BioMOBY workgroup

Firstly, I would like to ask Dr. Mark Wilkinson to give us a keynote address for the following objectives:

• 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  semantic MOBY and its practical usages or goals

and I would like to discuss about:

• 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?)
    • 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)?