Mapping Web Services

Currently there are three different and independant web services which offer mappings of biological database identifiers:

• The BioMinT GPSDB Server: http://biomint.oefai.at/
  
• AliasServer: http://cbi.labri.fr/outils/alias/
  
• ProThesaurus: http://services.bio.ifi.lmu.de/prothesaurus

If you know any other web service or server let us know and add a comment.

BioSchemas

A new project was added to the Projects list: BioSchemas. It is about collaborative development of XML schemas for basic types and structures of biological data.

BioWeka.org

The web site for the BioWeka project is now online - including a Wiki-based documentation and tutorials web site. An initial release of BioWeka follows.

Martin

ProTag 1.2

The following changes were applied to ProTag 1.2:

• Instead of a Recheck document for Smart Tags verb there is now a Enable/Disable Smart Tagging verb to instantly enable and disable smart tagging with ProTag. Other Smart Tags are not touched by this setting, but the setting is legal for every Microsoft Office application. If enabled a recheck for Smart Tags is performed.
• The limitation in the search dialog is set as default to 100.
• The service links in the search dialog now point to more informative pages.
• An extensive tutorial is offered.
• ProTag is started automatically and put in background (task tray) when the user logs in. In addition a check for updates of ProTag is performed automatically on user log in. These features can be disabled via the configuration dialog.
• The setup now informs the user at the beginning of the installation process that administrator privileges are required.
• ProTag can be installed for every user and not only for the current user.
• The ProThesaurus and BeThesaurus home page have a more readable structure.
• The results within the search dialog are sorted per relevance.

Martin