BioCatalogue explained

BioCatalogue.
Description:	The Life Science Web Service Registry
Center:	Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester
Citation:	Bhagat et al
Url:	http://www.biocatalogue.org

The BioCatalogue is a curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services.^{[1] [2]} The BioCatalogue was launched in June 2009 at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference. The project is a collaboration between the myGrid project at the University of Manchester led by Carole Goble and the European Bioinformatics Institute led by Rodrigo Lopez.^{[3] [4] [5]} It is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.^[6]

The BioCatalogue is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase like its sister project, myExperiment.

Further reading

• Khalid Belhajjame, Carole Goble, Franck Tanoh, et al. Biocatalogue: A Curated Web Service Registry for the Life Science Community, Microsoft eScience conference 2008
• Goble CA and De Roure D Curating Scientific Web Services and Workflows EDUCAUSE Review
• BioCatalogue on Genomeweb
• BioCatalogue joins in the fight against cancer
• Curated catalogue of Web Services for the Life Science
• QuASAR: Quality Assurance of Semantic Annotations for Services

Notes and References

1. Bhagat . J. . Tanoh . F. . Nzuobontane . E. . Laurent . T. . Orlowski . J. . Roos . M. . Wolstencroft . K. . Aleksejevs . S. . Stevens . R. . Pettifer . 10.1093/nar/gkq394 . S. . Lopez . R. . Goble . C. A. . BioCatalogue: A universal catalogue of web services for the life sciences . Nucleic Acids Research . 38 . Web Server issue . W689–W694 . 2010 . 20484378 . 2896129 .
2. Afzal . H. . Eales . J. . Stevens . R. . Nenadic . G. . Mining semantic networks of bioinformatics e-resources from the literature . 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S4 . Journal of Biomedical Semantics . 2 . Suppl 1 . S4 . 2011 . 21388573 . 3105496 . free .
3. Book: Missier . P. . 2010 6th World Congress on Services . Wolstencroft . K. . Tanoh . F. . Li . P. . Bechhofer . S. . Belhajjame . K. . Pettifer . S. . Goble . C. . Carole Goble. Functional Units: Abstractions for Web Service Annotations . 10.1109/SERVICES.2010.21 . 306–313 . 2010 . 978-1-4244-8199-6 . 24558725 .
4. Goble . C. . Carole Goble. Stevens . R. . Robert David Stevens. Hull . D. . Wolstencroft . K. . Lopez . R. . Data curation + process curation=data integration + science . 10.1093/bib/bbn034 . Briefings in Bioinformatics . 9 . 6 . 506–517 . 2008 . 19060304 . free .
5. Belhajjame . K. . Embury . S. M. . Paton . N. W. . Stevens . R. . Robert David Stevens. Goble . C. A. . Carole Goble. Automatic annotation of Web services based on workflow definitions . 10.1145/1346337.1346239 . ACM Transactions on the Web . 2 . 2 . 1–34 . 2008 .
6. Web site: Award details BB/F01046X/1 - Web Services 4 Life Sciences: A Curated Catalogue of Life Science Web Services . 2012-06-21.