MOBY:A World-Wide Distributed Bioinformatics Analysis System

生物信息学的一个长期问题是需要获取、分析和发布信息。既然已经尝试了集中式和分布式解决方案，现在的问题是如何跨不同平台集成信息。该建议将使用web服务代理模型的组合客户机/服务器、点对点实现，为实现集成提供一个通用体系结构。这集中了关于数据和服务所在位置的信息，同时允许分布式数据采集和服务调用。模型生物数据库开发人员的核心已经支持该体系结构。该项目将提供图形实现和注释源，以及应用程序编程接口和四种模式生物的原理证明。这种数据的整合可以改变利用互联网和社区的分布式专业知识进行研究和教育的方式。

A long-term problem in bioinformatics is the need to access, analyze, and publish information. Since both central and distributed solutions have been tried, the problem is now how to integrate the information across different platforms. This proposal will provide a general architecture for achieving the integration, using a combined client/server, peer-to-peer implementation of the web service broker model. This centralizes information about where data and services are located while allowing distributed data acquisition and service invocation. A core of model organism database developers already supports the architecture. The project will deliver a graphical implementation and annotation source as well as an application programming interface and proof of principle for four model organisms. This integration of data can change the way research and education occur using the Internet and the distributed expertise of the community.