Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on March 24, 2007
Bioinformatics 2007 23(9):1178-1180; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btm060
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Semantic Web Service provision: a realistic framework for Bioinformatics programmers
University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Sun Center of Excellence for Visual Genomics 3330 Hospital Drive NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 4N1
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Summary: Several semantic Web Services clients for Bioinformatics have been released, but to date no support systems for service providers have been described. We have created a framework (MobyServlet) that very simply allows an existing Java application to conform to the MOBY-S semantic Web Services protocol. Using an existing Java program for codon-pair bias determination as an example, we enumerate the steps required for MOBY-S compliance. With minimal programming effort, such a deployment has the advantages of: (1) wider exposure to the user community by automatic inclusion in all MOBY-S client programs and (2) automatic interoperability with other MOBY-S services for input and output. Complex on-line analysis will become easier for biologists as more developers adopt MOBY-S.
Availability: The framework and documentation are freely available from the Java developer's section of http://www.biomoby.org/.
Contact: gordonp{at}ucalgary.ca
Associate Editor: Jonathan Wren
Received on December 8, 2006; revised on January 13, 2007; accepted on February 14, 2007
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