Search for Gene Expression Images using any Gene Name

This is a simple workflow demonstrating how to integrate multiple linked data sources using restful services in Taverna.

In this workflow it first searches for all possible gene names for a query gene from FlyBase repository, an authorative genetic database for Drosophila research, and then it uses returned gene names to search for gene expression images from Oxford FlyTED image repository.

Two Restful services were used:

• One for retrieving all flybase features matching a querying gene name {name}: http://www.open-biomed.org.uk/service/flybase/features/name/{name};
• And another for retrieving all FlyTED image records that are associated with the query probe name {probe}: http://www.open-biomed.org.uk/service/flyted/records/probe/{probe}

Both services are part of the FlyKit toolkit and they are built using the Talis Puelia Linked Data API to expose a Restful service interface for Linked Data resources.

Some test input can be: schuy, Adh, or Act5C.