On 11/05/10 12:11, Alan Williams wrote: > Wei Tan wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I've read from multiple sources saying that, Taverna can access >> 3000+ bioinformatics related Web services. >> I would like to cite it, so could someone provide a source of this >> statement? >> > Hello, > > Jit has just checked and there are 8770 soap operations within the > BioCatalogue. That though includes soap operations corresponding to 397 > SoapLab services. Each SoapLab service is 5 soap operations so by my > calculations that is 6785 WSDL operations that Taverna could have as > services. If you add in the SoapLab services that are available as > SoapLab 1 then you'll get over 7000 Taverna "services" from the > BioCatalogue. > However, if you include soaplab "tools" or "applications" as individual operations, then the total count of operations could be far greater than that. Although each soaplab service has 5 operation from the raw WSDL perspective, these could actually be mapped to many more individual Soaplab tools.
Stuart. [snip] > You also need to consider how to count BioMart query services. There > are about 430 different databases to query; you also need to multiply > that by the different filters and extracted attributes. > > So 3000 seems an underestimate. There are at least 7000, and probably a > lot more. > > >> Thanks a lot in advance! >> >> Wei >> > Alan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > taverna-users mailing list > [email protected] > [email protected] > Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk > Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ taverna-users mailing list [email protected] [email protected] Web site: http://www.taverna.org.uk Mailing lists: http://www.taverna.org.uk/about/contact-us/
