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Table 1 Required metadata for service description and discovery.
| Required metadata for service description | |
|---|---|
| author contact | |
| authority identification | |
| service version | |
| software title or nature of algorithm (myGrid Task ontology) | |
| software version | |
| bandwidth and/or number of requests per minute | |
| example input | |
| example output and/or REGEXP to test output | |
| some description of error-handling capacity | |
| sync/async | |
| nature of underlying data | |
| organism | |
| biological nature of data (DNA/RNA/Protein, experimental methods or platform) | |
| input parameters and purpose of each | |
| output parameters and purpose of each | |
| usage/license restrictions | |
| authentication (whether required or not) | |
| usage statistics (as per service provider) | |
| usage statistics (as per third party commentary) | |
| protocol (Moby, SOAP, REST, GET, POST, etc.) | |
| mirror servers | |
| Ontologies that could provide the above metadata | |
| myGrid Ontology | provides many of the annotation information elements listed above |
| Moby Object | provides an ontology of data-types |
| Moby Service | similar to myGrid's bioinformatics_task branch of the myGrid Ontology |
