Biomoby & Taverna

AFAIK: Biomoby is a web service , ontology-based (?), for bioinformatics where a central repository which contains the adresses of web services for computational biology. Taverna is a kind of visual pipeline performing some complex bioinformatics tasks.

A few monthes ago, Egon introduced me Taverna and now the latest issue of BMC Bioinformatics contains a paper titled "Seahawk: moving beyond HTML in Web-based bioinformatics analysis": the paper contains many references to the BioMoby project and to Taverna. Seahawk is a Java applet that allows a naïve user to:

• Load text, HTML, Rich Text, or MOBY XML files from their local disk or a Web site
  
• Select all or part of the data displayed (by highlighting or using hyperlinks)
  
• Discover then execute services for the selected data
  

The interface consists of tabbed pane of documents, with MOBY analysis options displayed via popup menus.

BioMoby is indeed something I need to learn: is there anybody in the region of the Evry Genopole, or the UVSQ who could introduce me those technologies ? Thanks a lot.