<s>
BioMOBY	B-Language
is	O
a	O
registry	O
of	O
web	O
services	O
used	O
in	O
bioinformatics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
allows	O
interoperability	O
between	O
biological	O
data	O
hosts	O
and	O
analytical	O
services	O
by	O
annotating	O
services	O
with	O
terms	O
taken	O
from	O
standard	O
ontologies	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMOBY	B-Language
is	O
released	O
under	O
the	O
Artistic	B-License
License	I-License
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
stemmed	O
from	O
a	O
conversation	O
between	O
and	O
Suzanna	O
Lewis	O
during	O
a	O
Gene	O
Ontology	B-Language
developers	O
meeting	O
at	O
the	O
Carnegie	O
Institute	O
,	O
Stanford	O
,	O
where	O
the	O
functionalities	O
of	O
the	O
Genquire	O
and	O
Apollo	O
genome	O
annotation	O
tools	O
were	O
being	O
discussed	O
and	O
compared	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Funding	O
for	O
the	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
project	O
was	O
subsequently	O
adopted	O
by	O
Genome	O
Prairie	O
(	O
2002-2005	O
)	O
,	O
Genome	O
Alberta	O
(	O
2005-date	O
)	O
,	O
in	O
part	O
through	O
Genome	O
Canada	O
,	O
a	O
not-for-profit	O
institution	O
leading	O
the	O
Canadian	O
X-omic	O
initiatives	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
two	O
main	O
branches	O
of	O
the	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
Moby	O
project	O
defines	O
three	O
Ontologies	B-Language
that	O
describe	O
biological	O
,	O
biological	O
,	O
and	O
bioinformatics	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Most	O
of	O
the	O
interoperable	O
behaviours	O
seen	O
in	O
Moby	O
are	O
achieved	O
through	O
the	O
Object	O
(	O
data-format	O
)	O
and	O
Namespace	O
(	O
data-type	O
)	O
ontologies	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
example	O
,	O
Genbank	O
has	O
"	O
gi	O
"	O
identifiers	O
that	O
are	O
used	O
to	O
enumerate	O
all	O
of	O
their	O
sequence	O
records	O
-	O
this	O
is	O
defined	O
as	O
"	O
NCBI_gi	O
"	O
in	O
the	O
Namespace	O
Ontology	B-Language
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
MOBY	O
is	O
an	O
ontology	B-Language
consisting	O
of	O
IS-A	O
,	O
HAS-A	O
,	O
and	O
HAS	O
relationships	O
between	O
data	O
formats	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
An	O
XML	O
serialization	O
of	O
this	O
ontology	B-Language
is	O
defined	O
in	O
the	O
Moby	O
API	O
such	O
that	O
any	O
given	O
ontology	B-Language
node	O
has	O
a	O
predictable	O
XML	O
structure	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Thus	O
,	O
between	O
these	O
two	O
ontologies	B-Language
,	O
a	O
service	O
provider	O
and/or	O
a	O
client	B-Protocol
program	I-Protocol
can	O
receive	O
a	O
piece	O
of	O
Moby	O
XML	O
,	O
and	O
immediately	O
know	O
both	O
its	O
structure	O
,	O
and	O
its	O
"	O
intent	O
"	O
(	O
semantics	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
is	O
aware	O
of	O
the	O
Object	O
,	O
Namespace	O
and	O
Service	O
ontologies	B-Language
,	O
and	O
thus	O
can	O
match	O
consumers	O
who	O
have	O
in-hand	O
Moby	O
data	O
,	O
with	O
service	O
providers	O
who	O
claim	O
to	O
consume	O
that	O
data-type	O
(	O
or	O
some	O
compatible	O
ontological	O
data-type	O
)	O
or	O
to	O
perform	O
a	O
particular	O
operation	O
on	O
it	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMOBY	B-Language
does	O
not	O
,	O
for	O
its	O
core	O
operations	O
,	O
utilize	O
the	O
RDF	O
or	O
OWL	B-Language
standards	O
from	O
the	O
W3C	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Nevertheless	O
,	O
the	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
system	O
exhibits	O
what	O
can	O
only	O
be	O
described	O
as	O
Semantic	O
Web-like	O
behaviours	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
controls	O
the	O
valid	O
data	O
structures	O
in	O
exactly	O
the	O
same	O
way	O
as	O
an	O
OWL	B-Language
ontology	I-Language
defines	O
an	O
RDF	O
data	O
instance	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
BioMOBY	B-Language
Web	O
Services	O
consume	O
and	O
generate	O
,	O
the	O
structure	O
of	O
which	O
is	O
defined	O
by	O
the	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
such	O
,	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
Web	O
Services	O
have	O
been	O
acting	O
as	O
prototypical	O
Semantic	O
Web	O
Services	O
since	O
2001	O
,	O
despite	O
not	O
using	O
the	O
eventual	O
RDF/OWL	O
standards	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
,	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
does	O
utilize	O
the	O
RDF/OWL	O
standards	O
,	O
as	O
of	O
2006	O
,	O
for	O
the	O
description	O
of	O
its	O
,	O
,,	O
and	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Increasingly	O
these	O
ontologies	B-Language
are	O
being	O
used	O
to	O
govern	O
the	O
behaviour	O
of	O
all	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
functions	O
using	O
DL	O
reasoners	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
are	O
several	O
client	B-Protocol
applications	I-Protocol
that	O
can	O
search	O
and	O
browse	O
the	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
registry	O
of	O
services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
One	O
of	O
the	O
most	O
popular	O
is	O
the	O
Taverna	B-Application
workbench	I-Application
built	O
as	O
part	O
of	O
the	O
MyGrid	O
project	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
first	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
client	O
was	O
,	O
written	O
in	O
2001	O
to	O
allow	O
access	O
to	O
the	O
prototype	O
version	O
of	O
BioMoby	B-Language
Services	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Gbrowse	O
Moby	O
,	O
in	O
addition	O
to	O
being	O
a	O
BioMoby	B-Language
browser	O
,	O
now	O
works	O
in	O
tandem	O
with	O
the	O
Taverna	B-Application
workbench	I-Application
to	O
create	O
SCUFL	O
workflows	O
reflecting	O
the	O
Gbrowse	O
Moby	O
browsing	O
session	O
that	O
can	O
then	O
be	O
run	O
in	O
a	O
high-throughput	O
environment	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
applet	O
also	O
provides	O
the	O
ability	O
to	O
export	O
a	O
session	O
history	O
as	O
a	O
Taverna	O
workflow	O
,	O
in	O
what	O
constitutes	O
a	O
programming	B-Application
by	I-Application
example	I-Application
functionality	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Given	O
a	O
starting	O
point	O
,	O
it	O
will	O
discover	O
,	O
and	O
execute	O
,	O
every	O
possible	O
BioMOBY	B-Language
service	O
and	O
provide	O
the	O
results	O
in	O
a	O
clickable	O
interface	O
.	O
</s>
