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Bioinformatics Advance Access originally published online on May 21, 2009
Bioinformatics 2009 25(16):2090-2091; doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btp329
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An active registry for bioinformatics web services

S. Pettifer 1,*, D. Thorne 1, P. McDermott 1, T. Attwood 1, J. Baran 1, J. C. Bryne 2, T. Hupponen 3, D. Mowbray 1 and G. Vriend 4

1School of Computer Science, The University of Manchester, UK, 2Computational Biology Unit, Bergen Center for Computational Science, Bergen, Norway, 3CSC, the Finnish IT Center for Science, Espoo, Finland and 4Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics, University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  Abstract

Summary: The EMBRACE Registry is a web portal that collects and monitors web services according to test scripts provided by the their administrators. Users are able to search for, rank and annotate services, enabling them to select the most appropriate working service for inclusion in their bioinformatics analysis tasks.

Availability and implementation: Web site implemented with PHP, Python, MySQL and Apache, with all major browsers supported. (www.embraceregistry.net)

Contact: steve.pettifer{at}manchester.ac.uk

Associate Editor: Alex Bateman

Received on February 25, 2009; revised on April 28, 2009; accepted on May 17, 2009

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