MOBY:A World-Wide Distributed Bioinformatics Analysis System

生物信息学的一个长期问题是需要访问、分析和发布信息。 由于集中式和分布式解决方案都已经尝试过，现在的问题是如何跨不同平台集成信息。 该提案将提供一个通用架构，用于实现集成，使用组合的客户端/服务器，对等网络服务代理模型的实现。 这集中了有关数据和服务所在位置的信息，同时允许分布式数据获取和服务调用。 模型生物数据库开发人员的核心已经支持该架构。 该项目将提供一个图形化的实现和注释源，以及一个应用程序编程接口和四个模式生物的原理证明。 这种数据的整合可以改变研究和教育的方式，使用互联网和社区的分布式专业知识。

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.