EU-SOL bioinformatics workshop March 10-14 Cologne

1. Program, Travel and Accommodation

The workshop will run from the morning of Monday, March 10th and finish by noon on Friday, March 14th. It
will take place at the MPIZ in Cologne, Germany, please see http://www.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de for travel
instructions. We will help in organizing hotel rooms.
The EU-SOL training budget will fund the running costs of the workshop, but you will need to finance your
travel, accommodation and subsistence from your partner's EU-SOL travel budget. If necessary, you can
reallocate funds within your budget, e.g. shifting personnel or consumable money to your travel budget.

2. What to expect from the workshop

Introduce web services and BioMoby

We will explain the advantages of BioMoby and demonstrate some of the applications.

Implement web services

We will train you in BioMoby, the interoperability technology proposed for EU-SOL bioinformatics
integration. At the workshop you will develop and deploy one or more web services in one or more possible
work environments (Java or Perl). You can use one of our workshop computers with all the functionalities
needed to deploy web services in a test environment. However, it is suggested you bring your own laptop so
that you can take home a functional working environment. We will contact participants with prerequisites,
available also here http://bioinfo.mpiz-koeln.mpg.de/araws/documentation/help/
In addition to implementing these basic test services, we would like to have you begin to develop services
specific for the data hosted at your site and its IT environment.
Thus, two other scenarios for setting up services during the workshop are also possible.
1. If not already possible, you should try to arrange full remote access both to your web server and data
repositories.
2. If you do not already have this, or cannot get it in place before the workshop, then you will have to use a test
setup e.g. on your own laptop where you install a web server and deploy services. This will mean that you will
have to transfer this to your home production systems on your own.

Use BioMoby to build workflows

We will train you in Taverna, a graphical user interface for designing and executing bioinformatics workflows.
This can be used to access the web services implemented in the workshop.

Build BioMoby clients

We will demonstrate how to access BioMoby web services from your applications or how to incorporate data
retrieved from BioMoby web services in web pages.

Web service security

We will introduce SSL-based access control to project-internal web services.

EU-SOL bioinformatics integration

All participants will present their work, data and resources within EU-SOL. We will identify opportunities for
integration, design appropriate web services, datatypes and workflows. We will discuss and plan deliverables
for the next project implementation plan.

3. How to participate

Send an email to schoof@mpiz-koeln.mpg.de by February 17th. In this email, please state
-the partner within EU-SOL you work for
-will you bring your own laptop?
-will you have remote access to your data and web server?
-do you preferentially work with Java or Perl?
-what nights you would like us to organize accommodation for you
Any comments, questions or suggestions.