Web API for biology with a workflow navigation system

Autor:	Hideaki Sugawara, Yeondae Kwon, Yoshikazu Kuwana, Yasumasa Shigemoto
Rok vydání:	2009
Předmět:	Internet medicine.medical_specialty Articles Biology computer.software_genre Web API Workflow engine Workflow technology World Wide Web User-Computer Interface Web page Genetics medicine Web navigation Web service Databases Nucleic Acid computer Web modeling Software Workflow management system
Zdroj:	Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN:	1362-4962 0305-1048
DOI:	10.1093/nar/gkp300
Popis:	DNA Data Bank of Japan (DDBJ) provides Web-based systems for biological analysis, called Web APIs for biology (WABI). So far, we have developed over 20 SOAP services and several workflows that consist of a series of method invocations. In this article, we present newly developed services of WABI, that is, REST-based Web services, additional workflows and a workflow navigation system. Each Web service and workflow can be used as a complete service or a building block for programmers to construct more complex information processing systems. The workflow navigation system aims to help non-programming biologists perform analysis tasks by providing next applicable services on Web browsers according to the output of a previously selected service. With this function, users can apply multiple services consecutively only by following links without any programming or manual copy-and-paste operations on Web browsers. The listed services are determined automatically by the system referring to the dictionaries of service categories, the input/output types of services and HTML tags. WABI and the workflow navigation system are freely accessible at http://www.xml.nig.ac.jp/index.html and http://cyclamen.ddbj.nig.ac.jp/, respectively.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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