BOWS (bioinformatics open web services) to centralize bioinformatics tools in web services.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Bioinformaticians face a range of difficulties to get locally-installed tools running and producing results; they would greatly benefit from a system that could centralize most of the tools, using an easy interface for input and output. Web services, due to their universal nature and widely known interface, constitute a very good option to achieve this goal. RESULTS:Bioinformatics open web services (BOWS) is a system based on generic web services produced to allow programmatic access to applications running on high-performance computing (HPC) clusters. BOWS intermediates the access to registered tools by providing front-end and back-end web services. Programmers can install applications in HPC clusters in any programming language and use the back-end service to check for new job

SUBMITTER: Velloso H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4467627 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature