FAIRsharing record for: BioCatalogue

This FAIRsharing record describes: The BioCatalogue provided a common interface for registering, browsing and annotating Web Services to the Life Science community. Services in the BioCatalogue could be described and searched in multiple ways based upon their technical types, bioinformatics categories, user tags, service providers or data inputs and outputs. They were also subject to constant monitoring, allowing the identification of service problems and changes and the filtering-out of unavailable or unreliable resources. The system was accessible via a human-readable ‘Web 2.0’-style interface and a programmatic Web Service interface. The BioCatalogue followed a community approach in which all services can be registered, browsed and incrementally documented with annotations by any member of the scientific community.