BioCatalogue

{{Short description|Life science catalogue}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{infobox biodatabase

| title = BioCatalogue.

| logo = 300px

| description = The Life Science Web Service Registry

| center = Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester

| citation = Bhagat et al

| url = http://www.biocatalogue.org

}}

The BioCatalogue is a curated catalogue of Life Science Web Services.{{Cite journal | last1 = Bhagat | first1 = J. | last2 = Tanoh | first2 = F. | last3 = Nzuobontane | first3 = E. | last4 = Laurent | first4 = T. | last5 = Orlowski | first5 = J. | last6 = Roos | first6 = M. | last7 = Wolstencroft | first7 = K. | last8 = Aleksejevs | first8 = S. | last9 = Stevens | first9 = R. | last10 = Pettifer | doi = 10.1093/nar/gkq394 | first10 = S. | last11 = Lopez | first11 = R. | last12 = Goble | first12 = C. A. | title = BioCatalogue: A universal catalogue of web services for the life sciences | journal = Nucleic Acids Research | volume = 38 | issue = Web Server issue | pages = W689–W694 | year = 2010 | pmid = 20484378 | pmc =2896129 }}{{Cite journal

| last1 = Afzal | first1 = H.

| last2 = Eales | first2 = J.

| last3 = Stevens | first3 = R.

| last4 = Nenadic | first4 = G.

| title = Mining semantic networks of bioinformatics e-resources from the literature

| doi = 10.1186/2041-1480-2-S1-S4

| journal = Journal of Biomedical Semantics

| volume = 2

| issue = Suppl 1

| pages = S4

| year = 2011

| pmid = 21388573

| pmc =3105496

| doi-access = free

}} The BioCatalogue was launched in June 2009 at the Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology Conference. The project is a collaboration between the myGrid project at the University of Manchester led by Carole Goble and the European Bioinformatics Institute led by Rodrigo Lopez.{{Cite book | last1 = Missier | first1 = P. | title = 2010 6th World Congress on Services | last2 = Wolstencroft | first2 = K. | last3 = Tanoh | first3 = F. | last4 = Li | first4 = P. | last5 = Bechhofer | first5 = S. | last6 = Belhajjame | first6 = K. | last7 = Pettifer | first7 = S. | last8 = Goble | first8 = C. | author-link8 = Carole Goble| chapter = Functional Units: Abstractions for Web Service Annotations | doi = 10.1109/SERVICES.2010.21 | pages = 306–313 | year = 2010 | isbn = 978-1-4244-8199-6 | s2cid = 24558725 | url = https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/publications/functional-units-abstractions-for-web-service-annotations(278fb195-f2f0-4757-9959-67e147dac889).html }}{{Cite journal

| last1 = Goble | first1 = C.

| author-link1 = Carole Goble

| last2 = Stevens | first2 = R.

| author-link2 = Robert David Stevens

| last3 = Hull | first3 = D.

| last4 = Wolstencroft | first4 = K.

| last5 = Lopez | first5 = R.

| title = Data curation + process curation=data integration + science

| doi = 10.1093/bib/bbn034

| journal = Briefings in Bioinformatics

| volume = 9

| issue = 6

| pages = 506–517

| year = 2008

| pmid = 19060304

| doi-access = free

}}{{Cite journal | last1 = Belhajjame | first1 = K. | last2 = Embury | first2 = S. M. | last3 = Paton | first3 = N. W. | last4 = Stevens | first4 = R. | author-link4 = Robert David Stevens| last5 = Goble | first5 = C. A. | author-link5 = Carole Goble| title = Automatic annotation of Web services based on workflow definitions | doi = 10.1145/1346337.1346239 | journal = ACM Transactions on the Web | volume = 2 | issue = 2 | pages = 1–34 | year = 2008 }} It is funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.{{cite web |url=http://www.bbsrc.ac.uk/pa/grants/AwardDetails.aspx?FundingReference=BB/F01046X/1 |title=Award details BB/F01046X/1 - Web Services 4 Life Sciences: A Curated Catalogue of Life Science Web Services |access-date=2012-06-21}}

The BioCatalogue is based on an open source Ruby on Rails codebase like its sister project, myExperiment.