Changes between Version 73 and Version 74 of WikiStart

Timestamp:

2008/01/30 13:13:42 (16 years ago)

Author:

hlapp

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WikiStart

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 == Summary ==
 
-The number of web service providers in bioinformatics field is increasing year by year.
-In theory, these services are interoperable and independent from computer languages.
+The number of web service providers in the field of bioinformatics is increasing every year.
+In theory, these services are interoperable and independent of specific computer languages.
 However, each service uses their own definition of the data types and naming conventions for the methods.
 Moreover, these services are often not usable by specific languages
 (partly, due to the lack of compliance of the SOAP/WSDL specification in the language's library).
 
-This situation prevents these services to be popularized for and used in combination by end users as a infrastructure of the daily research.
-The [http://www.biomoby.org/ BioMOBY] project has been tried to overcome the circumstances by defining ontologies for data types and methods used in the services.
-However, there are many major service providers which are not yet participated in the BioMOBY framework.
-Especially, there are several web service providers in Japan such as [http://www.xml.nig.ac.jp/ DDBJ], [http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/ KEGG],
-[http://www.pdbj.org/ PDBj] and [http://www.cbrc.jp/ CBRC] but none of them are not integrated in any context.
+This situation prevents these services from becoming popular among and used by end users and developers alike as an infrastructure of their daily research.
+The [http://www.biomoby.org/ BioMOBY] project has tried to overcome these problems by defining ontologies for data types and methods used in the services.
+However, there are many major service providers which are not yet participating in the BioMOBY framework.
+For example, there are several web service providers in Japan such as [http://www.xml.nig.ac.jp/ DDBJ], [http://www.genome.jp/kegg/soap/ KEGG],
+[http://www.pdbj.org/ PDBj] and [http://www.cbrc.jp/ CBRC] but none of them are integrated in any way.
 
-Thus, at [http://www.dbcls.jp/en/ DBCLS], we started to develop a new proxy server which translates user's request for the appropriate web service provider.
-If all [http://www.open-bio.org/ Open Bio*] libraries support BioMOBY and other service providers, interoperability of these services can be significantly improved.
-Here, we need agreement for the future direction of web services by every web service providers and client developers.
+Thus, at [http://www.dbcls.jp/en/ DBCLS], we started to develop a new proxy server which translates user's request for the appropriate web service providers.
+If all [http://www.open-bio.org/ Open Bio*] libraries support BioMOBY and other service providers, interoperability among these services can be significantly improved.
+Here, we need agreement about the future direction of web services by every web service provider and by client developers.
 
-We believe gathering all web service providers to discuss about the standardization of objects and methods among web services,
+We believe gathering all web service providers to discuss the standardization of objects and methods among web services,
 and Open Bio* library developers from different programming languages ([http://www.bioperl.org/ BioPerl], [http://www.biopython.org/ BioPython],
-[http://www.bioruby.org/ BioRuby], and [http://www.biojava.org/ BioJava]) to discuss about the implementation of the common infrastructure,
+[http://www.bioruby.org/ BioRuby], and [http://www.biojava.org/ BioJava]) to discuss the implementation of the common infrastructure,
 must benefit usability and interoperability for the life science in the next era.
 
-For this purpose, we hope to organize a !BioHackathon specialized for the web services from four different domains.
+For this purpose, we hope to organize a !BioHackathon focusing on web services from four different domains.
 
  * Web service providers
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    * Increasing the number of SOAP compliant services (tools/databases)
  * Open Bio* developers
-  * Utilizing every bioinformatics web services by 4 major computer languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, Java)
+  * Utilizing every bioinformatics web service by 4 major computer languages (Perl, Python, Ruby, Java)
    * Creating compatible classes for sequences, expressions, pathways etc. among Open Bio* libraries
  * Workflow client developers
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  * BioMOBY project developers
   * Standardizing the objects and methods in bioinformatics web services via BioMOBY
-   * Discussing about the best solution of the framework and the ontologies for life science
+   * Discussing the best solution of the framework and the ontologies for life science
 
 == Topics ==
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   * Free broadband Internet connection
   * Free coffee and bread for breakfast
-  * You can find convenience stores and the Starbacks coffee nearby
+  * You can find convenience stores and the Starbucks coffee nearby
   * Good access to the Ginza shopping street and the Tsukiji market (famous for Sushi restaurants)
 
 == Access ==
 
-How to get from [http://www.narita-airport.jp/ Tokyo Narita International Airport]?
+How to get there from [http://www.narita-airport.jp/ Tokyo Narita International Airport]?
 
  * By bus (JPY 3,000, 90min - easiest, recommended if you bring a heavy suitcase)