README

== BioCatalogue

The BioCatalogue is a Web application that provides a registry of Web services. It
has been originally designed as a registry of biological services but in reality
it is domain-independent and can be used for registering SOAP and REST services
from any domain.

The goals of the BioCatalogue are:

- Provide a single registration point for Web service providers and a single search
site for scientists and developers.
- Provide a curated catalogue of Web services.
- Providers, expert curators and users can provide oversight, monitor the catalogue
and provide high quality annotations for services.
- Provide a place where the community can find, contact and meet the experts and
maintainers of these services.

The BioCatalogue was a BBSRC-funded project and has been running since 1st June 2008.
The project was a joint venture between the University of Manchester (led by Carole Goble)
and the EMBL-EBI (led by Rodrigo Lopez).

The service is still running at http://www.biocatalogue.org and is maintained by the
University of Manchester.

You can read more about the project at https://www.biocatalogue.org/wiki/.

You can stand up your own instance of BioCatalogue by following the installation instructions at:
http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/servicecatalographer/Installation+Instructions+-+Production
http://dev.mygrid.org.uk/wiki/display/servicecatalographer/Installation+Instructions+-+Development