hgc.jp/ (Human Genome Center)
+
+http://bioruby.org/ (BioRuby project)
+
+http://das.hgc.jp/ (KEGG DAS)
+
+http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/ (KEGG API)
+