= Service provider Workgroup =

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

 * 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)

 * How to treat the needs for the REST services?
  * Here's PDBj's REST API (prototype): http://doc.pdbj.org/help.cgi?REST%20API
  * EBI's REST API http://www.ebi.ac.uk/Tools/webservices/tutorials/rest