From markw at illuminae.com  Thu Apr 13 17:10:05 2006
From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark Wilkinson)
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 14:10:05 -0700
Subject: [MOBY-l] Service Encyclopedia updated
Message-ID: <op.s7ys231dnbznux@wayyye>

Hi all,

I've spent the day "playing" :-)

The MOBY Service Encyclopaedia, originally written by Ken Stuebe, is now  
updated and enhanced in functionality.  It allows searching over the  
ontologies and the registry by keyword, and "surfing" from one service  
description to the next based on input and output.  It will also show a  
scaffold representation of any given MOBY object to make it easier to  
figure out what the XML of any given object will look like.

Please "play" also, and let me know if there are any functionalities that  
you would like to see added.

http://biomoby.open-bio.org/index.php/moby-clients/registry_clients

Cheers!

P.S. I know it isn't an attractive interface, but beauty is only skin deep  
anyway...

From markw at illuminae.com  Tue Apr 18 17:27:44 2006
From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark Wilkinson)
Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 14:27:44 -0700
Subject: [MOBY-l] Dramatic increase in MOBY traffic this year
Message-ID: <1145395664.20424.27.camel@bioinfo.icapture.ubc.ca>

Hi all, 

I just ran the weblogs on MOBY Central for my quarterly report to Genome
Canada, and I was astonished!  There were nearly 1/2 Million requests
for service brokering in March 2006, up from ~130,000 in January.  This
may coincide with the two new clients that were published in
Boinformatics earlier this year... but...

WOW!   8-)  8-) 

Mark

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       a pipe between physical locations on the planet. 
What's happened now is that the conduit has become so big and interesting 
      that communication has become more than a conduit, 
       it has become a destination in its own right..."

                Paul Saffo - Director, Institute for the Future


From markw at illuminae.com  Tue Apr 25 10:53:45 2006
From: markw at illuminae.com (Mark Wilkinson)
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 07:53:45 -0700
Subject: [MOBY-l] updating MOBY Central with input/output articleNames
Message-ID: <op.s8kjnvyjnbznux@wayyye.tigr.org>

Hi all,

A few months ago the spec for service registration was tightened such that  
all inputs and outputs require an articleName.  This is now required also  
in Taverna workflows, and as such, many "illegitimate" services currently  
in the registry will not function with Taverna even though they are  
perfectly functional in reality.

Given that these services are not looking for an articleName, it will do  
no harm to them if one were added.  Thus the fastest way to bring all  
service registrations back into compliance with the API would be for me to  
manipulate the MOBY Central database directly and add "dummy" articleNames  
("input", "output") to all inputs and outputs that are currently un-named.

Would this bother anyone?  Please let me know ASAP.

Mark