Web services are fundamental building blocks for Service Oriented Architectures and Grid computing that are applied in many scientific domains such as bioinformatics. We have designed and implemented a multi-protocol and multifunctional Web service that supports today’s most important industry standards. We show an actual implementation of a bioinformatics database application: HitKeeper, that is now enhanced by programmable Web services interfaces as well as HTML-form based Web access. In this way, a wide range of biologists and bioinformaticians are addressed. We also satisfy an important recent requirement in the e-science community.
Index Terms:
Web services, SOAP, REST, bioinformatics
Citation:
Marco Pagni, J? Hau, Heinz Stockinger, "A Multi-protocol Bioinformatics Web Service: Use SOAP, Take a REST or Go with HTML," ccgrid, pp.728-734, 2008 Eighth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID), 2008