MAPI: towards the integrated exploitation of bioinformatics Web Services.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Bioinformatics is commonly featured as a well assorted list of available web resources. Although diversity of services is positive in general, the proliferation of tools, their dispersion and heterogeneity complicate the integrated exploitation of such data processing capacity.

Results

To facilitate the construction of software clients and make integrated use of this variety of tools, we present a modular programmatic application interface (MAPI) that provides the necessary functionality for uniform representation of Web Services metadata descriptors including their management and invocation protocols of the services which they represent. This document describes the main functionality of the framework and how it can be used to facilitate the deployment of new soft

SUBMITTER: Ramirez S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3219744 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature