We (Duke Bioinformatics Shared Resource) are going to make a concerted effort to create a software package that allows the piping of web services. We are going to focus on bioinformatics web services, though the project should be generally applicable to all web services. We are now in the process of applying for a grant.
A few questions: 1. We plan for these tools to be open source. Is there a place for this under BioJava? Of some concern: we will be defining some bioinformatics data types with java interfaces and XML schemas for common bioinformatics programs. We will also be providing interfaces for web services, as well as implementations (implementations will most likely have abstract functions for returning installation dependent information e.g. path to blast databases). Will this sort of thing fit under BioJava? I believe the GUI and mechanics of piping would fall under BioJava with no problem (let me know if I am wrong in this assumption), but I was unsure whether application-specific code would fit. 2. Is there anyone interested in collaborating on this project? The level of collaboration can vary from consulting on ideas to testing beta applications to actual software coding. I will be coming up with a list of sub-projects sometime in the near future (check the link below for the current ***rough*** list). 3. Assuming their is a place for this in BioJava, should collaboration on this project continue over this mailing list, or should a new list be created? If anyone is interested, they can see http://mendel.mc.duke.edu:8090/frameworks/webservices/index.html for a more in-depth description (hopefully it will become progressively more in-depth as time progresses). I am pretty excited about this project. I think it could provide the impetous for sites adding more flexible services to their arsenal in addition to the standard (and programmatically clumsy) CGI applications. -Patrick "Mario Gianota" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>@biojava.org on 04/11/2002 05:09:58 PM Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: Subject: Re: [Biojava-l] BioInformatics toolbox. > This is my first time writing to this list, so I think I should introduce > myself. My name is Patrick McConnell, and I am a scientific program at the [snip] Wow. These new AI programs are getting _really_ clever ! :-^ Hi Patrick. Your comments and thoughts are pretty much aligned with mine and Matt Gundersen's. We're both in favour of a plugin based GUI pipeline framework. I hadn't thought about the 'service publication and provision' infrastructure but it is clear that Web Services are one way to solve this quite neatly. --Mario _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l _______________________________________________ Biojava-l mailing list - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://biojava.org/mailman/listinfo/biojava-l
