= Open Bio* Workgroup = I would like to get an overview about current support and implementations of web services in every Open Bio* libraries (!BioPerl, !BioPython, !BioRuby and !BioJava) and hope to discuss the following: * What can be done with the Open Bio* projects to support interoperability? * Is it worth trying to mapping BioMOBY data objects (BioMOBY triplets) to Bio* library specific data strucuture? * Why not use complexType in SOAP to automate object creation? * Could a webservice be defined to allow Bio* interoperability? This would require a common exchange format. Possibly one of the XML formats used by NCBI or EBI. Could a webservice backed with BioSQL provide and persistent objects in this format? * What part should be done on the web service provider's side and what is the part left best to be addressed in Open Bio* libraries? * Format exchange, job management, sequence manipulation ... * What fraction of the bioinfomatics field is covered by current Open Bio* library and what subset of those is covered by web services?