Re: [Myexperiment-discuss] Wrapping a Runner with a web service

[Jiten Bhagat]

Hi Scott,

We've had a brief discussion on this at the myGrid meeting with the view 
that this may not be myExperiment specific. Could you also post this to 
the Taverna-hackers 
(http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/taverna-hackers) mailing 
list (but feel free to keep myExperiment-discuss cc'ed).

Thanks,
Jits


M. Scott Marshall wrote:

> Hi Marco,
>
> As we were recently discussing, I think that 
> myExperiment/Taverna/BioCatalogue would be interesting to the Pistoia 
> project[1], which will assemble data standards, services, and 
> ontologies for the Pharmaceutical Drug Discovery workflow. Note 
> carefully that the participants of this project are the Heads of 
> (Chem)IT for several not terribly small Pharma companies.
>
> While formulating my ideas about this to pose to Pistoia members, I 
> came up with a technical question and would like to know who can help 
> me with the answer. The question is about plans for creating web 
> service wrappers for workflow Runners on myExperiment. This is now 
> within reach, isn't it? Or is this desire-induced delusion on my part? 
> The ramifications are HUGE: composition of workflows via web service 
> interfaces can become trivial and myExperiment could provide web 
> (REST) access to executing them.
>
> Best,
> Scott
>
> [1] http://sourceforge.net/projects/pistoia
>
> P.S. Don't think that I can post this to the myGrid list. Is it 
> appropriate?