NBIC Practical Course on Web Services and Workflow Management

December 11-13, 2007; Transitorium, Wageningen University

The aim of this course is to provide the participants with a working knowledge of web services and workflow managment tools. Therefore the programme offers a number of lectures followed by hands-on sessions. Each day will be closed by a scientific talk on a pratical real-life application of web services in bioinformatics. NBIC
The course is organised by:
  • Jack Leunissen (WUR, NL)
  • Maurice Bouwhuis (SARA, NL)
  • Harm Nijveen (WUR, NL)
  • Pieter Neerincx (WUR, NL)
 
Speakers / lecturers
  • Edward Kawas (UBC, CA. BioMOBY project lead developer.)
  • Frank Terpstra (UVA, NL)
  • George Moulton (UMan, UK. myGrid/Taverna team)
  • Harm Nijveen (WUR, NL)
  • Machiel Jansen (SARA, NL)
  • Marco Roos (UVA, NL)
  • Mark Wilkinson (UBC, CA. Founder of the BioMOBY project.)
  • Mark Fiers (WUR, NL)
  • Pieter Neerincx (WUR, NL)
  • M. Scott Marshall (UVA, NL)
  • Stian Soiland (UMan, UK. myGrid/Taverna team)
 
 

Prerequisites / participation

Participants are required to have a good working knowledge (hands-on experience / "fluency") in Java and/or Perl (optionally Python).
The number of participants is limited to 14 persons, determined by the number of PCs available in the course room. A maximum of 28 persons can be accommodated as long as participants are prepared to work in pairs. Selection of participants will be on basis of their association to the NBIC BioAssist or BioRange programmes. Other participants may be admitted on basis of availability and programming experience.

Language

Lectures and course material will be in English.

Location

PC-room 27, Transitorium (building 312), Dreijenlaan 3, Wageningen. Follow this link for directions how to get there.

Accomodation

For those who want to stay overnight in Wageningen, a (limited) number of single and double-occupancy rooms have been reserved at the WICC hotel (www.wicc.nl).

Registration fee

The registration fee for the workshop is € 750. This covers media, lunches, and a maximum of two nights at the WICC. Upon acceptance of the registration you will be sent an invoice. Please note: registration is not final until the payment has been received!
BioAssist project members (i.c. scientific programmers) can participate free of charge.

Registration is closed!

More information

For more information, please contact Jack Leunissen (jack DOT leunissen AT wur.nl). 		 

Course schedule:

Day 1

What are web services (and what not)

10:00-10:45
Registration & coffee
10:45-11:00
Welcome by the local organiser
Jack Leunissen
11:00-12:00
Pieter Neerincx
L
12:00-12:30
Harm Nijveen
P
12:30-14:00
LUNCH
14:00-14:30
Protocols: XML, SOAP, WSDL and RDF
Machiel Jansen & Pieter Neerincx
L
14:30-15:00
Harm Nijveen
L
15:00-15:30
Tracing web service requests
Harm Nijveen
P
15:30-15:45
BREAK
15:45-16:30
Frank Terpstra
L
16:30-17:30
Mark Fiers
T

Day 2

Workflow management

09:30-10:00
George Moulton
L
10:00-12:30
George Moulton & Stian Soiland
P
12:30-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-14:30
Building pipelines using Taverna (continued)
George Moulton & Stian Soiland
P
14:30-15:30
Stian Soiland
L
15:30-16:00
BREAK
16:00-17:00
Text mining in VLE ( Intro, Demo)
Semantic Web Services
Marco Roos & M. Scott Marshall
T

Day 3

Writing and discovering services
09:30-10:30
Mark Wilkinson
L
10:30-12:30
Edward Kawas
P
12:30-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-15:00
Building a web service (using MoSeS); building a workflow (continued)
Edward Kawas
P
15:00-15:30
Asynchronous services and scalability
 Machiel Jansen
L
15:30-16:00
BREAK
16:00-16:45
Pieter Neerincx
T
16:45-17:00
Wrapping-up ...
Jack Leunissen
17:00-18:00
Closing and drinks

L = lecture; P = practical/hands-on session; T = talk/presentation
Last update: 10-Dec-2007 (Lab. of Bioinformatics/JL)
 Laboratory of Bioinformatics, WUR