= Service provider workgroup =

Here, we gather the major web service providers including BioMOBY projects and EBI, NCBI, and Japanese providers such as DDBJ, KEGG, PDBj, and CBRC.

 * Discuss current problems existing in each services:
  * Language dependencies
  * Naming conventions
  * Returned data type
  * Returned data size
  * Job managements
  * WSDL syntax violations
  * Timeouts
  * Sync and async
  * MIME attachments
  * Not implemented yet

 * How to integrate non-MOBY web service providers?
  * What kind of effort is needed to compromise with BioMOBY framework?

 * How to improve interoperability among the services?
  * Do you need proxy server to translate objects among services?
  * Object identity matching problem (LSID, BioMOBY)