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test README # # Revision History # # 18/02/2003 - Richard Bruskiewich [r.bruskiewich@cgiar.org] - # README replaced @ the Singapore BioHackethon # # 31/01/2003 - Matt Links [links@cs.usask.ca] - original README # INTRODUCTION MOBY is a "Web Services" architecture for bioinformatic information, using a combination of common internet web services technology (i.e. SOAP, XML, WSDL, etc.) and suitable XML ontologies for biological datatypes and related services. For full current information, go to the official project web site: http://www.biomoby.org. This file merely provides a basic road map to the MOBY distribution to get a basic installation installed. At the highest level, this MOBY distribution is structured into subdirectories corresponding to: * Docs: general (non-language specific) documentation about MOBY, including datatype and service ontologies, plus related information (i.e. standard datatype schemas) * Database: database configuration files (i.e. Central SQL, etc.) * Specific language implementations for MOBY: Perl, Java MOBY essentially consists of three interacting web software systems: * MOBY Service Providers - internet agents providing bioinformatics information and/or services using MOBY service transaction protocols * MOBY Central - the "yellow pages" of MOBY services to which Service Providers have previously registered the details of their web services * MOBY Client - any software that can make, using MOBY service transaction protocols, service requests to MOBY Service Providers using service information it obtains from a MOBY Central registry. Under each language specific directory, there is a README specific to that implementation, which directs you to the language-specific commissioning procedures for MOBY Service Provider, Central or Client systems, under that given language binding. If you are an administrator of a database or computational service that you wish to share in the MOBY work, consult the "Service_Provider" documentation. If you are interested in developing user applications or interfaces to the MOBY world, the "Client" documentation is all you need. In both cases, you may not need to set up your own MOBY Central, as there may be existing public MOBY Central servers to which you can register your new services or that your new client can query. However, should you wish to set up your own Central, instructions are provided under each language binding.