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Briefings in Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on January 31, 2008
Briefings in Bioinformatics 2008 9(3):220-231; doi:10.1093/bib/bbn003
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press. For Permissions, please email: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Interoperability with Moby 1.0—It's better than sharing your toothbrush!

The BioMoby Consortium *

Corresponding author. Dr Mark Wilkinson, Room 166, 1081 Burrard St. The Heart and Lung Research Institute at St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V6G 1Y3. Tel: +1 604 682 2344 x62129; Fax: +1 604 806 9274; E-mail: markw{at}illuminae.com

The BioMoby project was initiated in 2001 from within the model organism database community. It aimed to standardize methodologies to facilitate information exchange and access to analytical resources, using a consensus driven approach. Six years later, the BioMoby development community is pleased to announce the release of the 1.0 version of the interoperability framework, registry Application Programming Interface and supporting Perl and Java code-bases. Together, these provide interoperable access to over 1400 bioinformatics resources worldwide through the BioMoby platform, and this number continues to grow. Here we highlight and discuss the features of BioMoby that make it distinct from other Semantic Web Service and interoperability initiatives, and that have been instrumental to its deployment and use by a wide community of bioinformatics service providers. The standard, client software, and supporting code libraries are all freely available at http://www.biomoby.org/.

Keywords: semantic web, web services, interoperability, data integration, biomoby, schema

*Full authorship: Mark D Wilkinson, Martin Senger, Edward Kawas, Richard Bruskiewich, Jerome Gouzy, Celine Noirot, Philippe Bardou, Ambrose Ng, Dirk Haase, Enrique de Andres Saiz, Dennis Wang, Frank Gibbons, Paul M.K. Gordon, Christoph W. Sensen, Jose Manuel Rodriguez Carrasco, José M. Fernández, Lixin Shen, Matthew Links, Michael Ng, Nina Opushneva, Pieter B.T. Neerincx, Jack A.M. Leunissen, Rebecca Ernst, Simon Twigger, Bjorn Usadel, Benjamin Good, Yan Wong, Lincoln Stein, William Crosby, Johan Karlsson, Romina Royo, Iván Párraga, Sergio Ramírez, Josep Lluis Gelpi, Oswaldo Trelles, David G. Pisano, Natalia Jimenez, Arnaud Kerhornou, Roman Rosset, Leire Zamacola, Joaquin Tarraga, Jaime Huerta-Cepas, Jose María Carazo, Joaquin Dopazo, Roderic Guigo, Arcadi Navarro, Modesto Orozco, Alfonso Valencia, M. Gonzalo Claros, Antonio J. Pérez, Jose Aldana, M. Mar Rojano, Raul Fernandez-Santa Cruz, Ismael Navas, Gary Schiltz, Andrew Farmer, Damian Gessler, Heiko Schoof, Andreas Groscurth.

Submitted: November 16, 2007. Received (in revised form): January 2, 2008.


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