[Go] GO Web Services

[Rama Balakrishnan]

Jim,

Thanks for clarifying.

Rama

On Mar 30, 2008, at 10:08 AM, Jim Hu wrote:

> Hi Rama,
>
> I'm not sure what the others are talking about, but formally, web  
> services are not the same as web-based tools.
> Web services in my usage is stuff where a structured query  
> dynamically returns something like an XML file that is readable by  
> a computer.  For example, EcoliWiki is a web-based tool, and I've  
> been working on implementing a web service that takes a gene  
> identifier and returns a structured XML document with the GO  
> associations for that gene.  The distinction between web services  
> and frequently updated downloads is a bit blurry in my mind.
>
> Other examples include the E-Utils at PubMed, DAS for gbrowse, and  
> the stuff you don't see in the background that updates Amazon pages  
> from different publishers.   See
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_service
>
> Jim
>
>
> On Mar 30, 2008, at 11:49 AM, Rama Balakrishnan wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> May be I am missing the obvious here.
>>
>> We already have a page for GO tools-http://www.geneontology.org/
>> GO.tools.shtml
>> and this page is organized by what is web-based, downloadable,
>> provided by GO etc.
>>
>> What will the proposed GO web services page include?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Rama
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mar 28, 2008, at 5:01 AM, Suzanna Lewis wrote:
>>
>>> 2 pages perhaps? One for those services that we (already) offer,  
>>> and a
>>> second for those from others.
>>>
>>> -S
>>>
>>> On Mar 28, 2008, at 12:17 PM, Judith Blake wrote:
>>>
>>>> I think this is an excellent idea...
>>>>
>>>> I particularly like these services that would be useful to our  
>>>> users
>>>> but
>>>> that don't require that we set up toolshops.
>>>>
>>>> judy
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Michael Ashburner wrote:
>>>>> Should we have a page on GO for GO web services ?
>>>>>
>>>>> GoPubMed
>>>>> Andreas Schlicker (MPI-INF) functional similarity is another
>>>>>
>>>>> M
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