The myGrid ontology describes the bioinformatics research domain and the dimensions with which a service can be characterised from the perspective of the scientist. Consequently the ontology is logically separated into two distinct components, the service ontology and the domain ontology. The domain ontology acts as an annotation vocabulary including descriptions of core bioinformatics data [...]

Informatics applications that are available as web services are numerous and are growing in number. More service providers are supplying web service versions of their applications and more ‘legacy’ command-line and web page applications are being made available as web services via SoapLab and GowLab wrapping. Consequently, service discovery is becoming increasingly important. Feta is a [...]

Your services need to be annotated and added to our service repository. There are currently no tools for users to do it themselves, although such tools are now under development. Please contact the myGrid team via taverna-users@lists.sourceforge.net for help

Prior to Taverna 1.5.1, you can only do a simple text search on services names using the search tab above “Available Processors”. From Taverna 1.5 .1 onwards you can find services by exploiting their semantic annotations using Feta. Feta can retrieve services by name, type, task, inputs and outputs descriptions, etc. For more information on how [...]

myGrid uses ontologies for semantic service discovery (the myGrid ontology) and for managing process provenance (the workflow run ontology) Our ontologies have in general been authored in OWL using Protégé 4 The myGrid ontology is used within our service discovery tool, FETA. FETA allows services to be identified by their functions or properties, for example, inputs/outputs, underlying data [...]