This document provides an update on the Mobyle bioinformatics web portal project. Mobyle aims to provide access to bioinformatics command line tools via a web interface with an emphasis on usability, extensibility, and maintainability. New features include MobLinks for linking related resources, viewers for data visualization, and workflow designers for assembling analyses. Upcoming work involves improving installation processes, supporting additional computing systems, and validating web interfaces. The document encourages attendees of the conference to learn more about Mobyle through posters and presentations.

1. Mobyle Bioinformatics Web Portal
project update
Hervé Ménager
BOSC – July 9th, 2010

2. What is Mobyle?
● a bioinformatics analysis Web portal.
● provides an access to bioinformatics command
line tools via a web interface.
● emphasis on:
● usability for biologists,
● extensibility for developers,
● maintainability for server administrators

3. What is Mobyle for users?

4. What is Mobyle for service providers?

5. New: MobLinks
http://www.crbip.pasteur.fr

6. What's next: “viewers”

7. What's next: workflows
BCBB Workflow Designer:
http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/mobyleWorkflow/

8. What's next: build your interface
BCBB Mobyle Interface Designer
http://exon.niaid.nih.gov/BMID/

9. New and Next,
Miscelaneous...
● installer
● misc. tools (interface validation and deployment,
etc.)
● performance improvements
● Support for OpenID (thanks to O. Sallou from GenOuest)
● Support for more Resource Management Systems,
SGE, Torque, LSF via execution plugins (DRMAA)

10. Want to learn more?
● Come see our posters
● Poster Z07 - Mobyle Platform: Bioinformatics applications from
command-line to web-based workflows and services
● Poster Z13 - MobyleNet: user-centered large spectrum service
integration over distributed sites.
● Technology Track session:
● Mobyle: An integrated bioinformatics platform for performing web-
based analyses
on Monday, room 306, 11:45->12:10
B. Néron, H. Ménager, C. Maufrais, N. Joly, J. Maupetit, S. Letort, S. Carrere, P.
Tuffery, and C. Letondal Mobyle: a new full web bioinformatics framework
Bioinformatics Advance Access published on November 15, 2009, DOI
10.1093/bioinformatics/btp493. Bioinformatics 25: 3005-3011.

11. Thanks

12. Questions?