Interoperability with Moby 1.0--it's better than sharing your toothbrush!

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/.

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

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