1. Mobyle 1.0: new features,
new types of services
Hervé Ménager, Bertrand Néron, Vivek
Gopalan, Sandrine Larroudé, Julien Maupetit, Adrien
Saladin,
Pierre Tuffery, Yentram Huyen, Bernard Caudron
Bioinformatics Open Source Conference, July 15th, 2011

2. What is Mobyle

3. Providing an access to bioinformatics
resources for biologists
?

4. New types of services: Workflows
● Beyond the existing
"interactive
pipe" functionality
● Automated chaining or
sequential/parallel jobs
● base is the same XML
description as the other
types of services,
● specificity: Execution
specified as the
coordinated execution
of multiple tasks

5. Workflow forms

6. Workflow results

7. Workflow details and monitoring

8. Workflows portal integration
● In the portal's left menu,
searchable and sortable the same way
as programs.
● In the "interactive pipe" menus

9. Viewers: VARNA example

10. Viewers: implementation
● base is the same XML description as the other types of
services,
● specificity: includes a template for a custom chunk of HTML
code.

11. Other existing viewers

12. Soon: viewers are good, editors are better!

13. Other new features
● Improved workspace management:
○ easier workspace cleanup
○ bookmark->service links
● Execution engine flexibility
○ multiple DRMs configuration allowed and multi-DRM
job routing.
○ new supported DRM: LSF
● OpenID authentication thanks to
Olivier Sallou
● Google Analytics reporting integration (GenOuest)

14. Acknowledgements
Institut Pasteur GenOuest
Bertrand Néron Olivier Sallou
Sandrine Larroudé Anthony Bretaudeau
Corinne Maufrais
Nicolas Joly NIAID BCBB
Bernard Caudron Vivek Gopalan
Sophie Créno Yentram Huyen
NCSU And many others...
Ignazio Carbone
Trent Monacell
RPBS
Julien Maupetit
Pierre Tufféry
Adrien Saladin
LIPM Toulouse
Sébastien Carrère