1. JitenBhagatUniversity of Manchesterjiten.bhagat@manchester.ac.uk ENFIN Enabling Systems Biology 2011 April 2011 | London, UK http://www.biocatalogue.org

2. Agenda 2 Talk Intro Motivations Core Features Website Demo API Conclusions & Lessons Learned BONUS: iPad Demo by MannieTagarira

3. The BioCatalogue 3 A public, centralised and curated registry of Life Science Web Services Allows anyone to register, discover and curate Web Services Community oriented, expert guidance Open content, open source, open platform

4. Public launch at ISMB 2009 (June 09) 4

5. Reach ~18K unique visitors from over 130 countries 5

6. Who 6

7. Motivations (I) Guesstimate 3000+ publicly available online services in Life Sciences Where? can I find them? advertise them? What? do they do? can I use them? the cost? the licenses? How? do they work? up to date? Who? provides them? uses them? recommends them? 7

8. Motivations (II) Discover “Web Services are hard to find” Register “My Web Services are not visible” Annotate “Web Services are poorly described” Monitor “Web Services can be volatile” 8

9. Core Features Web Service registration Annotation descriptions, tags, categories, example data Keyword search Filtering By categories, providers, location, etc Monitoring Checking availability Test scripts 9

10. WEBSITE DEMO 10

11. API 11 Programmatic access to the BioCatalogue data and features Read & Write APIs Get index of services Search for services Filter services Drill down into the operations / endpoints of a service Register services Submit annotations Follows REST principles (XML & JSON outputs)

12. NCRI ONIX Resource Catalogue 12

13. BioCatalogue in Taverna ISMB 10 13

14. Mass Curation Tool To aid the curation of Web Services via the use of spreadsheets Uses the BioCatalogue’s API Desktop application Browse/Search the BioCatalogue Export to an Excel Spreadsheet Annotate Submit annotations to the BioCatalogue 14

15. Mass Curation Tool 15 ISMB 10

16. Apps - Coming Soon 13th April 2011 ENFIN Enabling Systems Biology 2011 16 iPad app (exclusive demo after this) Android app myExperiment integration

17. EdUnify Registry ISMB 10 17 https://demo.edunify.pesc.org/ - Web Services for Education https://wiki.service.emory.edu/display/er/EdUnify+-+Useful+Links

18. Some Lessons Learnt Describing Web Services is HARD We need to provide comprehensive APIs to the registry The SOAP/REST technical view over services is not enough Need a more functional / task-oriented view 18

19. How Can You Get Involved? Join in the curation of Web Services Describe how they work Provide examples Tag and categorise Join in the development of the software Build applications / integrate using the API Install your own BioCatalogue instance Provide feedback and suggestions 19

20. Acknowledgements Rodrigo Lopez Eric Nzuobontane Thomas Laurent Hamish McWilliams Carole Goble David De Roure JitenBhagat Katy Wolstencroft Franck Tanoh Steve Pettifer Robert Stevens 20 SergejsAleksejevs MannieTagarira JerzyOrlowski

22. Thank You Over to Mannie… http://www.biocatalogue.org About Us - http://wiki.biocatalogue.org API Docs - http://apidocs.biocatalogue.org 22 Bhagat, J., Tanoh, F., Nzuobontane, E., Laurent, T., Orlowski, J., Roos, M., Wolstencroft, K., Aleksejevs, S., Stevens, R., Pettifer, S., Lopez, R., Goble, C.A.: BioCatalogue: a universal catalogue of web services for the life sciences, Nucl. Acids Res., 2010. doi:10.1093/nar/gkq394