Semi-automatic discovery of web services driven by user requirements
DEXA'10 Proceedings of the 21st international conference on Database and expert systems applications: Part I
Semantically-guided workflow construction in Taverna: the SADI and BioMoby plug-ins
ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part I
Workflow composition and enactment using jORCA
ISoLA'10 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Leveraging applications of formal methods, verification, and validation - Volume Part I
Bioinformatics applications discovery and composition with the mobyle suite and mobylenet
RED'10 Proceedings of the Third international conference on Resource Discovery
jORCA and magallanes sailing together towards integration of web services
JBI'10 Proceedings of the 10th Spanish conference on Bioinformatics for Personalized Medicine
Semantic annotation of image processing tools
Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Intelligence, Mining and Semantics
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Motivation: In addition to existing bioinformatics software, a lot of new tools are being developed world wide to supply services for an ever growing, widely dispersed and heterogeneous collection of biological data. The integration of these resources under a common platform is a challenging task. To this end, several groups are developing integration technologies, in which services are usually registered in some sort of catalogue to allow novel discovering and accessing mechanisms to be implemented. However, each service demands specific interfaces to accommodate their parameters and it is a complicated task linking the different service inputs and outputs to solve a biological problem. Results: In this work we address the design and implementation of a versatile web client to access BioMOBY compatible services (a system by which a client can interact with multiple sources of biological data regardless of the underlying format or schema) using the service description stored in the BioMOBY catalogue. The automatic interface generator significantly reduces developing time and produces uniform service access mechanisms. The design and proof of concept (for such a client) including the generic interface generator have been developed and implemented in the National Institute for Bioinformatics in Spain. Availability: The INB (National Institute for Bioinformatics, Spain) platform is available at www.inab.org/MOWServ Contact: ots@ac.uma.es Supplementary information: http://www.inab.org/Help/Main/index.html