[BBF Standards] data exchange -- say no to web services

[Raik Gruenberg]

BTW, the BioHackaton illustrates perfectly why we do *not* want to use web 
services for data exchange ;-) :

> 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 its own
 > definition of data types and method naming conventions. Moreover,
 > theseservices are often not usable by specific languages (partly, due to the
 > lack of compliance of the SOAP/WSDL specification in the language's library).

... and then they need to fix up the mess with an extra layer of ontologies of 
web services while the actual data seem to remain undescribed and disconnected.

Anyway, just wanted to prime the discussion about data exchange technologies ;-)

Greetings,
Raik

Jason Morrison wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> Not sure what the overlap in interest is, but there's apparently a 
> BioHackathon going on next week, http://hackathon.dbcls.jp/ with some 
> interesting development going on.  It looks like it focuses on OpenBio* 
> (BioPerl, BioPython, BioJava, BioRuby, [etc?]) development, as well as 
> BioMOBY development:
> 
>     What is MOBY?
>     The MOBY system for interoperability between biological data hosts
>     and analytical services
> 
>     The MOBY-S system defines an ontology-based messaging standard
>     through which a client will be able to automatically discover and
>     interact with task-appropriate biological data and analytical
>     service providers, without requiring manual manipulation of data
>     formats as data flows from one provider to the next.
> 
> 
> The takeaway from this could be anything, ranging from a very interested 
> individual trying to coordinate some remote hacking with Skype or IRC 
> (so long as the cut Pacific data lines don't interfere ;), to an 
> interested onlooker seeking to absorb some lessons learned and look for 
> opportunities to take advantage of existing or emerging standards for 
> data stores, store/query structure, and UI/APIs.
> 
> Thoughts?
> Jason
> 
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> Jason Morrison
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